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Subject: [INDIANA] Sutton, Routt, Wright, Osterhage, Campbell, Bateman,
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 20:06:46 EDT

This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it
just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not
researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these
families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional
mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this
book. I am typing the biographies from it.

Typed by Lora Radiches:



Surnames in this biography are: Sutton, Routt, Wright, Osterhage, Campbell,
Bateman,

BYRON SUTTON. With well proved technical skill and artistic conceptions as an
architect, Mr. Sutton is engaged in the active work of his profession in the
City of Vincennes, as one of the principals in the Sutton & Routt Company, the
offices of which are situated on the third floor of the Citizens Trust
Building. Mr. Sutton was born at Princeton, judicial Center of Gibson County,
Indiana, July 7, 1884, and is a son of James and Mary E. (Wright) Sutton, the former
a native of England and the latter of Gibson County, Indiana, where their
marriage was solemnized and where James Sutton was engaged in the mercantile
business at Princeton at the time of his death, in 1913. His father was Thomas
Sutton, a member of the historic old Sutton family of Sutton, England. After
completing his studies in the high school at Princeton, Byron Sutton attended the
Chicago Technical College and also carried forward studies in the Chicago Art
Institute, where his discipline was especially in line with the profession of
which he is now a successful representative. In 1904 he established residence
in Vincennes, and here he was employed in the offices of a leading architect,
Thomas Campbell, until 1913, Mr. Campbell having in the meanwhile, in 1907,
admitted a partner, L. H. Osterhage, and the firm name having thereafter
continued as Campbell & Osterhage until he retired, in 1913. From that year Mr.
Sutton remained as a silent partner of Mr. Osterhage until he became a constituent
principal, under the firm title of Osterhage & Sutton. The death of Mr.
Osterhage occurred in 1923, and in continuing the well-established business Mr.
Sutton and L. W. Routt formed a partnership, whereupon the present title of Sutton
& Routt, architects and engineers, was adopted. In the World war period Mr.
Sutton was retained by the Government as architect in construction work at Camp
Knox, Kentucky, and he was thus engaged seven months. Prior to and after this
service he was active and influential in furthering patriotic movements in
his home city and county, including the drives in support of the Government war
loans, Red Cross work, etc. His firm drew the plans and specifications for
several Vincennes school buildings and for modern school buildings at Casey,
Lawrenceville, Bridgeport, Albion, Sumner, Oblong and Olney, Illinois; the
Coliseum and Saint Mary’s school at Washington, Indiana; the Vincennes Coliseum, and
in Vincennes the fine buildings of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, First
Baptist Church, Saint James Episcopal Church and the Vincennes Fortnightly
(woman’s) Club, while many other buildings in the city stand in evidence of the
technical and artistic skill of Mr. Sutton and those who have been his
professional coadjutors. Other fine structures in the planning and erecting of which
Mr. Sutton has been concerned are: Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church at
Saint Francisville, Illinois; the Methodist Episcopal Church at Princeton,
Indiana; the Christian Church at Seymour, Indiana; the Methodist Church at
Bloomfield, Indiana; the Daviess County Hospital at Washington, Indiana, and the
Daviess County Courthouse in the same city. The firm has designed many modern
residences of the highest grade, as well as large business structures in various
cities. The concern maintained offices in Hollywood, Florida, in the period of
1925-27, where it did important construction service, as did it also at Miami
and Fort Lauderdale, that state, and also in Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Sutton
has membership in the Indiana Engineers Society, Indiana Society of Architects
and is a registered engineer in Indiana, as well as a registered architect in
both this state and that of Illinois. He is a valued member of the Vincennes
Chamber of Commerce and is president of the local Rotary Club. His basic Masonic
affiliation is with historic Vincennes Lodge No. 1, A. F. and A. M., and his
other York Rite affiliations are with the local Chapter, Council and
Commandery, while as a Noble of the Mystic Shrine his membership is in Hadi Temple at
Evansville, Indiana. At Vincennes was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sutton to
Miss Muriel M. Bateman, daughter of Henry and Alice Bateman, of this city. The
two children of this union, Thomas and Ruth, have graduated from the public
schools of their home city and Thomas attended Notre Dame University at South
Bend, Indiana, where he is taking a course in architecture.

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