Sumter, Thomas – Suydam, James Augustus
Sumter, Thomas
soldier, diplomat, United States senator, was born July 14, 1736, in Virginia. He was a distinguished soldier of the American revolution, and was citizen of South Carolina. He was promoted, in 1780, from the office of colonel to that of brigadier general.
For his services he received the thanks of congress and the applause of his country. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793. In 1801 he was elected a senator in congress, serving until 1809, when he was appointed minister to Brazil. After spending two years abroad, he returned home and was again elected to the senate. He died June 1, 1832, near Camden, S. C.
Sumter, Thomas D
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1840 to 1843.
Sunderland, Jabez Thomas
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 11, 1842, in England. He is a distinguished clergyman of the unitarian church; the founder and editor of the Unitarian Monthly, and the author of A Rational Faith; What Is the Bible? The Liberal Christian Ministry; Home Travel in Bible Lands; The Bible: Its Origin and Place Among the Sacred Books of the World; and Orthodoxy and Revivalism.
Sunderland, La Roy
author, was born May 18, 1802, in Exeter, R. I. He was a writer who in early life was a zealous methodist preacher, and after 1845 an equally zealous opponent of Christianity, slavery, spiritualism, and mormonism. Among his writings are: History of South America; Book of Human Nature; Book of Psychology; The Trance, and How Introduced; Anti-Slavery Manual, and Mormonism Exposed. He died May 15, 1885, in Quincy, Mass.
Sunderland, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1821 in Terre Haute, Ind. After securing a large fortune, he engaged in the practice of his profession, and became chief justice of the supreme court of California. He died Oct. 9, 1886, in New York city.
Super, Charles W
educator, college president, author. He has attained success in educational work, and is now president of the Ohio university of Athens. He is the author of A History of the German Language from the Earliest Times to the Present Day; and other works.
Suplee, Thomas Danly
educator, author, was born April 17, 1846, in Philadelphia. He is an educator of New Jersey, and the author of Frank Muller, or Labor and Its Fruits; Pebbles from the Fountain of Castalia; Poems; Plain Talks; Riverside, a romance; and Civil Government under the United States Constitution.
Sutherland, George E
soldier, jurist, lecturer. For three years he served as a union soldier during the civil war, and was promoted to major. In 1886 he moved to Milwaukee, where he was elected superior judge.
Sutherland, Jabez G
lawyer, was born Oct. 6, 1825, in Onondaga county, N.
Y. In 1849 he settled in Saginaw City, Mich., and was made prosecuting attorney for that county, and in 1853 was elected to the state legislature. In 1863 he was elected circuit judge of the tenth circuit, and was re-elected to the same position in 1869 without opposition. In 1870 he was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Sutherland, Joel B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1791 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Philadelphia county, Pa., from 1827 to 1837. He diea Nov. 15, 1861, in Philadelphia.
Sutherland, Josiah
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-second congress, and was subsequently a judge of the supreme court of the state.
Sutherland, Roderick Dhu
lawyer, congressman, was born April 27, 1862, in Scotch Grove, Iowa. He was elected county attorney in Nebraska in 1890; and re-elected in 1892 and 1894.
He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist.
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Nebraska at Nelson; and while in congress served on a number of important committees.
Sutherland, William A
lawyer, was born May 30, 1849, in Hopewell, N. Y.
He was counsel for the republican state committee in the celebrated senatorial election cases in 1891, and in the contest against the re-appointment of 1892.
In 1894 he was one of the counsel in the Lexow committee of the state senate which investigated the affairs of New York city. This successful lawyer is prominent-in political affairs, and practices law in Rochester, N. Y.
Sutliffe, Albert
poet, was born about 1830 in Meriden, Conn. He first became known as a writer of verse for the National Era, Washington, D. C., and in 1854 was a contributor to the Genius of the West, at Cincinnati. He published a volume of poems in 1859.
