Moses, Belle:Walter Stanborough Sutton
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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: DODO PR, 156 Seiten, L=216mm, B=140mm, H=9mm, Gew.=204gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biogra… More...
Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: DODO PR, 156 Seiten, L=216mm, B=140mm, H=9mm, Gew.=204gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biography / Autobiography], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: WALTER STANBOROUGH SUTTON APRIL 5, 1877 NOVEMBER 10, 1916 PUBLISHED BY His FAMILY 1917 Jtttro uctiott This little book is a memorial to one whose death was a terrible shock to his professional associates and his friends a bitter grief to his brothers, whose love for and admiration of him knew no limits and a crushing blow to his mother and father, whose lives were so intertwined with, his that life seemed impossible without him. He had been of their household almost forty years. They have no memories of him but of loving kindness. He was ever a joy to his mothers heart and a pride of his fathers life. His love for and tenderness towards his moth er were beautiful. He never forgot her under any circumstances. What he thought would please her he always did and what he thought might grieve her he always avoided. With his father he was but a younger brother with his brothers a joyous, affectionate, congenial and helpful companion. In the wider associations of life his highmindedness was a notable char acteristic. He was, as was once said of him, a man with a mind above the smallnesses of human nature. The years, as they proved 5 Introduction the greatness of his abilities, more and more brought out the nobility and simplicity of his nature and emphasized the absence of all the petty and unhappy traits which so often mar the characters of the greatest men. Walter Stanborough Sutton, son of Wil liam Bell and Agnes Black Sutton, was born in Utica, New York, April 5, 1877. He was the fifth successive son and grew into a strong, rugged boy with shy, retiring manners and very sensitive disposition. When he was teu years of age his parents removed to a ranch hi Bussell County, Kansas, and his nextnine years were spent in the country. In the grade and high schools at Bussell, from whicli he was graduated, he was studious and ranked high in his classes. In these early years he manifested a strong mechanical bent he re paired the farm machines and put them in order for the successive crops, and handled them all with marked skill and success. His interest in photography began when he made Ms own first camera as a boy on the ranch and he continued to use photography through oat Ms life, both in Ms professional work and in Ms recreations. He was fond of play and of outdoor sports, loved to celebrate Halloween and Christmas in the old-fasMoned way, and with m Tim sense of humor heartily joined his broth m. ev i fun-making prank 6 In September, 1896, he enrolled in the Introductior School of Engineering of the University of Kansas, at Lawrence. He greatly enjoyed this part of his course and soon became remarkably skillful in the use of tools and the operation of machinery and electrical apparatus and ex pert as a draftsman. In June, 1897, at the end of his first year he came home to spend his vacation and brought with him an infection of typhoid fever which developed in a few days and in turn attacked every member of the family. Walter was down first and up first and from the time he was able to move about assumed charge of the others who were ill and con tinued to do so until the disease was gone. All of the family survived except John, 17 years old, who succumbed to the disease on August 14, 1897. John, beloved of all the family the one set apart for the service of his coun try, and whose appointment as a cadet in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, arrived from Washington on the day hewas laid away in the Russell cemetery. Walters sympathetic, kindly, soothing, en couraging manner and skillful handling of the sick attracted the attention of his family and friends and induced them to urge upon him the study of medicine, which had much to do with his later decision to follow that profes sion. Introduction In August, 1909, having received the de grees of A. B., A. M. and M. D., lie began the practice of surgery in Kansas City... WALTER STANBOROUGH SUTTON APRIL 5, 1877 NOVEMBER 10, 1916 PUBLISHED BY His FAMILY 1917 Jtttro uctiott This little book is a memorial to one whose death was a terrible shock to his professional associates and his friends a bitter grief to his brothers, whose love for and admiration of him knew no limits and a crushing blow to his mother and father, whose lives were so intertwined with, his that life seemed impossible without him. He had been of their household almost forty years. They have no memories of him but of loving kindness. He was ever a joy to his mothers heart and a pride of his fathers life. His love for and tenderness towards his moth er were beautiful. He never forgot her under any circumstances. What he thought would please her he always did and what he thought might grieve her he always avoided. With his father he was but a younger brother with his brothers a joyous, affectionate, congenial and helpful companion. In the wider associations of life his highmindedness was a notable char acteristic. He was, as was once said of him, a man with a mind above the smallnesses of human nature. The years, as they proved 5 Introduction the greatness of his abilities, more and more brought out the nobility and simplicity of his nature and emphasized the absence of all the petty and unhappy traits which so often mar the characters of the greatest men. Walter Stanborough Sutton, son of Wil liam Bell and Agnes Black Sutton, was born in Utica, New York, April 5, 1877. He was the fifth successive son and grew into a strong, rugged boy with shy, retiring manners and very sensitive disposition. When he was teu years of age his parents removed to a ranch hi Bussell County, Kansas, and his nextnine years were spent in the country. In the grade and high schools at Bussell, from whicli he was graduated, he was studious and ranked high in his classes. In these early years he manifested a strong mechanical bent he re paired the farm machines and put them in order for the successive crops, and handled them all with marked skill and success. His interest in photography began when he made Ms own first camera as a boy on the ranch and he continued to use photography through oat Ms life, both in Ms professional work and in Ms recreations. He was fond of play and of outdoor sports, loved to celebrate Halloween and Christmas in the old-fasMoned way, and with m Tim sense of humor heartily joined his broth m. ev i fun-making prank 6 In September, 1896, he enrolled in the Introductior School of Engineering of the University of Kansas, at Lawrence. He greatly enjoyed this part of his course and soon became remarkably skillful in the use of tools and the operation of machinery and electrical apparatus and ex pert as a draftsman. In June, 1897, at the end of his first year he came home to spend his vacation and brought with him an infection of typhoid fever which developed in a few days and in turn attacked every member of the family. Walter was down first and up first and from the time he was able to move about assumed charge of the others who were ill and con tinued to do so until the disease was gone. All of the family survived except John, 17 years old, who succumbed to the disease on August 14, 1897. John, beloved of all the family the one set apart for the service of his coun try, and whose appointment as a cadet in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, arrived from Washington on the day hewas laid away in the Russell cemetery. Walters sympathetic, kindly, soothing, en couraging manner and skillful handling of the sick attracted the attention of his family and friends and induced them to urge upon him the study of medicine, which had much to do with his later decision to follow that profes sion. Introduction In August, 1909, having received the de grees of A. B., A. M. and M. D., lie began the practice of surgery in Kansas City...<
