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The campaign of 1840 was one of great popular interest. Martin Van Buren was nominated by the Democratic party for a second term, and General William Henry Harrison was nominated by the Whigs. Hickory poles were raised in all parts of the county by the Democrats, all of them flying the national flag, while the Whigs raised white-oak poles, on almost all of which there could be seen in miniature the log- cabin and barrel of hard cider. Popular day-meet- ings characterized the canvass, and the voters were thoroughly aroused. The exciting spirit of the can- vass reached the school-children in some localities. A Harrison pole was raised by the pupils of the public school at Jeffersonville ; but it excited the indignation of the Democratic men of the neighbor- hood, and the pole was cut down in the night-time by persons unknown to the patriotic Harrison boys. The following was one of the sixty-six resolutions and sentiments proposed as toasts, and published as a part of the proceedings of a public meeting held at Flourtown on the 17th of September, 1840, showing the temper of the men and times :
" Resolved, That we view with contempt the plan of electioneering car- ried on by the Federal Whigs of the day. Instead of arguments in favor of Harrison, they amuse their followers with log cabin shows Instead of discussing the principles of their candidate, they administer hard cidler to their partisans and exhibit ceon-skins in order to fool the people."
At this meeting the Hon. John B. Sterigere, then State Senator, was gravely criticised by his constit- uents for his official conduct. We quote again from one of the nine toasts of censure proposed at the meeting. It was offered by John L. Garren :
"John B. Sterigere, Senatorial Representative from Montgomery ; with the question of dividends by the banks at this time on the one hand and the Democracy of his county on the other, it was pull Dick, pull devil, but the devil being the stronger, Dick had to yield to the devil, and he, the devil, pocketed the dividends."
The following gentlemen were nominated by their respective parties for public office in 1840 :
Democrat .- Congress, Fitth Congressional District, Joseph Fornance, Esq .; Senate, John B. Sterigere, John L. Pearson (Montgomery, Chester aud Dela- ware constituting the Senatorial district); Assembly, Ephraim Fenton, William B. Hahn, William Bean ; Sheriff, Jacob Spang ; Commissioner, MIehelm Mc- Glathery ; Director, Isaac Schneider; Auditor, David Evans ; Coroner, Andrew Hess.
Whig .- Congress, Robert T. Potts ; Senate, Abra- ham Brower, John T. Iluddleson ; Assembly, Amos Schultz, James A. Pennypacker, Abraham Slifer ; Sheriff, Adam Stetler ; Commissioner, Evan Jones ; Director, Abraham Hunsicker; Auditor, Jonas Boorse ; Coroner, Eli G. McCarter. The aggregate vote polled was 8301, and the whole Democratic ticket was elected by majorities in the county of from five to eight hundred. The Senatorial district being Whig, Abraham Brower and John T. Huddleson were elected Senators, thic majority in Chester and Delaware for them exceeding that of Montgomery for Mr. Sterigere and Mr. Pearson. Daniel Jacoby was the Democratic Presi- dential elector and Robert Stinson the Whig Presi- dential elector, the aggregate vote polled being 8937, there being 626 more votes polled than at the October election of the same year. The official returns show that the Abolition ticket polled 11 votes in the county, making the total vote 8948. The population of the county by the census of 1840 was 47,241.
The relative condition of political parties in Mont- gomery County seems to have been unaffected by the victory of the Whigs in the election of General Harri- son to the Presidency in 1840. The reorganization of the Democratic party after the election of Governor Ritner and the defeat of Wolf and Muhlenberg placing young and active men in the lead, gave them a strong hold upon public confidence, and for many years afterward they retained control in a large measure of public affairs in the county. The highest majority of the Democratic party for a State officer polled in the county was for Francis R. Shunk, in 1847, being 1918,-total vote, 8864. This majority was exceeded in 1856 for James Buchanan, being 2029 on a total vote in the county of 12,244, divided as fol- lows: Buchanan, 7134; Fremont, 2845; Fillmore, 2845. The Whigs elected their candidate for sheriff twice during the period from 1850 to 1860. At the election held October 12, 1852, Michael C. Boyer was elected sheriff over Jacob Fisher by a majority of 467. At the election held October 12, 1858, John M. Stauffer was elected sheriff over Samuel E. Hartranft by a majority of 432.
