Arnold Sutermeister

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Arnold Sutermeister around 1890

Arnold Sutermeister (born July 11, 1830 in Zofingen , † May 3, 1907 in Kansas City ) was a Swiss - American architect and officer .

Sutermeister's family came from Zofingen; he was trained as an architect. He later got contracts in Fort Wayne and Kansas City . Sutermeister was also a captain in the American Civil War , where he was captain of the Second Brigade ( Indiana Light ) and commanded a battery under William T. Sherman .

He was married to Louise Johanna Leibnitz Sutermeister (1836–1906).

literature

  • Remigius Sauerländer: Arnold Sutermeister, architect from Zofingen, battery commander in the American Civil War. Joh. Fehlmann, Zofingen 1909, 8 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Selected Families and Individuals . elmwoodcem-kc.org. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
  2. ^ A b c American Society of Civil Engineers (Ed.): Transactions . 1921, p. 2342 ( excerpt ).