. Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system . e Army at Appomattox. EDMUND RANDOLPH SUTTON. The appointment of Mr. Sutton as Messenger to the Departmentproved to be a very fortunate one. The office was then crowded withbusiness; and he, from the first, discharged the duties of a clerk, inaddition to the work properly belonging to his position. This favorwas highly appreciated, as the labor of the Department could not beproperly performed by one clerk, and there was provision for nomore at that
. Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system . e Army at Appomattox. EDMUND RANDOLPH SUTTON. The appointment of Mr. Sutton as Messenger to the Departmentproved to be a very fortunate one. The office was then crowded withbusiness; and he, from the first, discharged the duties of a clerk, inaddition to the work properly belonging to his position. This favorwas highly appreciated, as the labor of the Department could not beproperly performed by one clerk, and there was provision for nomore at that time. Mr. Suttons ability and faithfulness in the taskwhich he had gratuitously assumed was in due time appropriatelyrewarded. In June, 1871, he was appointed warrant clerk, and hasvery satisfactorily filled that situation to the present time (1876).He wields a ready pen, writes a bold, legible hand, and is an accu-rate and rapid accountant. In auditing the accounts renderedagainst, the Department by the several institutions, amounting annu-ally to a little less than a half million of dollars, his services aredeemed as almost
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