The period from 1850 to 1860 was characterized by
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political agitations of the most serious nature. The TREASURER. repeal of the compromise measures in reference to the Nathao Wagonhurst (Dem.). 7.480 C. Todd .Jenkins ( Rep.) . . 7,474 extension of human slavery filled the North with the gravest apprehensions and hastened the culmination JURY COMMISSIONER. of events ending in a long and sanguinary war for the , Stanley L. Ogden (Dem.) . . 7,475 preservation of the Union. The story of the national conflict, although a part of the history of the people in every part of the Union, cannot be told in these chapters. Partisanship became fierce and the creation of a new political party, the Republican party, based upon hostility to the extension of slavery and its ulti- mate extinction in the United States, brought forth the strongest efforts of the Democratic party to defeat GOVERNOR. the men and measures of the new organization. Public Jolin F. Ilartranft ( Rep.) . Simon B. Chase (Temp.). .. 8,453 sentiment ripened by 1860. The State election re- sulted in the choice of Andrew G. Curtin for Governor by a majority of 32,164 in a total vote of 492,642. AAggregate vote .. 16,076 The revolution in Pennsylvania was an accomplished JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. fact. The Presidential election, which occurred a James Thompson (Det.) . . 8,47 Ulysses Mercur ( Rep.) . . . >,453 Joseph Henderson (Temp.) . 56 month later the same year, exhibits the following results : Lincoln (Republican), 268,030; Fusion ticket (Democratic), 178,871 ; Douglas (Democratie), AUDITOR-GENERAL. 16,765; Bell (Union), 12,776,-total vote, 476,442. William Ilartley (Hem.) . . 8,454 Harrison Allen (Rep.) . . . 8,411 Lincoln majority over all, 59,681. The total vote was Barr Spangler (Temp.) . . . 65 16,200 less at the Presidential election than at the election for Governor, while Lincoln's majority over CONGRESSMEN-AT- LARGE. all opposition was 27,517 greater than that given Andrew G. Curtin for Governor, indicating a default in the Democratic vote. The result of the election in Montgomery County was: Lincoln (Republican), Lemuel Todd (Rep. ) 8,494 5826; Fusion (Democratic), 5590; Douglas (Demo- G. F. McFarland (Temp.) . 64 cratic), 509; Bell (Union), 609,-total votes polled, A. J. Clark (Temp.) 64 12,615. Lincoln's majority over the Democratic R. Rush ( Temps.). 64 Fusion ticket, 236.
Four years later, when all the political elements hostile to the Republican party had crystalized and were united in support of General MeClellan against Mr. Lincoln for a second term, the vote in Montgomery County was as follows : For McClellan, 7772; soldier vote for MeClellan, 171,-total, 7943. For Lincoln, 6504; soldier vote for Lincoln, 368,-total, 6872. McClellan's majority, 1071.
A large number of Democrats who voted for Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860 gave a prompt and hearty support to the administration of President Lincoln, and subsequently united with the Republican party, while on the other hand the Whigs and Native Americans, who supported Bell, largely united with the Democratic party, thus enabling it to maintain its control of public affairs. In 1870 the vote for county officers was as follows :
ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
Hiram C. Hoover (Dem.) . . 7,424 Charles Rntter (Rep.). ... 6,448 STATE SENATOR.
Benjamin W. Jones (Dem.). . 7,471 Henry S. Evans (Rep.) . . . 6,214
ASSEMBLY.
John J. C. Harvey (Dem.) . 7,480 Oliver G. Morris (Dem.). . . 7,446
John W. Schall (Rep.) .. . 6,497 Robert Gray (Rep.). . ... 6,440
COMMISSIONER.
Dennis Dunne (Dem.) . . . 6,931 William F. Reed (Rep.). . . €,800
DIRECTOR.
Henry Kneedler (Dem.) . . 7.470 John Jarrett, .Jr. (Rep.) . . 6,441
AUDITOR.
William Gilbert (Demn.) .. . 7,477 Isaac T. Dnnnet (Rep.) .. . 6,445 SURVEYOR.
