Thomas Sutton and Ella P. Hildebrand

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Husband Thomas Sutton ^{1 2}

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           Born: 3 May 1854 2
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         Father: John Sutton (1814-1877) 2 3
         Mother: Agnes Mary Walker (      -1898) 2 3

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       Marriage: 22 Oct 1878 4

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Wife Ella P. Hildebrand ^{1 4}

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         Father: Edward P. Hildebrand (1820-1889) 1 4 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Woods (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Edward H. Sutton ⁴

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2 F John S. Sutton ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Sutton

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He was reared in the borough of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and obtained his early education in the public schools there. In 1870 he entered the sophomore class of the university at Princeton, where he took the full three years' course, graduating in 1873. Returning home, he then took up the study of law with John P. Blair, afterward president judge, and was admitted to the bar of Indiana County at the spring term of 1876. In the autumn of that year he entered Columbia Law School, New York City, to take a special course of studies, from which he was called home a year later by his father's last illness. Shortly after his father's death he began the practice of law, spending about one year in the office of Silas M. Clark, afterward a member of the State Supreme court, making a specialty of collections and the settlement of estates, in which lines he had a very large patronage.
In 1878 he became a member of the Chilled Car Wheel Manufacturing Company, which changed its name in 1883, becoming Sutton Bros. & Bell, and later again changed to Indiana Foundry Company, Limited, of which he became the president. In company with his brother John W. Sutton he owned the strawboard mill, the one in which his father was formerly interested, the partnership being known as John W. Sutton & Bro. He was a member of the Indiana Chemical Company, Limited, organized in 1887, and was secretary of that concern, whose works were located on the Indiana branch railroad until it went out of business. Fifteen men were employed in the manufacture of wood alcohol, acetate of lime and charcoal in large quantities. Mr. Sutton was also a stockholder in the First National Bank, was a director of that institution from 1881 to 1887, president from 1886 to 1887, served as its attorney from 1884 to 1888, and elected again as director in 1911. He was also president of the Keystone Printing Company of Pittsburgh, incorporated in 1911, and vice president of the Roanoke Valley Orchards, Inc., of Salem, Virginia.
Mr. Sutton's property holdings include valuable real estate centrally located in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota.
He served his borough as member of the council and auditor, and took a deep interest in the progress and welfare of the normal school, of which he was treasurer from 1878 to 1883, when he was elected a trustee, and served as secretary of the board of trustees till 1899, at that time succeeding A. W. Wilson as president of the board. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and took an active interest in the Sunday school. He was ruling elder of the church from 1879 to 1890.
He was one of the organizers in 1879 of the Shakespeare Club, one of the leading social and literary societies of the town, and was its permanent president for many years.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 341.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 602.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 344.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 603.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 170.