The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-09
ALL WELL KNOWN MEN
THREE PROMINENT NEW HAVEN
 FRS DEAD.

Death of Henry Sutton, the Ship Builder
 and owner--william R. Hubbell, Well
 Known Master Builder--The Late Ed
 ward F. Yale,
 builder, died yesterday morning at S'So at the hospital, whither he was taken directly after the sad accident which caused his death. He was unconscious for the last two days, After the first period of insensibllity resulting from the accident he recovered consciousness and conversed with his wife and the attending physicians, and some hope of his recovery was then entertained,
 In the death of Henry Sutton this city and West Haven lose a valuable man, man of rare enterprise and fertility of business resources and one Of tn- domitable energy. He was in the full est sense the architect of his fortune, and won his way steadily and by the exercise of genuine business ability to the prominent and responsible position
 
 Beginning as a young man, with no capital aXcept brains and natural busi- ness ability he rapidly won his way to the front among our business men. He was a native of Oxford, Conn, and by trade 8 carriage trimmer The frst few years of his young manhood were spent as an employe in the Manyille carriage manufacturing establishment in this city Later he was very suc- cessfuly engaged in the grocery busi- ness on Chapel street, near East, and later on Chapel street, corner of Frank lin, and he gradually added to the busi- ness a ship chandlery department, which later became for a time his sole business. Acquiring a knowledge of the status and workings of the New England coastwise shipping business, he. by degrees embarked in the busi- ness of shipbuilding, he financing the building of vessels and having them built to his order by the firm of Gesner & Marr, shipbuilders in West Haven. He finally devoted his entire attention to shipbuilding and the management of coastwise vessels, and under his keen financiering and direction one Of the most notable fleet of eoastwise vessels ever built in Connecticut was set atioat and came under his direction as man. aging agent for the owners. He him. self became a large owner in these Ves- sels, and among the owners are many of our most prominent capitalists and business men. Several of the vessels were named in honor of prominent owners among them being the James D. Dewell, named for Conpecticuts next lieutenant governor; the Nathan Easterbrook, the General s. F. Merwin and the w. w. Ward. One of the fleet is named in honor of MT. Sutton's es- timahle and devoted wife, the Lucinda Sutton, who in her profoundly sad be- reavement will have the deep sympathy of large circle of friends and of the community at large of which she is 2 member
 The sudden ending of MT. Sutton s life comes as a shock to the business public He fell not as a shock of corn fully ripe, but while still in the prime of life in the midst of his numerous business activities. Only few weeks ago he spoke with keen satisfaction of starting soon upon his annual drive with his wife up the Berkshire or Hous- atomic valleys as had been his custom for several years Just before the cleo tion he spoke with great hopefulness of the prospects of a grand business re- vival to follow the election of McKin- ley His faith that the verdict of the American people would be emphatieal- ly for sound money, law and good gov ernment was unfaltering.
 MT, Sutton was near neighbor and close friend of the late Wallace w. Ward of West Haven. His home was at Wards corner, in the beautiful and stately residence which was erected by the late Israel K. Ward 8 brother of the late Wallace w. Ward Mir. Slut ton purchased this residence ten or twelve years ago, and upon refitting it and making various improvements re- moved to it from this city, the change of residence to West Haven being made partly in order to be nearer the ship yards, where his vessels were be- ing erected The launching of his big vessels was always a notable local event, attracting thousands of specta- tors.
 It was in 1875 that MT Sutton began shipbuilding in West Haven, complet- ing the schooner Edward M. Reed, a vessel of 400 tons for Clarence g. Kel- 1 sey Then he entered into the business extensively, and in all built fifteen 1 schooners, among them some of the | finest afloat.
 | MT Sutton was managing owner in all the vessels that he built, besides three that were purchased. The fleet 1 that he built consisted of the following Schooners S. E. Merwin, James D. l Dewell, Charles F. Tuttle, Henry Sut- l ton, Edward M Reed, Wallace w. l Ward, General E. $. Greeley, Henry H. | Olds, James Ives, George M. Grant. Ly-
 man M. Law, Lucinda Sutton, N. East | erbrook, jr., Harry A. Barry and The 1 Horwitz. He also was managing own CT of the schooner R, & T. Hargraves. After completing the Reed, the first
 schooner built by MT. Sutton was the l Horwitz in 1880. The Barry was next | in 1881, and of the fleet the largest is | the Lucinda Sutton, tonnage 1412, with
 a capacity of 2,500 tons of coal.
 Four of this fleet have been lost
 the Henry H. Olds, James Ives, Easter. ! brook and the Harry A, Barry. 1 The funeral of Mr. Sutton will take
 place on Wednesday afternoon at l o'clock from his late residence.
 THE LATE F. P. YALE. | Edward P. Yale died at 6:45 Satur-