D. F. Reinert (Fem ). . 7,433
Alan W. Corson (Rep.). . . 6,476
Isaac L. Shoemaker (Rep.). . 6,465 Total vote polled 14,280
In the election of 1871 the Democratic majority fell to about eight hundred, and in 1872 the Repub- licans carried their whole ticket with the exception of one member of the Assembly. The official vote was as follows for State and county election, 1872:
REGISTER OF WILLS.
Joseph 1. Beyer (Dem.). . . 8,30I Septimus Roberts (Rep.) . . 8,496 John Harley (Temp.) . . . . 60
RECORDER OF DERUS.
Charles H. Paliner (Dem.) . 8,413
George W. Neiman (Rep.). . 8,434 William M. Gorden (Temp.).
('LERK OF COURTS.
Augustus Dettra (Dem.). . . 8,362
Merrit M. Missimer (Rep.) . $,504 Joseph B. Powell (Temp.) . 67
COUNTY TREASURER.
George (. Reiff (Dem.) . . . 8,440
Samuel F. Jarrett (Rep.) . . 8,461
Amos Ely (Temp. ) . . 67
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
Michael B. Sholl (Dem.). . 8,406 John T. Comley (Rep.). . . 8,479 Thomas Graham (Temp.) . . 68
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR.
George Grater (Iem.). . . . 8,329 Henry R. Bertolet (Rep.) . . 8,501 William Hallowell (Temp.).
COUNTY AUDITOR.
George W. Shriver (Đem.) . 8,40] Benjamin B. Hughes (Rep.), 8,472 William H. Wampole (Temp.) 72
CONGRESS.
Sixth Congressional District, inclui- ing Montgomery and Lehigh Counties.
James S. Birry (Rep.) . . . 8,47> William H. Wittie (Dem.) . 4,840 Ephraim L. Acker (Dem.) . 3,573
ADDITIONAL LAW JUDGE.
Seventh Judicial District, Montgomery and Bucks Counties.
Charles T. Miller (Rep.) .. 15,626 Stokes L. Roberts (Dem.) . 15,374 Elijah Thomas (Temp.). . . 56
In the Fifth Judicial District Charles T. Miller received 234 votes; Stokes L. Roberts, 560; and Elijah Thomas, 1.
At the Presidential election November 5, 1872,
1 Public interest in the subject of national legislation was evidently deemed of more importance than State or municipal affairs, as the vote for Republican Congressmen-at-large was the largest polled, and having a majority of 71 votes in the county.
Charles R. Buckalew (Dem.) 8,463
Richard Vaux (Đent.) . . . 8,416 James Il. Hopkins (Đem.) . 8,416 Herrick B. Wright (Dem.) . 8,417 (Heuni W. Schofield ( Rep.) . 8.498 ('harles Albright ( Rep.) .. . 8,495
MEMBERS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CON. VENTION, 1873-74.
James Boyd (Dem.). .... 8,313 Charles Huasicker (Dem.) . 8,287 George N. Corson (Rep.) . . $,332 Henry A. Ilunsicker (Temp.) 352
Wm. P. Cnthbertson (Temp.) 93
Joseph Krx (Dem.). . 166
Daniel Mulvany (Rep.) . ..
ASSEMBLY.
Oliver G. Morris (Dem.) . . 8,433 Jolin A. Andrew (Dem.) . . 8,205 William B. Roberts (Rep.) . 8,326 Sammel E. Nyce . Rep.) . . . 8,469 J. C. Michner (Temp.) ... IN3
Samuel B. Dewis (Temp.) . . 67
PROTHONOTARY.
Philip Quillman (Dem.) . . . 8,423 William F. Reed (Rep.). . . 8,44)
Samnel R. Fisher (Temp.) . 66
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U. S. Grant (Republican electors) received 8080 votes, and Horace Greeley (Democratic electors) 5113.
1873 .- William A. Yeakle, Republican, was elected State Senator by thirty majority; total vote, 13,848. Thomas Rutter and Joseph B. Yerkes, Democrats, were elected Assemblymen by majorities of 197 and 139 votes. Samuel F. Jarrett, Republican, was elected county treasurer by a majority of 158 votes. Edward D. Johnson, Republican, was elected county commissioner by a majority of 405 votes. William Gilbert, Democrat, was elected auditor by a majority of I vote. Total vote polled, 13,946.
