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Sumner, William Hyslop – Sutherland, William A
Sumner, William Hyslop
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, author, was born July 4, 1780, in Roxbury. He was one of the original members of the Massachusetts Horticultural society. His works include An Inquiry into the Importance of the Militia; Observations on National Defence; Reminiscences (1854); Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts; Reminiscences of General Warren and Bunker Hill; History of East Boston; and Reminiscences of Lafayette's Visit to Boston. He died Oct. 24, 1861, in Jamaica Plains, Mass. a
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, 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.