Biographies:  Andrew Judson SUTHERLAND, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Andrew Judson Sutherland, one of the well known lawyers of Eau Claire, is 
a native son of Wisconsin, having been born in London, Dane county, this 
state, April 28, 1856.  His parents, Andrew and Catherine (McVicar) 
Sutherland, who were natives of New Brunswick, Canada, settled in Eau 
Claire county in 1856, the same year our subject was born, and located in 
the town of Union, where the father purchased 240 acres of wild land, which 
he cleared and improved, making one of the banner farms of the township.  
He lived to the ripe age of 87 years, and died in 1909.  His widow, mother 
of our subject, is now (1914) still living at the age of 90 years.  They 
reared a family of nine children as follows:  Christinia, married Angus 
McVicar; Peter, George, Charles, John, Andrew J., Flora M. (became the wife 
of Austin H. Langdell), Margaret and Neal Sutherland.

Mr. Sutherland was reared on the homestead farm, spending his boyhood days 
in much the same way as do most farmer boys, attending the district school 
and assisting in the farm work.  Deciding to enter upon the career of a 
lawyer, he entered the law department of the State University, at Madison, 
and was graduated with the class of 1884.  Soon after his graduation he 
opened an office in Eau Claire for the practice of his profession, in which 
he has since successfully continued.

On November 30, 1884, Mr. Sutherland married Mary Brown, daughter of Henry 
and ? (Baker) Brown, of Cambia county, Pennsylvania, and has four children,
Mary Elsie, wife of Rollen Alcott; Laura Edith, Bessie Irene and Judson 
Clair.  Mr. Sutherland is a member of the First Baptist Church, of which 
his mother is the only survivor of the original members.  Politically Mr. 
Sutherland is a democrat.  He was a candidate for Congress on the democratic 
ticket in 1914 for the tenth district.        

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 287.