| Antoine Sauter | |
| Occupation: | Machinist |
| Birth Date: | 4 May 1848 |
| Birth Place: | Oberhergheim, France |
| Death Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Spouse: | Catherine Senn |
| Children: | 8 |
| Known For: | Foreman, master mechanic |
| Employer: | Roanoke Machine Works |
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]
Antoine Sauter was born on May 4, 1848, to Henri Sauter and Marie Anne Sick (or Sieg) in Oberhergheim, near Colmar in Alsace, France.[1] His father Henri was a mason from Dotternhausen, Germany.[6] Antoine attended the public and private schools, and worked as a locksmith for the Koechlin machine shops in Mulhouse from 1863 to 1867.[1] [7]
On April 21, 1870, he married Catherine Senn in Mulhouse. Sauter was still working as a locksmith.[8]
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,[9] 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 a foreman for the machine shops of the Roanoke Machine Works, part of the Norfolk and Western Railroad under president Frederick J. Kimball.
Sauter received a promotion to "master mechanic" and moved to Lambert's Point near Norfolk.[10] He was serenaded at his home by the Roanoke Machine Works Band shortly before the move, on December 1, 1895.[11] [12]
Sauter spent a short time with his son as foreman in Portsmouth, Ohio before he was taken ill.[13] [14] He died of endocarditis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the German Hospital on April 16, 1905.[15] [16]