page_title: Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Lewis Morris Rutherfurd / Career
caption_attribution_description: Copy of glued-in frontispiece from Die chemischen Wirkungen des Lichts und die Photographie: in ihrer Anwendung in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Industrie by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, 1873.
context_page_description: Lewis Morris Rutherfurd was an American lawyer and astronomer, and a pioneering astrophotographer.
context_section_description: Soon after graduating from Williams, he began practicing law after being admitted to the bar in 1837 with William H. Seward, who eventually served as the United States Secretary of State, in Auburn, New York.  In practicing, he associated with Peter A. Jay, the eldest son of the first United States Chief Justice, John Jay, until his death in 1843.  At that point, he began working with Hamilton Fish, who also became a U.S. Senator and the U.S. Secretary of State.
caption: Moon, New York, 6 March 1865 – Lewis M. Rutherfurd (misspelled as Rutherford in this frontispiece of the 1873 book by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel)
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