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Crockett (SAMUEL RUTHER- FORD a Scotch)

SAMUEL RUTHER- FORD, a Scotch novelist; born in Little Duchrae, Galloway, in 1860. He was a tutor and university pupil-teacher at an early age; but a volume of verse, "Dulce Cor," and "The Stickit Minister," volume of prose stories, showed literature to be his vocation. "The Raiders ," "Mad Sir Ughtred of the Hills," "The Lilac Sun-Bonnet," "The Men of the Moss Hags," "Sweetheart Travelers," "Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City," "The Grey Man," "The Moss Troopers" (1912), CRESUS "Sandy's Love Affair" (1913), are among his books. He died April 18, 1918.