Scope and Content Note MS, PrMS, PR, TS Correspondence, legal documents, military forms, receipts, promissory notes, and other items comprise Joseph Robinson Rutherford's papers. The papers pertain to family concerns; Company "A", Arkansas Home Guard Militia; carming, the sale of Seth Thomas clocks, and other business interests. Upon moving from Tennessee to Benton County, Arkansas in 1851, Joseph Robinson Rutherford began a varied career as farmer, businessman, politician and...