Sanger, George Partridge – Sargent, Nathan
Sanger, George Partridge
lawyer, journalist, was born Nov. 27, 1819, in Dover, Mass. He was for many years the editor of The American Almanac, and also edited the Boston Law Reporter. He edited, with George Minot, the United States Statutes at Large, Treaties, Proclamations, etc.; and in 1862-63, with John G. Locke, revised and consolidated the city ordinances of Boston, Mass., and collated the state municipal laws. He died July 3, 1890, in Swampscott, Mass.
Sanger, Jane
business woman, poet, was born in 1829 in Nelson, N. Y. She is the owner of a photograph gallery, and part-owner of a book bindery at Fort Scott, Kan. She is the author of a large number of poems; has contributed extensively to current literature; and her political poems have attracted much attention. a
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Eliz-
ABETH [MUNSON], journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1838, in New Rochelle, N. Y. She is a journalist of New York city, editor of Harper's Bazar from 1889, and a popular verse-writer whose domestic poems display sentiment of very genuine kind. Her writings in verse comprise, On the Road Home; Easter Bells; Poems of the Household; Home Fairies and Heart Flowers. She has also written a Manual of Missions of the Reformed Church, and several books for girls, including Hours with Girls; Home and Heaven; Splendid Times; Five Happy Weeks; May Stanhope and her Friend; Miss Dewbury's School; Little Knights and Ladies; and Maidie's Problem.
Sankey, Ira David
evangelist, vocalist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1840, in Edinburgh, Pa. He was a musical evangelist, and co-laborer of Dwight L. Moody. He is the author of several popular hymns, and is one of the compilers of the revival hymn book entitled Gospel Songs.
Santayana, George
educator, author, poet, was born in 1863 in Spain. He is an instructor in philosophy at Harvard university; and the author of Sonnets and Other Poems; and The Sense of Beauty: being the Outlines of Esthetic Theory.
Sapp, Oscar L
lawyer, college president, was born May 5, 1869, in Kernersville, N. C. He has been mayor of his native town and during 1891-92 was president of the Enfield Collegiate institute.
Sapp, William Fletcher
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1824, in Danville, Ohio. In 1860 he removed to Nebraska; and in 1861 was appointed adjutant-general of Nebraska territory, and subsequently elected to the territorial legislature. He served in the union army as lieutenantcolonel. He moved to Iowa; and was a state representative in 1865. He was United States district attorney from 1869 to 1873. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fifth congress; was re-elected to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.
Sapp, William R
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1857.
Sargeant, Nathaniel Peaslee
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1731, in Methuen, Mass. He was elected a delegate to the provincial congress in 1775; and was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1776. He was judge of the supreme court of the state; and became chief justice in 1789. He died Oct. 12, 1791, in Haverhill, Mass.
Sargent, Aaron Augustus
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 28, 1827, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1861 he was elected a representative from California to the thirtyseventh congress, serving as a member of the select committee on the Pacific railroad, to which enterprise he was particularly devoted, and was re-elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses. He was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879, serving on the committees on naval affairs, mines and mining, and appropriations; and in 1882 was appointed United States minister to Germany. He died Aug. 14, 1887, in San Francisco, Cal.
Sargent, Charles Sprague
journalist, botanist, educator, author, was born April 24, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He is a botanist of eminence, Arnold professor of arboriculture at Harvard university from 1879, and editor of Garden and Forest from 1888. He is the author of The Silva of North America; Report on the Forests of North America: The Woods of the United States; and Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan.
Sargent, Dudley Allen
medical examiner, lecturer, inventor, author, was born Sept. 28, 1849, in Belfast, Maine. He received the degrees of A. B., A. M. and S. D. from Bowdoin college; and the degree of M. D. from Yale college. He is the director of the Hemenway gymnasium of the Harvard university at Cambridge, Mass. He has been president of the American association for the Advancement of Physical Education; has invented various gymnastic appliances; has lectured extensively on physical training; and is the author of a number of works on these topics.
