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Summary
This Image was of 'Judge'Joseph Franklin Rutherford who succeeded Charles Taze Russell when Bro. Russell died touring the South West of the United States in Late Oct.1916. Russell dies on Oct. 31,1916 and Joseph Franklin Rutherford became the second man to become the President of the Watchtower Tract and Bible Society.This Image can be found in a "Watchtower Publication" entitled Jehovah's Witnesses-Proclaimers Of God's Kingdom, compiling the earlier years prior to 1993 By the Watchtower Bible & Track Society.J.F.Rutherford was a comely foreboding looking man who as gentle as they came, had a bearing of 6'2" and weighed 225 pounds at this time. Some object to his title of Judge but there are several cases where he served on the Bench in MO. He served under the tuteledge of JUDGE E.L.Edwards in.On May 5, 1892 he was granted a license to judge for the courts of the 14 Judicial Circuit in Mossouri and Judge Rutherford became Public Prosecutor for the for Booneville Mo. Still, later he served on occasion as a special judge in the 8th Judicial district Court of Moussouri. This is what led him to become labeled as "Judge" Joseph Rutherford, as title worked for.