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Title: A history of northeast Missouri
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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is education by attending thepublic schools of his district several months during the winter terms,while the summer months of his boyhood were spent in working on thehome farm with his father. At the age of twenty years he purchased atract of 320 acres of land, being assisted by his father on account of thehigh price (or what was then considered so) of six dollars per acre.Mr. Sutton still owns this half section of land, which he has developedfrom prairie land into highly productive farm property. While gettingthis land ready for crops, Mr. Sutton lived as a bachelor for three years,and when he was twenty-three years of age was married to Miss NettieC. Ball, who came from Bellflower, Montgomery county, INIissouri, andshe died April 10, 1906, leaving two children, namely: Leona, who mar-ried Will Hostetter, and resides near the home of her father; and Iota,born in 1903, who lives at home and is her fathers housekeeper. In addition to this Audrain county land, Mr. Sutton is the owner of
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y^^ve^4-v^y.^. HISTORY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI )323 thirty acres of mixed timber land located south of Farber, and has160 acres of irrigated land in the state of Colorado, where he raisesalfalfa, wheat and sugar beets. His owns mortgages in Colorado, and isinterested as a stockholder in the Bank of Fort Morgan, Morgan county,that state. In politics Mr. Sutton is a Democrat. He has never givenmuch time to public matters, being absorbed with his farm and businessinterests, but is always in favor of good government and supports what-ever measures he believes will work out for the best interests of thecommunity at large. His farm is conducted according to the latestimproved methods, giving convincing testimony to the thrift and goodmanagement of its owner. As a man who has done his share in develop-ing the great northwestern part of Missouri, Mr. Sutton is fully entitledto the respect in which he is universally held, while his many admirablequalities of mind and heart have earned him the si

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