MR. C. W. RUTHERFORD
AND GEN. ROBERT E. LEE
Rutherford was highly educated, but didn’t take much interest in the
law. He was educated at Washington University (later Washington and Lee)
in Virginia. He was always a gambling and lively sort of fellow and he did
something that caused him to have to report to General Robert E. Lee in
his office. (This office is maintained just as he left it) General Lee was
President of the University. He talked to Rutherford a long time in a
kindly, soft-spoken, and fatherly way. Said, "I see you are from
Texas, and told him he had known many Texas boys, knew how they were, and
had always liked them. Finally, when discharged, probably rustled some
papers, the General said, "By the way, Rutherford, I believe, you are
charged with a minor infraction of one of our rules. I trust you won’t
let that happen again." Rutherford told him that he surely would not
and fairly worshiped him after that.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979
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