Sabin, George M – Sailly, Peter
Sabin, George M
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 18, 1835, in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He moved to Nevada in 1868, and practiced law, and in 1882 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Nevada, residing at Carson City.
Sabin, Joseph
publisher, bibliophile, author, was born Dec. 9, 1821, in England.
He was an English publisher and bibliophile who came to America in 1848, and finally settling in New York city, became widely known as a bookseller and collector of rare books. He was the author of The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, with Scriptural Proofs; Bibliotheca Americana; and Bibliography of Bibliographies. He died June 5, 1881, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sabine, Lorenzo
merchant, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1803, in New Lisbon, N. H. He was for some time secretary of the Boston board of trade; was three times elected to the legislature of Maine from Eastport; and was at one time deputy collector of the port of Passamaquoddy. He held, in Massachusetts, the position of confidential agent of the treasury department, and was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-second congress. He was the author of a Life of Commodore Preble; The American Loyalists; Report on the American Fisheries; and Notes on Duels and Duelling. He died April 14, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
Sachs, Bernard
physician, author, was born in 1858 in Maryland. He is a physician of New York city, well known as a neurologist, and the author of Nervous and Mental Diseases of Childhood, and many professional monographs.
Sachse, Julius Friedrich
journalist, author, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He is a journalist of Philadelphia; and the author of The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania; and The Genesis of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.
Sackett, Myron W
journalist, was born Oct. 24, 1841, in Southington, Ohio. He received his education in the common schools and at Mahoning academy of Canfield, Ohio.
His early life was passed in mercantile pursuits in Meadville and Pittsburg, Pa. In 1871 he became identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a mutual protection organization; since 1878 he has devoted his entire time to its interests, and since 1879 has been its supreme secretary. Its members now number half a million; and have paid out over eighty million dollars to deceased members. For many years he has also been the secretary-treasurer of the National Fraternal congress, wherein is represented forty-two fraternal benefit orders. For a number of years past he has also been editor-in-chief of the Keystone Workman, and has contributed to periodical literature various articles on reform and kindred subjects.
Sackett, William Augustus
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1812, in Aurelius, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1853. He practiced law in Saratoga Springs.
Sadler, Orin Winslow
doctor of medicine, was born Jan. 2, 1843, in Brewerton, N. Y. He received a thorough education, and attended the Michigan university and the medical department of the Northwestern university of Chicago. He is a successful oculist and aurist of Pittsburg, Pa., and a member of the leading medical bodies of America and Europe.
Sadler, Thomas William
soldier, agriculturist, lawyer, congressman, was born April 17, 1831, near Russellville, Ala.
He was county superintendent of education from 1875 to 1884; and was a presidential elector in 1880. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Sadlier, Anna Teresa
author, was born Jan. 19, 1854, in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Seven Years and Mair; The King's Page; Ethel Hamilton; Names that Live, a volume of biographies; Women of Catholicity; The Silent Woman of Alood; and many translations from the French, Italian and German.
Sadlier, Mrs. Mary Anne
(MAD- DEN), author, was born Dec. 31, 1820, in Ireland. She is a prominent writer of Roman catholic Sunday-school tales, and wife of J. Sadlier, a New York publisher.
Among her many writings are, Alice Riordan; Red Hand of Ulster; The Daughter of Tyrconnell; and The Old House by the Boyne.
Sadtler, Benjamin
clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 25, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. In 1875 he accepted the presidency of Muhlenberg college, Allentown, Pa. He has published numerous baccalaureate discourses and addresses, including A Rebellious Nation Reproved; and The Causes and Remedies of the Losses of Her Population by the Lutheran Church in America.
Sadtler, Samuel Philip
chemist, educator, author, was born July 18, 1847, in Pine Grove, Pa. He is a chemist of Philadelphia, and professor in the university of Pennsylvania from 1875. He is the author of Chemical Experimentation; Handbook of Industrial Orgánic Chemistry; and A Text-Book of Chemistry.
Saffold, Reuben
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 4, 1788, in Wilkes county, Ga. During the Indian troubles he commanded a volunteer company, and he subsequently served several terms in the legislature of Mississippi territory.
He was made a circuit judge, and was one of the three judges that were appointed to the supreme bench in 1832, serving as chief justice in 1835-36. He died Feb. 15, 1847, in Dallas county, Ala.
Safford, a. P. K
governor. He was governor of the territory of Arizona from 1870 to 1878.
Safford, James Merrill
educator, geologist, chemist, was born Aug. 13, 1822, in Putnam, now a part of Zanesville, Ohio. In 1844 he graduated at the Ohio university, and afterward attended Yale university, from which institution he subsequently received the degree of Ph. D. During 1848- 72 he was professor of natural science in Cumberland university; during 1873-96 was professor of chemistry in the medical department of the university of Nashville; in the medical department of the Vanderbilt university during 1873-94; and since 1875 he has also been professor of natural history and geology in the Vanderbilt university. In 1854-60 he was state geologist at Tennessee, and since 1871 has filled the same position. He is the author of a series of reports on the Geology of Tennessee, and various other works.
Safford, Truman Henry
astronomer, educator, author, was born Jan. 6, 1836, in Royalton, Vt. He is an astronomer of note, famous in childhood as a mathematician, and professor of astronomy at Williams college from 1876. He is the author of Mathematical Teaching and Its Modern Methods.
Safford, William Harrison
was born Feb. 19, 1821, in Parkersburg, W. Va.
He is a lawyer of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the author of Life of Blennerhasset; and The Blennerhasset Papers.
Sage, Ebenezer
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1809 to 1815, and again from 1819 to 1820. He died in 1834.
Sage, Gardner Avery
surveyor, philanthropist, was born May 3, 1813, in New York city. He built and endowed the library of the Theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., which bears his name, and which he presented to the general synod. His gifts amounted to nearly $250,000. He died Aug. 22, 1882, in Sulphur Springs, Va.
Sage, George R
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 24, 1828, in Erie, Pa. He was prosecuting attorney three terms in Lebanon, Ohio. He returned to Cincinnati in 1865, and practiced law in the firm of Sage and Hinkle until appointed, in 1883, United States district judge for the southern district of Ohio.
Sage, Henry W
financier, state legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1813, in Middletown, Conn. About 1854, he built a saw mill at Lake Simcoe, in Canada, and later became a lumber operator in West Bay City, Mich., and one of the largest owners of pine lands in that state. He has given more than $1,250,000 to Cornell university; and Sage college for women, a chapel, a library and other buildings there are monuments to his liberality. In 1847 he was, as a republican, elected to the New York legislature, and in 1892 was a candidate for elector.
Sage, Russell
merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 4, 1816, in Oneida county, N. Y. In 1841 he was elected an alderman of the city of Troy, N. Y., and by annual re-elections, served seven years in that capacity. He was treasurer of Rensselaer county for seven years, in which office he was especially popular. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1857, and was the first man who advocated, on the floor of congress, the purchase of Mount Vernon by the general government. For twelve years he was president and vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad; and is director in many of the largest railroads in America.
Sailly, Peter
public official, congressman, was born in France. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1805 to 1807. He was appointed, by President Jefferson, collector of customs for the district of Champlain, holding the office until his death. He died in 1826 in Pittsburg, Pa. :814