Savage, Edward Hartwell – Sawyer, George Small
Savage, Edward Hartwell
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 18, 1812, in Alstead, N. H. He was a Boston policeman and justice of the peace; and the author of Boston Police Recollections; and Five Thousand Boston Events, 1630- 1880.
Savage, George Martin
clergyman, educator, was born Feb. 5, 1849, in Tishomingo county, Miss. This eminent clergyman has been president of the Southwestern Baptist university of Jackson, Tenn., since 1890; and for twentyfive years has been pastor of various baptist churches.
Savage, James
lawyer, genealogist, author, was born July 13, 1784, in Boston, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer eminent as a genealogist. He is best known as the author of a Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, upon which twenty years of labor were expended. He died March 8, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Savage, James Woodruff
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 2, 1826, in Bedford, N. H. In 1847 he graduated from Havard university with the degree of B. A.; and in 1850 was admitted to the bar in New York city. In 1861 he was commissioned captain in the regular army and assigned as aid-decamp to the staff of General Fremont.
He was subsequently promoted to major, lieutenant-colonel and became colonel of the twelfth New York volunteer cavalry.
In 1867 he moved to Omaha, Neb.; and in 1875, was elected judge of the third judicial district, and in 1879 received the election for a second term. In 1885 he was appointed a government director of the Union Pacific Railway company. He has written extensively articles on historical and law subjects, and is a member of various historical societies of New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Missouri.
Savage, John
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1779 in New York. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1814; and from 1815 to 1819 was a representative in congress from that state. He subsequently held the positions of district attorney, comptroller of the state, chief justice of the supreme court of New York, and treasurer of the United States for New York. He was a presidential elector in 1845. He died Oct. 19, 1863, in Utica, N. Y.
Savage, John
journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 13, 1828, in Ireland, He was a journalist of New York city, and subsequently of Washington. He was the author of Poems; Picturesque Ireland; Lays of the Folkstead; Modern Revolutionary History of Ireland; Our Living Representative Men; Life of Andrew Johnson; Fenian Heroes and Martyrs; Sibyl, a tragedy; and several other plays. He died Dec. 13, 1828, in Dublin, Ireland.
Savage, John Houston
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1815, in McMinnville Tenn. He was attorney-general of the fourth district of Tennessee in 1841, and held the office until 1847. He was elected a representative in congress in 1849; was re-elected in 1851; and was again elected to congress in 1855 and 1857.
Savage, John S
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1841, in Clermont county, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1865; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress.
Savage, Minot Judson
clergyman, author, poet, was born June 10, 1841, in Norridgewock, Maine. He was educated principally at Bowdoin college; and in 1864 graduated at the Bangor Theological seminary. He has been a congregational missionary in California; has been pastor of the several prominent churches; and is now pastor of the church of the Unity of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Christianity the Science of Manhood; Beliefs About Man; Belief in God; God; Life Questions; Poems; The Religion of Evolution; The Religion of Morals; Talks About Jesus; The Modern Sphinx; Man, Woman and Child; Social Problems; My Creed; Religious Reconstruction; Signs of the Times; Helps for Daily Living; Four Great Questions Concerning God; The Evolution of Christianity; Is This a Good World?; Jesus and Modern Life; A Man; Light on the Cloud; Bluffton, a novel; and The Minister's Handbook.
Savage, Philip Henry
author, poet, was born in 1868 in Massachusetts.
He is a Boston writer; and the author of First Poems and Fragments.
Savage, Richard Henry
author, poet, was born in 1846 in New York. He is the author of My Official Wife; For Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; The Anarchist; Delilah of Harlem; In the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of Lagunitas; The Masked Venus; The Flying Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mariquita; and After Many Years, and Other Poems.
Savage, William Henry
soldier, educator, clergyman, author, poet, was born Sept. 27, 1833, in Woolwich, Maine.
