BeelzeDub....That info confirms what I independently found in the 1930 census, that Mary Rutherford was first married in 1890.
VM...If you send me a PM with your email, I'll send the gif image as an attachment.
ohiocowboy....Thanks for the lead...I should be able to find more info, especially if Malcolm was a professional.
Another interesting thing about the 1930 census is that her
next-door neighbors, the
Swains (Mr.
Roy A. Swain and Mrs.
Carolyn R. Swain, with 4 children), were from Missouri and New York. Roy himself was from Missouri and his wife Carolyn was born in New York, and the four children were born in New York. So, like J. F. Rutherford himself (and probably Mary), Roy Swain moved from Missouri to New York, and like Mary Rutherford moved to live in Monrovia, Los Angeles. I wonder if the Swains were friends of Mary or were fellow Bible Students. Anyone know anything about the Swains?
I also found Mary's listing in the 1920 census. The copy is less legible so I can't read the age very accurately but it doesn't give her middle initial, but the listing does indicate the father as German and the mother as French, so I think it is the same person. In this earlier census, her address is given as something like 1256 N. Eastlake Avenue, but the copy is so illegible it is hard to tell what the numbers are supposed to be. But it is pretty clear that the address is "Eastlake" and not "Primrose". Might have the street changed its name?
On edit: I found Roy A. Swain's obituary
here. It says that he died in 1939 at his home in Monrovia, and that he married Miss Carolyn G. Yost in New York City in 1906. Anyway, it looks like they were probably not associated with the Watchtower.....it says that the Swains left New York in 1908 to Newton Falls where Mr. Swain had a position with the Newton Falls Paper Co., and then moved to Los Angeles by 1910 to become superintendent of the Cylinder Paper Co., only to then move to Illinois and then back to California in 1916. Since 1921 he was the West Coast representative for the L. L. Brown Paper Co. Nothing about his religion, but it looks like he moved around because of business. I wonder where the WTS got their paper from, but anyway it looks like the Swain's association with Missouri and New York might be a coincidence....