Russell Richardson

Russell Richardson was the president of the Richardson & Rutherford company in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the late nineteenth century.

Richardson was born in Watertown, New York, on March 20, 1885. He moved with his parents to Aurora, Illinois, in 1843. In the Civil War he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After the war he became a manufacturer of sashes, doors, and blinds in Montgomery, Illinois, and then in 1874 joined with C. J. L. Meyer of Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois, in the same trades. In 1880 he joined R. McMillen & Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin in a similar business.

Richardson removed to Little Rock in 1886 where he began a construction material manufacturing and lumber concern under the name Richardson & Rutherford at the intersection of Sixth and Center streets. By the late 1880s the plant employed forty men.

References

• Goodspeed's History of Pulaski County, Arkansas (1889).