Sutro, Adolph Heinrich Joseph
mining engineer, was born April 29, 1830, in Germany. In 1860 he planned the now famous Sutro tunnel through the heart of the mountain in Nevada, where lay the Comstock lode; and in 1879 the great tunnel was finished and its projector became a millionaire many times over. He was mayor of San Francisco, and has filled numerous public positions of honor.
Sutro, Otto
merchant, musician, was born Feb. 24, 1833, in Prussia. In 1868 he decided to engage in the piano, organ and music and musical merchandise business in Baltimore, Md., which business he is still connected with.
Sutro, Theodore
lawyer, author, was born March 14, 1845, in Prussia. From 1875 to 1880 he was employed as attorney for the Sutro Tunnel company of Nevada; and published a book entitled The Sutro Tunnel Company and the Sutro Tunnel.
Sutter, Daniel
merchant, was born Dec. 16, 1830, in Mount Holly, N. J. For forty-five years he was identified with the business interests of Philadelphia, Pa., and for thirty-two years was the senior member of the firm of Sutter and Miller, rubber merchants, retiring from active business in 1896, and has since resided in the place of his nativity. For twenty-five years he has been a bank director, and still continues in that capacity; also retaining an interest in various other corporations as director, treasurer and stockholder. He stands high in Masonry, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, and is a member of the Pennsylvania Historical society, and the Horticultural, Colonial and Genealogical societies of that state; and also a member of the Union league, Trades league and other associations in Philadelphia.
Sutter, John Augustus
pioneer, was born Feb. 15, 1803, in Baden. In 1834 he settled in St. Louis, Mo., and in 1838 crossed the Rocky Mountains. He subsequently went to Sitka, Alaska, and in 1839 founded the first white settlement on the site of Sacramento. He received a large tract of land from the Mexican government, and in 1841 built a fort, and was appointed governor of the northern frontier country. He died June 17, 1880, in Washington, D. C.
Sutton, a. Lincoln
lawyer, legislator, was born June 21, 1866, in Oregon, Wis. He is one of the foremost lawyers. of the west, and resides in South Omaha, Neb. He has been justice of the peace; served two terms in the Nebraska state legislature with distinction; has been county commissioner, Omaha, and filled. various other public positions of trust.
Sutton, Cicero Holt
lawyer, jurist, was born in Batesville, Ga. In 1843. he was admitted to the bar; was justice: of the inferior court in 1846, and received the re-election in 1848, and since 1847 has lived in Clarkesville, Ga. During 1851-55 he served two terms as probate judge of his county, and in 1865 was elected judge of the county court; and in 1876 and again in 1880 was appointed to that position by the governor. ernor. He has won distinction as an able lawyer and jurist.
Sutton, Jay W
lawyer, business man, was born Sept. 10, 1858, in Romeo, Mich. In 1881 he was admitted to the bar. He has been secretary of the Soo Mutual Building and Loan association since its organization in 1888; and in 1897 was elected state banker for two years by the Modern Woodmen of America. He takes a deep interest in the public affairs of Michigan at Sault Ste.
Marie; and is prominent in various fraternal orders.
Sutton, William Bell
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Feb. 12, 1849, in Indiana, Pa. He was judge of Oneida county, N. Y. He subsequently moved to Kansas where he has attained prominence as an able lawyer, and member of the Kansas house of representatives.
Sutton, William Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 11, 1835, in Haddonfield, N. J. He received his education at the Dickinson college of Carlisle, Pa.; the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn.; and the Albany Law school. He has been school director and a state senator in the Pennsylvania legislature; and was instrumental in introducing and passing many improvements in statutory law. He has declined nominations for judge of court of common pleas and for congress, preferring the practice of law, in which he has been eminently successful, both in criminal and common law. He is a ready speaker, but as a brilliant lawyer of Philadelphia he is most distinguished.
Suydam, James Augustus
artist, was born March 27, 1819, in New York.
His best known work is a characteristic landscape painting known as Long Island Shore. He died Sept. 15, 1865, in North Conway, N. H.