RUTHERFORD

The original settler of Lot 35 Concession A, was Thomas Rutherford. He was born in the village of Ancrum in Scotland, near the town of Jedburgh, in 1812. His father was William Rutherford , gardener and gatekeeper for Sir William Scott the owner of the Ancrum estate... In 1834 he came to Galt, Ontario, with John Telfer who was recruiting settlers in the Border Country for William Dickson who owned most of the land in the Galt area at that time. Thomas also came out with his Uncle Hugh Rutherford and his family, among whom was Elizabeth, afterwards wife of Robert Elliot the original settler on Lot 38 Concession B, on the Lake Shore Line ( the Don Cianci farm )... For the next six years he was in the butchering trade while in Galt, but his first job on arriving in Galt was burying the dead of the cholera epidemic that was sweeping that part of Ontario in 1834.