SUTTON, G. T.

SUTTON, QUERY, GEORGE, KIRK

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Date: 7/2/2004 at 16:42:51

Biography reproduced from page 281 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

G. T. Sutton, of the law firm of Quarton & Sutton, is a son of T. W. and Deborah (Query) Sutton, born in Adams Co., Ohio, May 14, 1854. His father was born in Ohio, in 1819. He removed to Wayne Co., Iowa, in 1858 and followed farming. His death occurred in February, 1878. His mother was born in Ohio in 1826, and and died June 10, 1859. On Aug. 28, 1863, his father was again married. This time to Frances George. She survives Mr. Sutton, and now lives at Promise City, Iowa, having married William Kirk in 1883. The subject of this sketch followed farming during his early life, until seventeen years of age, when he taught school that winter, farmed the next summer for his father; taught the next winter, and in the spring of 1873, entered Oskaloosa College. After leaving that college he again taught school and farmed, thereby laying up enough money to enable him to finish his collegiate education, which he accomplished, graduating in 1881. Every dollar that he spent in procuring his education was earned by his own exertions. In the summer of 1881 he took a trip through Iowa and Nebraska. In the fall of the same year he taught school at Beacon, Iowa, being the principal. About this time he began to read law; and after his school was out, entered the law office of John F. Lacey, In Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1882. On the 1st day of January, 1883, he came to Algona and formed a partnership with W. B. Quarton. The firm is building up a substantial and lucrative practice, and their prospects for the future are of the brightest. Mr. Sutton is a staunch republican of the “Jim” Blaine type. Mr. Sutton’s father was a whig. His grandfather served in the War of 1812, and his great-grandfather in the War of the Revolution.