Antoine "Anthony" "Andy" Sauter (May 4, 1848 – April 16, 1905) was a
machinist
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, once foreman of various shops in the
Roanoke Machine Works
250px, Norfolk Southern Roanoke Shops in 2004.
The Roanoke Shops (also called the East End Shops) is a Norfolk Southern workshop and maintenance facility in Roanoke, Virginia. Between 1884 and 1953, the shops produced 447 steam locomotives, all ...
for the
Norfolk and Western Railroad
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. He was a general foreman for the shops at
Lambert's Point
Lamberts Point is a point of land on the east shore of the Elizabeth River near the downtown area of the independent city of Norfolk in the South Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia, United States. It includes a large coal exporting facilit ...
from 1895 to 1903.
Early years
Sauter was born on May 4, 1848, to Henri Sauter and Marie Anne Sick (or Sieg) in
Oberhergheim
Oberhergheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Haut-Rhin department
The following is a list of the 366 communes of the French department of Haut-Rhin.
The co ...
in
Alsace, France
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...
. He attended the public and private schools, and worked for the Koechlin machine shops from 1863 to 1867.
On April 21, 1870, he married Catherine Senn in Mulhouse. Sauter was working as a locksmith.
United States
Following the Franco-Prussian War, the Sauters left for America, arriving in
Jersey City
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Erie Railways Company until its shops were consumed by fire on July 24, and then he moved to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania to work for the same company.
He arrived in Roanoke on July 4, 1882, staying for 13 years the foreman of its machine shops under
Frederick J. Kimball
Frederick James Kimball (March 6, 1844 – July 27, 1903) was a civil engineer. He was an early president of the Norfolk and Western Railway and helped develop the Pocahontas coalfields in Virginia and West Virginia.
Kimball was born in Ph ...
. Sauter received a promotion to "master mechanic" and moved to
Lambert's Point
Lamberts Point is a point of land on the east shore of the Elizabeth River near the downtown area of the independent city of Norfolk in the South Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia, United States. It includes a large coal exporting facilit ...
near Norfolk. He was serenaded at his home by the Roanoke Machine Works Band shortly before the move, on December 1, 1895.
Sauter spent a short time with his son as foreman in Portsmouth, Ohio before he was taken ill. He died of endocarditis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the German Hospital on April 16, 1905."Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803–1915."