Mildred Lewis Rutherford

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Mildred Lewis Rutherford taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens from 1880 to 1928, serving as principal of the school for twenty-two of those years. A prominent member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and an advocate for the "Lost Cause" interpretation of the Civil War, Rutherford also published a number of books on southern history.

Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.

Mildred Lewis Rutherford

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