Biographical Sketch of A. J. Sutton - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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A. J. Sutton, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Andrew County, MO.,
was born in Virginia on March 13, 1831.  He is the son of Baylie and
Sallie (Worley) Sutton.  The father was born in North Carolina in 1794,
and was the son of John Sutton, a native of England, who immigrated to
America at an early day.  He has followed farming as a life vocation,
and is now a resident of kentucky, to which State he removed in 1862.
The mother was born in North Carolina, in about 1791, and was the 
daughter of John Worley.  She died in 1886.  They were the parents of
fourteen children, of whom A. J. was the fifth.  He was reared on the
farm, and attended the common schools in Virginia, acquiring only a
limited education.  He left home at an early age, going with an elder
brother to Madison County, KY.  In 1852 he immigrated to Clay County,
MO., and engaged in farming.  Residing there until the fall of 1867, 
he made a trip to Nebraska, and the following spring purchased a farm
near Atchison, KS., where he remained for about seven years, and then
removed to Andrew County, MO., and began farming in Clay Township, 
where he purchased a large tract of land.  He next removed to St. 
Joseph, MO., and remained a year.  Purchasing a large farm in Holt 
County, he lived there for three years, and then returned to St. Joseph.
Three years later he came to Savannah, where he had purchased the old
Waterman place, which is a beautiful farm of 280 acres, bordering on 
the town.  He has a handsome brick residence surrounded by beautiful
grounds, and this is considered on the the most desireable homesteads
in Andrew County.  For years he has been engaged in breeding and 
handling fine cattle, and has also dealth successfully in real estate.
He owns a half interest in a drug store at Newport, MO.  His aggregate
possessions amount to more than $50,000.  He has always occupied a 
high and influential position in the esteem of his fellow citizens,
and has attended several State and county conventions as a delegate
from his county.  In 1873 he was elected, as a Democrat, to represent
Atchison County, KS., in the State Legislature, overcoming a large
Republican majority.  He was married May 17, 1851, to Adaline Moran,
born in Madison County, KY., in 1830, and the daughter of James D.
Moran.  They had five children, three of whom are living.  His wife
died November 13, 1861.  He then married Rachel V. Smith, who was born
in Tennessee, in 1831, and is the daughter of Jacob Smith.  To this
union six children have been born, all of whom are living.