Background
Sutton, Eli Ransome was born on August 25, 1869 in Greeley, Kansas, United States. Son of Ottawa and Elizabeth (Poplin) Sutton.
Sutton, Eli Ransome was born on August 25, 1869 in Greeley, Kansas, United States. Son of Ottawa and Elizabeth (Poplin) Sutton.
Graduate Kansas State Normal School, 1888. Bachelor of Laws, University of Michigan, 1891, Master of Laws and Bachelor of Science, 1892.
Practiced law in Detroit, 1892-1903. At request of the mayor of Detroit, visited the delta of the Orinoco River in South. America and reported location of a large deposit of asphalt. Reported the last third of the Boer War in South Africa for an American newspaper syndicate.
With Los Angeles Times, since 1920, writer and editor science page (weekly).
Director A. B. Williams Company, Sodus, New York Regent University of Michigan, 1898-1900.
Married Grace Louise Williams, July 1, 1896. Children: Dorothy Hathaway (Mistress Edward Clarke Ingraham), Anita Elizabeth (Mistress Edward Hillebrandt Whitehouse).