Lake-Rush County IN Archives Biographies.....Sutton, Emerson Otto 1859 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

EMERSON OTTO SUTTON.

    Emerson Otto Sutton is a representative of one of the oldest and most
representative families of west Lake county, and in his life vocation of
agriculture and in the discharge of those responsibilities which fall to the lot
of every substantial and public-spirited American he has shown himself a man of
perfect integrity and solidity of character well befitting one of his family name.

    He was born in Rush county, Indiana, December 6, 1859, and is the sixth in a
family of eight children, four sons and four daughters, born to Gabriel F. and
Almeda (Hall) Sutton. Seven of these children are still living, named as
follows: Festus, who is a prosperous farmer and stockman of West Creek township,
and whose biography will be found on other pages of this history; Maggie, wife
of William Smith, a retired farmer of Lowell; Mary, wife of Frank A. Hayden, a
resident of Kankakee county, Illinois; John, a farmer of West Creek township:
Emerson O.; Grant, a farmer of Jasper county; and May, who resides on the old
home with her mother and brother Otto.

    Mr. Gabriel F. Sutton, the father of this family, was a factor of great
importance in the life of Lake county and a man whose influence will not soon be
lost to the world in which he lived. He was born near Connersville, Indiana, and
was reared to farming life and educated in the common schools. He was throughout
life a man of sound judgment and substantial character, and was successful in
whatever he undertook. He followed teaching in this state for a number of years.
He was an old-line Whig during the early part of his political career, and later
upheld the banner of true Republicanism. He died about 1900, and his remains are
interred in the Lowell cemetery, where his devoted wife and children have
erected a beautiful monument sacred to his memory. He and his wife were members
of the Christian church at Lowell. He had begun life in Rush county with very
little capital, and at his death his estate comprised three hundred and
twenty-five acres in Lake county and six acres in the village of Lowell, with
one hundred and forty acres in Jasper county, besides personal effects, and was
valued at forty thousand dollars. The ancestry of this honored citizen is traced
back to old England.

    Mr. Otto Sutton was reared in Lake county, receiving his education in the
public schools, although he is indebted mainly to his own efforts and personal
application for the training and insight into practical affairs of the world. He
has always resided on the parental homestead, and since his father's death his
mother and sister have continued to live with him. He was happily married on
Christmas day of 1903 to Miss Maggie Einspahr. She is a native of West Creek
township, and comes from one of the prominent German-American families of the
township, being a lady who stands high in the social scale. She was educated in
both the German and the English languages.

    Mr. Sutton is a stanch Republican, cast his first vote for James A.
Garfield, since which time he has never faltered in his allegiance to the party.
He has been selected as a delegate to the county conventions, and is a member of
the district committee. He affiliates with Castle Hall Lodge No. 300, Knights of
Pythias, at Lowell.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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