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George Sutton, harness manufacturer, and one of the wide-awake, thorough-going business men of Fayetteville, was born in this city February 5, 1848, and is the son of Seneca and Isabella (Houston) Sutton, natives of Kentucky and Missouri, respectively. The father was born and reared in Lincoln County, and learned the hatter’s business, which he followed for many years. In 1834 he married Miss Isabella Houston, and became the father of four children, two sons and two daughters: James T., a merchant and resident of Caston, Ind. T.; Mary and Isabella, who are now residing on the old homestead, and George, subject of this sketch. The father of these children moved to Missouri, and followed his trade in that State until l840, when he moved to Washington County, Ark., and here received his final summons October 25, 1857. His eldest son, James T., served in the Confederate army from 1862 to 1863, in the Northwestern Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry, McCreas’ battalion. He was married in Fayetteville, Ark., to Miss Francena L. Martin, a native of Arkansas, and the daughter of William Martin (deceased). This union resulted in the birth of two sons and a daughter: William Seneca, Henry Stevinson and Mary Bell. William Seneca Sutton is superintendent of the public schools of Houston, Tex., and Mary Bell is a graduate of the Peabody Institute, of Nashville, and is now a teacher in the schools at Morrillton, Ark. George Sutton reached his majority in Washington County, Ark., learned the harness-maker’s trade, and has followed the same up to the present, being prominently identified with that industry in the county. He was married to Miss Maggie Cooper, a native of Mississippi, and to them have been born two daughters, Mabel and Bertha. Mr. Sutton is a stockholder in the Fair Association, and he and Mrs. Sutton are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she being an active worker in the same.