Antoine Sauter
Born(1848-05-04)May 4, 1848
Oberhergheim, France
DiedApril 16, 1905(1905-04-16) (aged 56)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
OccupationMachinist
EmployerRoanoke Machine Works
Known forForeman, master mechanic
SpouseCatherine Senn
Children8

Antoine "Anthony" "Andy" Sauter (May 4, 1848 – April 16, 1905) was a machinist, once foreman of various shops in the Roanoke Machine Works for the Norfolk and Western Railroad.[1][2][3][4] He was a general foreman for the shops at Lambert's Point from 1895 to 1903.[5]

Early years

Sauter was born on May 4, 1848, to Henri Sauter and Marie Anne Sick (or Sieg) in Oberhergheim in Alsace, France.[1][6] He attended the public and private schools, and worked for the Koechlin machine shops from 1863 to 1867.[1]

On April 21, 1870, he married Catherine Senn in Mulhouse. Sauter was working as a locksmith.[6]

United States

Following the Franco-Prussian War, the Sauters left for America, arriving in Jersey City on April 1, 1872.[1] He worked in Jersey City for the Erie Railways Company until its shops were consumed by fire on July 24,[7][lower-alpha 1] and then he moved to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania to work for the same company.[1]

He arrived in Roanoke on July 4, 1882, staying for 13 years the foreman of its machine shops under Frederick J. Kimball.[1] Sauter received a promotion to "master mechanic" and moved to Lambert's Point near Norfolk.[9] He was serenaded at his home by the Roanoke Machine Works Band shortly before the move, on December 1, 1895.[10][11]

Sauter spent a short time with his son as foreman in Portsmouth, Ohio before he was taken ill.[12][13] He died of endocarditis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the German Hospital on April 16, 1905.[1][14][15]

Notes

  1. ↑ Responding fireman James McCarthy was the first Jersey City firefighter to be killed in the line of duty.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 American Railway Master Mechanics' Association (1906). "Antoine Sauter". Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway Master Mechanics' Association. 39: 551.
  2. ↑ "Local Brevities". The Roanoke Times. March 5, 1892. p. 8.
  3. ↑ "Mr. Sauter Injured". The Roanoke Times. August 9, 1892. p. 4.
  4. ↑ "The Machine Works". The Roanoke Times. July 19, 1891.
  5. ↑ Company, Norfolk and Western Railway (November 13, 1942). "Norfolk and Western Magazine". Norfolk and Western Railway Company – via Google Books.
  6. 1 2 "Archives Hout Rhin Naan". archives.haut-rhin.fr. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  7. ↑ "The Erie Shops In Jersey City Burned". Michigan Argus. July 26, 1872.
  8. ↑ "Anniversary ceremony honors Jersey City's first fallen firefighter". 25 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Brief Personals". The Roanoke Daily Times. December 27, 1895. p. 8.
  10. ↑ "Mr. Sauter Serenaded". The Roanoke Daily Times. December 1, 1895. p. 5.
  11. ↑ Raymond P. Barnes. A History of Roanoke. p. 283.
  12. ↑ The Pocket List of Railroad Officials. Primedia Information. 1904.
  13. ↑ Norfolk and Western Magazine. Norfolk and Western Railway Company. 1939.
  14. ↑ "Andy Sauter Dead In Philadelphia (sic)". Vol. 11, no. 91.
  15. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915."
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