Howard Vigne Sutherland (1868)

Born 3 Jul 1868 in Fort Beaufort

Ancestors

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Biography

Howard was born in 1868. He is the son of Thomas Sutherland and Sophia Fairbridge.

^[1]Bapt. in St. John's Church, Fort Beaufort, Educ. Halbrake School, Wandsworth, 1876-1880, and Dr. Bieber's School, Hamburg. 1880-83. Became a naturalized American citizen in 1896. Recevied a letter from Queen Alexandra in apprciation of his writings, and from the King of Greece. Extract from "Who's Who in America" (1924:Sutherland, Howard Vigne: author. Railroad Contractor Angentina, S.A. 1887-88; Newspaper work, San Francisco, Calif, 1889-98; miner in Klondike 1898-99. Author: "The Legend of Love," 1895, revised 1911; "The Old, Old, Story," 1893; "Jacinta, a Californian Idyll," 1900; "Bigg's Bar and other Klondike Ballads," 1901; "Idylls of Greece," (Sherman Franch & Co., Boston,) Series1 1908, 2 1910, 3, 19154, "Songs of a City," 1904, "The Woman Who Could," 1911; "Idas and Marpessa " (Desmond Fitzgerald & Co, New York,) 1012, "Out of the North," 1913. "The Promise of Life." 1914.

Sources

1. ↑ Comes from a document put together by my uncle [Jerry Fairbridge] in the early 2000s. He got the information from another document that was compiled by his great aunt Brenda Troil Fairbridge in the 1920s. From the personal files of Natalie Fairbridge, Sherwood Park, AB.