Sargent, Epes
journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 27, 1813, in Gloucester, Mass. He was a once prominent Boston journalist and poet, who perhaps will be longest remembered by the familiar poem, Life on the Ocean Wave.
His verse includes, Songs of the Sea; Poems; and The Woman who Dared. In fiction he published, Wealth and Worth; What's to be Done?; Fleetwood; and Pe- He culiar, a tale of the Great Rebellion. wrote the dramas, Bride of Genoa; Velasco; Change Makes Change; and The Priestess. His miscellaneous writings comprise, Life of Henry Clay; American Adventures by Land and Sea; Arctic Adventures by Sea and Land; Original Dialogues; Planchette, the Despair of Science; and Memoir of Franklin. He edited a popular series of school and critical editions of many English poets, and Harper's Cyclopedia of Poetry. He died Dec. 31, 1880, in Boston, Mass.
Sargent, Fitzwilliam
physician, surgeon, author, was born May 17, 1820, in Gloucester, Mass. He is a Philadelphia surgeon who went to live in Switzerland in 1854; and is the author of Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery.
Sargent, George Henry
manufacturer, was born Oct. 29, 1828, in Worcester, Mass. In 1853 he joined his brother, Joseph Bradford Sargent in the manufacture of hardware. His principal factories were established in 1863, and being enlarged from time to time now represent an investment of millions of dollars and stand as a monumental instance of the progress and growth of American manufactures during the past forty years.
Sargent, Henry
artist, was born Nov. 25, 1770, in Gloucester, Mass. He is widely known through his engraving, The Landing of the Pilgrims. He died Feb. 21, 1845, in Boston, Mass.
Sargent, Henry Winthrop
horticulturist, author, was born Nov. 26, 1810, in Boston, Mass. He was a noted horticulturist of Fishkill, N. Y.; and the author of Skeleton Routes through England, etc.; and Treatise on Landscape Gardeńing. He died Nov. 10, 1882, in Hudson, N. Y.
Sargent, Horace Binney
soldier, was born June 30, 1821, in Quincy, Mass.
During the civil war he served with distinction, and was brevetted brigadier-general.
Sargent, James
inventor, was born Dec. 1, 1824, in Chester, Vt. He invented a lock that was proof against professional skill, for which, in 1865, he received a patent. He then established himself in Rochester, N. Y., where he began its manufacture. In 1873 he invented the timelocks that bear his name, which were the first ever successfully used in this country.
Sargent, John Osborne
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Sept. 20, 1811, in Gloucester, Mass. He was a lawyer and journalist of New York city. He translated Grün's Last Knight; and published, also, Papers for the Times by a Berkshire Farmer; and Horatian Echoes; Translation of the Odes of Horace. He died in 1891.
Sargent, John Singer
artist, was born in 1856 in Italy. Among his figurepieces are Fishing for Oysters at Cancale; and Neapolitan Children Bathing. He is especially noted for his excellent portraits.
Sargent, Lucius Manlius
author, was born June 25, 1786, in Boston, Mass.
He was a once prominent temperance advocate of Boston; and the author of Temperance Tales, a very popular work; Dealings with the Dead; The Irrepressible Conflict; Hubert and Ellen; and Other Poems; and Translations from the Minor Latin Poets. He died June 2, 1867, in West Roxbury, Mass.
Sargent, Nathan
lawyer, journalist, jurist, author, was born May 5, 1794, in Pultney, Vt. In 1830 he went to Philadelphia and established a whig newspaper. He subsequently became the Washington correspondent of the United States Gazette of Philadelphia. He was register of the treasury from 1851 to 1853; and in 1861 was appointed commissioner of customs, and held the position until 1871. At the time of his death he was president of the Washington reform school, and his last literary labor was the preparation of a work entitled Public Men and Events.
He also wrote Life of Henry Clay. He died Feb. 2, 1875, in Washington, D. C.