SUTTON, JOHN EDWARD: 1863-1900.
" John E. Sutton , son of Andrew J. and Barbara Horn Sutton, was born in Fulton County, Ind., on Oct. 21, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of Logansport and served as city editor of the LOGANSPORT PHAROS for three years. After this experience in journalism he went West, worked on many metropolitan papers and became publisher of the REAL ESTATE REPORTER in Los Angeles . In 1887 he married May Stanley of Los Angeles and they had two children, Psyche and Lindley. He returned to page: 310[View Page 310] Logansport and, on Oct. 1, 1889, founded the LOGANSPORT REPORTER. Later he also published the GALVESTON SUN and the LOGANSPORT ADVANCE.
"While on a trip abroad he wrote a series of letters for the LOGANSPORT REPORTER and these were afterwards published in book form under the title Across the Sea. He died Jan. 6, 1900."
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- Across the Sea. Logansport,
Ind., 1895.
