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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.