BIO: Thomas Jefferson SUNDERLAND, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 822 & 823.
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  THOMAS JEFFERSON SUNDERLAND, a representative citizen and prosperous farmer of 
Bell township, came to his present place in 1878 and owns one of the well 
improved properties of this section.  He was born June 20, 1851, and is a son of 
Samuel and Harriet A. (Ellis) Sunderland.
  Samuel Sunderland was born February 4, 1822, and died March 30, 1906.  His 
father, David Sunderland, was born in 1792, and his mother, Sarah (McClellan) 
Sunderland, was born May 14, 1798 and died February 7, 1865.  Samuel Sunderland 
followed farming all his life, in the vicinity of Burnside, Clearfield county, 
after moving to this section.  He married Harriet A. Ellis, who was born March 
5, 1826, and died October 13, 1899.  Thomas J. Sunderland has three brothers:  
Samuel, a farmer in Indiana county; Harry and Daniel, residing at Mahaffey, Pa.
  Thomas J. Sunderland has devoted his life since his school days were over, to 
farming and working in the timber.  In 1878 he purchased his present farm from 
his father, a part of the old homestead, and has continued to improve it and 
develop all its possibilities along the line of careful and practical farming.
  Mr. Sunderland married Miss Mary Alice Baker, who was born March 28, 1851, 
near Mahaffey, Pa., a daughter of John and Susanna (Smith) Baker.  Mrs. 
Sunderland has one brother, Henry, who is a farmer near Banner Ridge.  To Mr. 
and Mrs. Sunderland the following children were born:  Henry, now deceased, who 
married Catherine DeHaven (they had five children); John, who is deceased; 
James, who married Sarah Bendt, lives in Bell township, and has two children; 
Samuel, who married Charlotte Ling, lives in Bell township and has one child; 
George, who is deceased, married Minnie Barrett (they live at Mahaffey and have 
two children); William, who lives at New Washington, married Eva Beam and has 
one child; Maud, who married F. Ruppert, a farmer in Bell township, and has two 
children; Harriet, who married Ward Smith, residing in Armstrong county, and has 
one child; Anna, who is now deceased; and Harry, who assists his father.  In 
politics Mr. Sunderland is a Republican and he has served as roadmaster of the 
township.