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Henry S. Sutton is a promising young lawyer, of the firm of Downs & Sutton at Nashville. He was born at Fayetteville, Ark., August 29, 1867, being the youngest of three children born to the marriage of James T. and Francena L. (Martin) Sutton, who were also born in this State. The paternal grandfather, Seneca Sutton, was one of the pioneers of Washington County, and settled at Fayetteville, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, soon becoming one of the leading business men in that place at that day, and there he passed from life. James T. Sutton was early reared to mercantile pursuits, and attended the schools of Fayetteville, his future wife being also an attendant, and the acquaintance formed there afterward culminated in marriage. They are both still living. Henry S. Sutton entered the primary grade of the State University of Arkansas, at about the age of twelve years, and remained in this institution for some six years, where he acquired a thorough literary education. During the vacations he worked in his uncle's harness shop, and was a thorough master of the trade before he was sixteen years of age. Upon leaving school in 1885 he engaged as a clerk and salesman for the various firms of Fayetteville until the fall of 1888, when he became a student in the law department of the Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tenn., taking the degree of B. LL., the following June. In the fall of 1889 he located at Nashville, Ark., becoming associated in his practice with a former classmate, Stephen A. Downs. Mr. Sutton possesses more than ordinary ability, is a hard student and is rapidly winning a reputation both as a lawyer and as a courteous gentleman. In character he is strictly honorable and temperate, and like his partner is a total abstainer in the use of tobacco and liquors of an intoxicating nature. He is energetic and progressive, and he and Mr. Downs constitute one of the brightest legal firms in this section of the country.