1874 .- The Democrats elected their Assemblymen, district attorney, sheriff, commissioner, director of the poor, coroner and auditor by majorities rang- ing from two to eight hundred votes. Jacob V. Got- wals, the Democratic candidate for district attorney had a majority of 810. Samuel F. Jarrett, Republi- can, was for the third time elected connty treasurer by a majority of 12 votes.
1875 .- John F. Hartranft, Republican candidate for Governor, carried the county by a majority of 25 votes on a total vote polled of 16,947. Philip Quill- man, Democrat, was elected prothonotary by a ma- jority of 756 votes. Franklin T. Beerer, Democrat, was elected clerk of the conrts by a majority of 234 votes. Colonel John W. Schall, Republican, was elected recorder of deeds by a majority of 10 votes. Solomon Snyder, Democrat, was elected register of wills by a majority of 160 votes. Under the provi- sions of the Constitution of 1874 the principle of minority representation in the board of county com- missioners became operative. The Democratic and Republican parties each placed two candidates in nomination, the highest three to be elected. The fol- lowing is the official vote, November 2, 1875: Charles M. Soliday, Democrat, 8367; George Erb, Demo- crat, 8385; Amos D. Moser, Republican, 8365; Ed- win Moore, Republican, 8234; William Gilbert and Frederick Wagoner, Democrats, were elected county auditors ; Henry D. Wile, Democrat, was elected director of the poor; and Charles K. Aiman, Demo- crat, was elected county surveyor by majorities rang- ing from 8 to 236. Total vote, 16,819.
The total vote polled in 1876 was 19,039. The Democratic majority for Presidential electors was 269. Jones Detwiler, Democrat, was elected State Senator by a majority of 168 votes; Montgomery S. Longaker, Francis M. Knipe, John C. Richardson, James B. Law and Edwin Hallowell, Democrats, were elected Assemblymen by majorities ranging from 158 to 276; Martin Ruth, Republican, was elected director of the poor by a majority of 175 votes.
1877 .- The aggregate vote polled in the county was 15,660. The Democrats elected J. Wright Apple district-attorney, Jacob Tyson sheriff, Evan G. Jones county treasurer, John Field director of the poor and Harry B. Long coroner, by majorities ranging from 231 to 851.
1878 .- The aggregate vote polled was 18,598. The local canvass was thoroughly made by both parties. Lewis Royer, Republican, was elected State Senator by a majority of 113. The vote for Assemblymen was as follows,-Democratic : Montgomery S. Long- aker, 8839; Edwin Hallowell, 9153; John C. Danne- hower, 9152; Mahlon S. Sellers, 9202; Matthew O'Brien, 8851. Republicun : John W. Fair, 8772; C. Tyson Kratz, 8848; William F. Hallman, 9051; William B. Roberts, 9119; Isaac Hoyer, 9110.
Hallowell, Dannehower, Sellers, Roberts and Hoyer were elected. A. Franklin Hart, Democrat, was elected prothonotary ; John W. Schall, Republican, was elected recorder of deeds; Henry S. Smith, Re- publican, was elected clerk of the courts ; Warren B. Barnes, Democrat, was elected register of wills; Jesse B. Davis and Noah D. Frank, Democrats, were elected commissioners ; John O. Clemens, Republican, was elected director of the poor; Charles Slingluff and William Davis, Democrats, were elected au- ditors; and Charles K. Aiman, Democrat, was elected surveyor. Judge Henry P. Ross was a Democratic candidate for justice of the Supreme Conrt, and car- ried the county by a majority of 782.
1879 .- The only county officers elected for 1879 were director of the poor and jury commissioner. The vote was as follows,-Director of the Poor: Daniel Slinler, Democrat, 6986 ; Abraham K. Anders, Repub- lican, 6713. Jury Commissioner: William H. H. MIc- Crea, Democrat, 6862; Davis S. Sill, Republican, 6820.
1880 .- The total vote polled was as follows : Repub- lican electors, 11,026; Democratic, 11,025 ; Greenback, 75; Temperance, 37,-total, 22,163.
