Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Sutton, James D. 1833 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JAMES D. SUTTON. There are few more representative citizens to be found in
Tuscola County, than this gentleman whose portrait appears on the opposite page
and whose farm is one of the finest within the limits of Almer Township. It was
purchased by him in December, 1890, and comprises two hundred and one acres of
land, highly fertile and well cultivated. Upon the estate may be noticed a
conveniently arranged and comfortable residence, good barns and the necessary
machinery for carrying on the farm. The career of Mr. Sutton has been signalized
by arduous toil, and his present prosperity is the just reward of years of effort.

  Mr. Sutton traces his ancestry to England, where his grandfather Benjamin
Sutton, was born and whence he emigrated to the United States prior to the War
of 1812, in which he served. He pursued the calling of a farmer in New York,
where he died. The names of his children were as follows: Thomas, Thomas
(second), Abram, Nehemiah, Jacob, Benjamin, Jr., Hiram, Byron, Ira, James,
Daniel, William, Nathaniel, Luther, Polly and Lucretia. The father of our
subject was Nehemiah Sutton, a native of New York and a shoemaker by trade. In
his early manhood he married Ellen Settle, a native of New York, and they became
the parents of eleven children, namely: Jacob V., Hiram, Martha, Margaret,
Henry, Ellen, James D., Charles H., Jane A., Rachel M. and Jemima.

  The political belief of Nehemiah Sutton led him into affiliation with the
Democratic party. Accompanied by his family, he removed about 1836 from New York
to Munson Township, Geauga County, Ohio, and also lived for a short time in Van
Buren County, this State. He went to Texas on a visit and there died at the age
of sixty-six years. His wife survived him until the fall of 1876, when she died
in Tuscola County, this State, at the age of seventy-eight years. She was an
estimable woman, whose worth of character found high appreciation in the various
communities where she resided.

  James D. Sutton was born August 23, 1833, in Franklin County, N. Y., and
received his education in the common schools and in Chester (Ohio) Seminary.
When eleven years old he started out in life for himself and for two years
remained in the employ of a merchant in Wyandotte County, Ohio. When fourteen
years of age he received $9 per month, working in the summer and attending
school in the winter. In September, 1853, he came to Michigan, the journey
westward being made from Cleveland to Detroit by water, by rail to Pontiac,
thence by stage to Flint, and taking Walker's line to Indian fields Township,
Tuscola County. His first purchase of land comprised one hundred and twenty
acres on section 12, Almer Township, and to that property he removed in 1855.
After clearing and improving the place he added thereto forty acres which he
also improved. In March, 1883, he moved to Caro where he resided until December,
1890, and then came to the place where he now lives.

  For twenty-one years Mr. Sutton has been Superintendent of the Poor of the
county, and has filled this responsible position satisfactorily. He is a
Republican in politics and has served in various offices in the township.
Socially he is a leading Mason and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. April 19, 1855, Mr. Sutton was married to Miss Eliza A. Ingraham, who
was born in New York and was the daughter of Luther and Maryette (Horr)
Ingraham, early settlers in Oakland County. By this marriage our subject became
the father of five children—Amelia, Rachel, James L., Lovina and Lovisa. Mrs.
Eliza Sutton died December 23, 1880, and two years later our subject was married
to Martha M., daughter of William and Martha E. (McDavid) Burlingame, of Fair
Grove. Two children have blessed their union—Ralph and Charles. Mrs. Sutton and
the other members of the family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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