During the civil war he was a captain in the seventeenth regiment Maine volunteer infantry. He has become distinguished as an eminent clergyman, and now fills a pastorate in Watertown, Mass. He has published numerous sermons, essays, and poems.
Savitz, Jerohn Joseph
educator, was born Jan. 1, 1866, in Easton, Pa. He attended the Kutztown Normal school; Fayette college for three years; and took a course at the Illinois Wesleyan university, and at Wooster, Ohio. Since 1882 he has been engaged in educational work, and for the past seven years has been supervising principal of schools of Slatington, Pa. He received the degree of A. M. from Ursinus university in 1893.
Sawtelle, Charles Greene
soldier, was born May 10, 1834, in Norridgewock. In 1864 he was in charge of steam transportation in the department of the gulf, and was chief quartermaster in the military division of west Mississippi in 1864-65.
Sawtelle, Cullen
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in Norridgewock, Maine. He served eight years as register of probate; was a state senator during the years 1843 and 1844; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1849 to 1851.
Sawtelle, Henry Allen
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 11, 1832, in Sidney, Maine. He was a baptist clergyman of San Francisco and elsewhere; and the author of Open Communion; and Things to Think Of. He died Nov. 22, 1885, in Waterville, Maine.
Sawtelle, Lelia Robinson
lawyer, author, was born July 23, 1850, in Boston, Mass. She was a successful lawyer of Boston, Mass., and author of Law Made Easy; and the Law of Husband and Wife. She died Aug. 10, 1891.
Sawyer, Mrs. Catharine Me-
HETABEL [FISHER], author, was born Dec. 8, 1812, in Newton, Mass. She is the author of The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition. For many years she was editor of The Ladies' Repository.
Sawyer, Claude Epaminondas
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 25, 1851, in Sawyers Mills, S. C. For four years he served as a member of the South Carolina legislature; was presidential elector in 1888; and has filled various other public positions of honor. He was a member of the historic Wallace house in 1876, and took a prominent part in behalf of peace in quelling the riots of 1876. He was subsequently colonel on Hampton Wade's staff, and on the staffs of several succeeding governors. While a member of the legislature he took an important part in the deliberations of that body.
For many years he was official reporter of the second judicial circuit; is the editor of a monthly magazine; and prominent in masonry and other fraternal orders at Aiken, S. C. a
Sawyer, Elbert H
soldier, clergyman, educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 18, 1843, in Milford, Mich.
He received his education in the public schools, Fenton seminary, Kalamazoo college, the La Grange college of Missouri, and the Theological seminary of Chicago. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been a clergyman; for ten years a college professor and president; for four years was president of the Baptist convention of Colorado; in 1889 was president of the baptist ministers' conference at St. Louis; and now resides in Kirkwood, Mo. During the war he served as a private soldier in the eighth regiment Michigan volunteer infantry; was wounded by shell in his right hand at Antietam; and was conspicuous in the charge of the slope and in protecting regimental colors.
Sawyer, Frederick Adolphus
educator, United States senator, was born Dec. 12, 1822, in Boston, Mass. In 1859 he went to Charleston, S. C., and had charge of the normal school there until 1861. He was elected a senator in congress from South Carolina for the term ending in 1873; and was subsequently appointed assistant secretary of the treasury.
Sawyer, Frederick William
lawyer, author, was born April 22, 1810, in Saco, Maine. He was a Boston lawyer; and the author of Merchant's and Chipmaster's Guide; Plea for Amusements; and Hits at American Whims. He died in 1875 in Boston, Mass.
Sawyer, George Small
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1841, in Standish, Maine. In 1862 he was admitted to the bar in Maine; in 1864 was elected district attorney of Ormsby county, Nev.; and in 1870 was made district attorney of Lincoln county. During 1889-91 he served with distinction as a member of the state senate of Nevada. In 1884 he was elected superintendent of schools; and in 1894 was a candidate for attorneygeneral of Nevada on the populist ticket.