Saint Gaudens, Augustus – Sampson, William
Saint Gaudens, Augustus
sculptor, was born March 1, 1848, in Ireland.
He has been president of the Society of American Artists. His more important works are the bas-relief Adoration of the Cross by Angels, in St. Thomas's church, New York; statues of Admiral David G.
Farragut, in New York; of Robert R.
Randall, at Sailor's Snug Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y., and of Abraham Lincoln, in Chicago.
Saint Gaudens, Louis
sculptor, was born Jan. 8, 1854, in New York. He has modeled a Faun; St. John, for the Church of the Incarnation, New York, and other statues, and has assisted his brother in most of his works.
Sajous, Charles Euchariste
physician, author, was born Dec. 13, 1852, in Paris, France. He became clinical chief in the throat department of Jefferson college hospital of Philadelphia, and finally lecturer in the college proper. In 1888 he edited and brought to a successful issue one of the largest medical works of the time, the Annals of the Universal Medical Sciences.
Sales, Francis
educator, author, was born in 1771 in France. He was instructor at Harvard in French and Spanish from 1816 till 1839, and afterward in Spanish alone till the year of his death.
He edited and enlarged Augustin E.
Josse's Grammar of the Spanish Language; and published critical and annotated editions of the Spanish dramatists, Don Quixote, and other Spanish classics, the Fables of Fontaine, with notes, and treatises on the French and Spanish languages. He died Feb. 16, 1854, in Cambridge, Mass.
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge
philologist, educator, author, was born April 6, 1814, in Boston, Mass. He is a philologist of distinction, professor of Arabic at Yale university in 1841-56; and the author of General and Biographical Monographs.
Salisbury, James Henry
physician, author, was born Oct. 13, 1823, in Scott, N. Y. In 1864 he settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he assisted in establishing the Charity Hospital Medical college, before which he lectured till 1866 on physiology and histology. He has been president of the institute of Micrology since 1878. Among his publications are a prize essay on the Anatomy and History of Plants; and one on the Chemical and Physiological Examinations of the Maize Plant during the Various Stages of Its Growth.
Salomon, Edward
lawyer, governor, was born in 1828 in Prussia. He became a lawyer, was governor of Wisconsin in 1862-63, and then practiced in New York city.
Salomon, Frederick
soldier, surveyor, was born April 7, 1826, in Prussia. He served through the civil war, receiving the brevet of major-general in 1865. He was subsequently for several years surveyor-general of Utah territory.
Salsbury, Elias D
lawyer, was born July 23, 1867, in the village of Locke, Ind. He received his education at the university of Michigan, and graduated from the law department of that institution.
He is a prominent lawyer of Goshen, Ind., and first distinguished himself as an able lawyer in his defense of Hendryx in the famous Hendryx-Calkins murder case.
Salt, Enoch
musician, composer, was born April 9, 1856, in Covington, Ky.
In 1876 he was the organist at the Centennial exhibition, and is now an organist of Portsmouth, Ohio. He is the composer of several songs, church music, and several sonatas for the piano.
Salter, Richard
clergyman, philanthropist, author, was born in 1723 in Boston, Mass. He gave to Yale college in 1781 a farm, which was sold for $2,000, for the purpose of promoting the study of Hebrew and other oriental languages.
He published an Election Sermon; and began a Commentary on the New Testament. He died April 14, 1789, in Mansfield, Conn.
Salter, Sumner
musician, composer, was born June 24, 1856, in Burlington, Iowa. He is a noted organist and director, and the author of a number of songs and church music.
Salter, William
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Since 1846 he has been pastor of the congregational church of Burlington, Iowa. He is the author of The Life of James W. Grimes.
Salter, William D
naval officer, was born in 1794 in New York city. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1809, became lieutenant in 1814, was made master-commandant in 1831, captain in 1839, and commodore on the retired list in 1862. He died Jan. 3, 1869, in Elizabeth, N. J.
Saltonstall, Dudley
naval officer, was born Sept. 8, 1738, in New London, Conn. He was a commodore in the continental navy. He died in 1796, in the West Indies.
