Robert S. Sutherland
Robert S. Sutherland, county commissioner, Washington, was born in Ross County, Ohio, July 14, 1825. He is a son of Robert and Hannah Sutherland, natives of Pennsylvania, who immigrated to Ohio about the year 1814, with a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters.
Robert S., our subject, was married in the year 1850, to Miss Hannah Parrett, daughter of Frederick Parrett, of Ross Connty. They had one child, Frederick R., who died in 1851.
Mr. Sutherland was elected county commissioner in 1873, and has filled the office since that time. He received his education in this county, where he has passed the principal portion of his life. He now resides on a farm of one hundred and eight acres, situated three miles north of Washington, in Union Township.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County