James A. Garfield carried the county by 1 vote. The canvass was conducted with great zeal, and the vote polled was unprecedentedly large. The follow- ing was the result: Irving P. Wanger, Republican, was elected district attorney by a majority of 50 votes; Joseph Frankenfield, Republican, was elected sheriff by a majority of 154 votes; Jacob R. Yost, Democrat, was elected county treasurer by a majority of 1 vote; John A. Righter, Republican, was elected director of the poor by a majority of 36 votes; and Samuel Aikens, Republican, was elected coroner by a majority of 143 votes.
1881 .- The aggregate vote was 18,388. Henry P. Ross, Democrat, was elected president judge for a second term by a majority of 1126; John McLean, Democrat, was elected prothonotary by a majority of 43; Henry W. Kratz, Republican, was elected re- corder of deeds by a majority of 429 votes; Edwin Schall, Democrat, was elected clerk of the courts by a majority of 756; J. Roberts Rambo, Republican, was elected register of wills by a majority of 7 votes; James Burnett and Hiram Burdan, Republicans, were elected county commissioners; John O. Clemens, Republican, was elected director of the poor by a majority of 373; John H. Bergey and Isaac Cassel,
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Republicans, were elected county auditors ; and Joseph W. Hunter, Republican, was elected county surveyor by a majority of 294 votes.
1882 .- Aggregate vote polled 20,507.
GOVERNOR.
ASSEMBLY.
Robert E. Pattison (Dem.) . 10,578
Theodore M. Harrar (Dem.) 10,784
James A. Beaver (Rep.) . . 9.288
Stephen D. Yerkes (Dem.) . 10,624
T. Armstrong (Greenback) . 87 Lewis I. Davis (Dem.). . . 10,598
A. C. P'ettit (Temp.). . . PRESIDENT JUDGE.
B. Markley Boyer (Dem.). . 10,604 Charles II. Stinson (Rep.) . 9,903
STATE SENATOR.
W. Henry Sutton (Dem.). . 10,532
Francis Houston (Rep.) . . 9,702
William B. Rambo (Rep.) . 9,999
Richard Markley (Rep.) . . 9,658
Daniel Shuler, Democrat, was elected director of the poor by a majority of 709.
1883 .- The aggregate vote polled was 19,386. John H. Bickel, Democrat, was elected district attorney by a majority of 206 votes ; Edwin Stahlnecker, Republi- can, was elected sheriff by a majority of 247 ; Henry A. Cole, Democrat, was elected county treasurer by a majority of 93; Henry S. Lowry, Republican, was elected director of the poor by a majority of 144 votes; and Samuel Aikens, Republican, was elected coroner by a majority of 148 votes.
HON. W. HENRY SUTTON, the present Representa- tive from Montgomery County in the State Senate, was born in Haddonfield, Camden Co., N. J., September 11, 1835. Ile comes of a worthy line of ancestors, the first of whom came to this country from England about the time of William Penn. His father, Rev. Henry Sutton, was for many years a faith- ful minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and acceptably served at a number of places in the New Jersey and Philadelphia Conferences. In 1832 he married Miss Ann Craig, daughter of James Craig, who came from Ireland and settled in Philadel- phia. She was a noble woman, a true wife, a devoted mother and a Christian of great influence in all the places of her residence. She rendered her
husband valuable services in his holy calling until ; scription, and these were copied in the newspapers of his demise, in the year 1876, after which she resided with her son, Senator Sutton, until her decease, in May, 1883, when her remains were laid to rest beside those of her husband, in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. The issue of the above union was three sons,-George Howard, who died in the eleventh year of his age; William Henry, the subject of this article; and John Wesley, who found an early grave.