Saltonstall, Gurdon
clergyman, governor, was born March 27, 1666, in Haverhill, Mass. He was governor of Connecticut from 1707 till his death, and he bequeathed one thousand pounds to the university of Haverhill to educate students for the ministry. He died Oct. 1, 1724.
Saltonstall, Leverett
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 13, 1783, in Haverhill, Mass. He was a state senator in 1831, and was mayor of Salem, Mass., from 1836 to 1838. He was a presidential elector in 1837, and frequently served in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from 1838 to 1843. He died May 8, 1845, in Salem, Mass.
Saltonstall, Leverett
lawyer, genealogist, was born March 16, 1825, in Salem, Mass. In 1885 he was appointed collector of customs for the port of Boston and Charlestown. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Historical society and of other learned bodies, and compiled a genealogical history of his family.
Saltus, Edgar Evertson
author, was born in June, 1858, in New York city. He is a novelist of New York city, and the author of Balzac: a Study; The Philosophy of Disenchantment; The Anatomy of Negation; Mr. Incoul's Misadventure; The Truth about Tristram Varick; Eden; A Transaction in Hearts; When Dreams Come True; and The Pace that Kills.
Saltus, Francis Saltus
poet, was born in 1849 in New York. He was a poet much of whose life was passed abroad. He was the author of Honey and Gall; Shadows and Ideals; The Witch of Endor; Romance of the Opera; Kings of Song; The Bayadere, and Other Sonnets.
He died June 25, 1889.
Salyer, John Preston
lawyer, state senator, was born Feb. 9, 1855, in Floyd, Ky. In 1893 he was elected from the thirty-fourth district of Kentucky as a member of the state senate, for the period of four years. 4
Salzmann, Joseph
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 17, 1819, in Austria. He succeeded Archbishop Henni as president of the Theological seminary of St. Francis. He was one of the founders of the Seebote, a German periodical published at Milwaukee, to which he was a frequent contributor. He died Jan. 17, 1874, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Samford, William J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1844, in Greenville, Ga. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1875; was a presidential elector in 1876; and was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Sammons, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1803 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1813.
Sample, Robert Fleming
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1829, in Corning, N. Y. He is a member of various church boards, and a director of the McCormick Theological seminary, Chi-- cago, Ill. Besides numerous pamphlets and sermons, he has published several books for the young on Christian experience, and also a Memoir of Rev. John C. Thom.
Sample, Samuel C
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1843 to 1845.
Sampson, Archibald J
soldier, lawyer, lecturer, was born in Ohio. In 1873 he moved to Colorado, and in 1876 was elected attorney-general of that state.
He subsequently settled in Phoenix, Ariz., and in 1896 was elected department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of Arizona. He has delivered lectures upon Mexico; Music of the War; Music and Musicians; Lincoln; and other subjects.
Sampson, Ezekiel S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1831, in Huron county, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney in 1856-58, in Sigourney, Iowa. He was captain in the fifth Iowa infantry in 1861 and 1862, and lieutenant-colonel in 1863 and 1864. He was a state senator in 1866; and was judge of the sixth judicial district of Iowa from 1867 to 1875. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Sampson, Ezra
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Feb. 12, 1749, in Middleborough, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman at Plympton, Mass., in 1775-95, and subsequently a journalist in Hartford. He was the author of Beauties of the Bible; The Historical Dictionary; The Sham Patriot Unmasked; and The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Men.
He died Dec. 12, 1823, in New York city.
Sampson, John Patterson
lawyer, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 13, 1837, in Wilmington, N. C. He is a clergyman of the African methodist church, and prior to 1882 a lawyer in Washington.
He is the author of Common Sense Physiology; The Disappointed Bride; Temperament and Phrenology of Mixed Races; Jolly People; and Illustrations in Theology.
Sampson, William
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 17, 1764, in Ireland. He was a famous lawyer of New York city who came to America in 1798, having previously been a barrister in Dublin. He was the author of Sampson Against the Philistines, or the Reform of Lawsuits; and Memoir of William Sampson. He died Dec. 27, 1836, in New York city.