Senator Sutton, from the time of his birth until he entered college, resided with his parents in the following places : Haddonfield, N. J. ; Coventry and Marshalton, Chester Co., Marietta, and Safe Harbor, Lancaster Co., Pa .; Smyrna and Dover, in the State of' Delaware; Centreville and Sudlersville, Md .; Dau- phin, Pa., and Philadelphia City, at which places his father was appointed to preach the gospel. He re- veived his preliminary education in the public schools and the preparatory school at Carlisle, Pa. In 1851 he entered Dickinson College, where
he studied for two years; then, after teaching for two years in Delaware County, Pa., he ma- triculated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and after completing the classical course, graduated in 1857. While in college he became a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After filling a term of three years as instructor in the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford, Conn., he studied law at the Law School of the University, Albany, N. Y. ; then went to Philadelphia, Pa., read law with the Hon. William M. Meredith, formerly Secretary of the Treasury and attorney-general of Pennsyl- vania, and was admitted to the bar in 1863, and has ever since heen in active practice. He has been con- cerned in many important cases tried in the courts of Philadelphia, and was the counsel for citizens of this county in a number of cases against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for damages on account of the right of way. In the celebrated Elm Station murder case he won great distinction for the able manner in which, at the solicitation of the citizens of Lower Merion, he assisted the district attorney, J. V. Got- walt, Esq., in conducting the prosecution.
This remarkable case occurred in the fall of the centennial year, and on account of the mystery which for a long time surrounded it, attracted universal at- tention not only in this country, but in Europe. Some boys from Philadelphia while walking along the em- bankments of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Elm Sta- tion, discovered the toes of a human foot protruding from the ground, and upon the earth being removed, a body was found in a good state of preservation, clothed in a shirt and undershirt of peculiar texture. A birth-mark and a malformation of one of the thumbs were also noticeable. The head of the corpse had been beaten in by some sharp instrument, but by whom or when was unknown. The body had appa- rently lain there for several months. Advertisements were placed in the newspapers giving the above de- Germany, where they were seen by old Mr. Hohne, who kept a saloon in one of the towns of that country, and he, coming to this country at time of the trial, identified the body as that of his son, Max Hugo Ilæhne. Through detectives it was discovered that after the young man had landed in this country, at New York, he had come to Philadelphia with a Swede, with whom he had become acquainted on the voyage, and that while in the Quaker City they had stopped at a saloon overnight, where they became acquainted with Henri Wahlen. In the morning the Swede and Hæhne left together, but soon afterwards parted, when Wahlen and another man joined Hæhne, and after accompanying him as far as Elm Station, Wahlen fell upon Hæhne and killed him in the presence of the other man. They stripped the body of its clothing, buried it and then returned to Philadelphia and plun- dered the trunk of Hohne.
It was with great difficulty that these facts were
John Stewart (Ind.) . 622
51 John Linderman (Dem.). . 10,575 John C. Dannehower ( Dem.) 10,503 Ezekiel Shoemaker (Rep.) . 10,019 J. M. Cunningham (Rep.). . 9,868 Henry R. Brown (Rep.) . . 9,843
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brought out and the murderer discovered. The evi- dence was purely circumstantial, but so skillfully had it been worked up and so ably was it presented to the jury that there was left no room for doubt, and a verdict of guilty was rendered against the prisoner. The able manner in which Senator Sutton acquitted himself in this case gained him great renown, and at the close of his speech he received not only the hearty congratulations of the many citizens and members of the bar who crowded the court-house, but also the sin- cere praise of the court. The guilty man committed suicide, and thus escaped the ignominious death of the gallows, which he so richly deserved. His accom-
also two of his brothers,-Dr. J. Rush Anderson and Dr. Joseph W. Anderson,-as well as his uncle, Dr. Isaac Anderson, and from some of these have descended a number of physicians, who to-day are in active practice in Montgomery, Delaware and Philadel- phia Counties. In St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Church, at Bryn Mawr, is a beautiful memorial window, representing St. Luke, the beloved physician, and other appropriate emblems, to the memory of Dr. James Anderson and his two sons, Dr. Isaac W. and Dr. J. Rush Anderson. Dr. Joseph W. Anderson is a bachelor, and resides at Ardmore, on the old home- stead.
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plice was also discovered, tried, condemned and served a term of imprisonment.
On the 25th of June, 1872, Senator Sutton was united in wedlock to Hannah C. Anderson, the only daughter of Dr. Isaac W. Anderson and Martha Yo- cum Crawford, of Lower Merion. The Anderson family is one of the oldest and most influential in - Lower Merion township. Patrick Anderson, one of their early American ancestors, was an officer of dis- tinction in the Revolutionary war. The family is famous for the number of physicians it has produced; not only was Dr. Isaac W. Anderson, son of the well-known Dr. James Anderson, a physician, but | dears her to the hearts of the community, and adds
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