Sayler, Milton – Schaeffer, Charles Ashmead
Sayler, Milton
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1831, in Lewisburg, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio state legislature in 1862 and 1863, and of the city councils in 1864 and 1865. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses; and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Sayles, Frederic Clark
manufacturer, was born July 17, 1835. He became the partner of his brother in 1863, and was an active co-laborer with him in the development of the Moshassuck bleachery and nearly all the other milling enterprises controlled by the Sayles family. He has served as mayor of Pawtucket, in which city he lives.
Sayles, John
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 9, 1825, in Vernon, N. Y. He was a Texas jurist, and professor in Baylor university from 1880.
He was the author of Practice in the District and Supreme Courts of Texas; Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State of Texas; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of Texas; Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Business; Constitution of Texas, with Notes; and Notes on Texan Reports.
Sayre, David Austen
philanthropist, was born March 12, 1793, in Bottle Hill, N. J. He removed in early life to Lexington, where he became a successful merchant and banker. Though repeatedly meeting with heavy losses, he gave about $500,000 to benevolent objects during his lifetime, including $100,000 to found the Sayre institute. He died Sept. 11, 1870, in Lexington, Ky.
Sayre, Emilius
KITCHELL, educator, lawyer, was born March 20, 1810, in Battle Hill, N. J. He attended the schools of Elizabethtown, N.
J.; received the degree of A. B. from Amherst college in 1826, and the degree of A. M. in 1831 fróm the same institution; and the degree of LL. B. from the Transylvania college in 1833. During 1828- 31 he was a professor in the Washington institute, New York; during 1833-52 was a lawyer in Lexington, Ky.; and since that time has been a farmer in Missouri. During 1861- 63 he was a member of the Missouri state constitutional convention; and has filled various other public positions of honor in Lewis county and the state of Missouri.
Sayre, Lewis Albert
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 29, 1820, in Bottlehill, N. J. He is a distinguished surgeon of New York city, and professor of orthopedic surgery in Bellevue Hospital college. He is the author of a Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot; Lectures on Orthopædic Surgery; and Spinal Curvature and Its Treatment.
Scales, Alfred Moore
JR., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 26, 1827, in Reedsville, N. C. He was elected to the legislature of North Carolina in 1852 and 1856; and in 1857 was elected a representative from his native state to the thirty-fifth congress. He was a presidential elector in 1861; and was elected to the forty-fourth congress. He was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, and fortyeighth congresses. In 1884 he was elected governor of North Carolina for four years.
Scales, John
educator, journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1835, in Nottingham, N. H. He was fitted for college at the Colby university, and graduated from Dartmouth college in 1863. He then engaged in educational work as principal of the Wolfeborough and Gilmanton academies till 1869; and during 1869-83 was principal of the Franklin academy of Dover, N. H. Since 1883 he has been editor of the Dover Daily Republican, the leading republican journal in New Hampshire; has contributed to various publications; and is the author of several works. He has been trustee of the state normal school; and is a member of the school committee of Dover. He is prominent in political affairs; a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Mason; and a member of various fraternal orders.
Scammon, Charles Mellville
navigator, author, was born May 28, 1825, in Pittston, Maine. He is the author of a work on The Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of America and the American Whale Fishery.
Scammon, Eliakim Parker
soldier, educator, was born Dec. 27, 1816, in Whitefield, Maine. He was professor in Mount St. Mary's college of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856-58, and president of the Polytechnic college in that city from 1859- 61. He became colonel of the twenty-third Ohio regiment in 1861, served in western Virginia and Maryland, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers.
Scammon, James
educator, lawyer, litterateur, was born June 10, 1844, in Strathan, N. H., on the old homestead occupied by the family continuously for two hundred and fifty years. He received a thorough education, graduated from the Brown university in 1868, and from the Albany Law school two years later. He has been superintendent of public schools in his native city; and principal in the River Point Classical seminary, Rhode Island. For the past twenty-five years he has been a prominent lawyer of Kansas City, Mo.; has been general counsel of the Kansas City and Eastern Railway company; president of the Franklin Savings bank; and president of the board of managers of the Jackson County Reform school. He is also president of the Speery Associate Electric company; president and chairman of the board of managers of the Kansas City Humane society; president for twenty years of the All Souls Unitarian Church society; and for several years president of the Missouri valley conference of unitarian churches. He is director in a dozen business enterprises; is best known as a lawyer and scholar, and has a library of several thousand volumes. a
Scammon, John F
merchant, banker, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1786, in Saco, Maine. He served in the Massachusetts legislature as a representative during 1817, and in the Maine legislature in 1820 and 1821. He was collector of customs at Saco from 1829 to 1841. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1845 to 1847; and was a state senator in 1855. He died May 23,
Scammon, Jonathan Young
law- 27, 1812, in Whitefield, Maine. He was yer, journalist, statesman, was born July one of the main organizers and directors of the first railroad west of Lake Michigan, now the Northwestern. He laid the foundation of the first successful public school system in Chicago. He was one of the founders of the Chicago Astronomical society, and its first president. In 1872 he established the Chicago Inter Ocean as a republican paper. He founded the Hahnemann hospital and other institutions. He was a member of the Illinois state legislature. He died March 17, 1890, in Chicago, Ill.
Scanlan, Lawrence
clergyman, bishop, was born Sept. 28, 1843, in Ireland.
In 1868 he was ordained a priest in Dublin, and in 1873 was consecrated bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Scanland, Mrs. Agnes Leonard
author, was born Jan. 20, 1842, in Louisville, Ky. She is a writer of Leadville, Colo.; and the author of several works.
Scannell, Richard
bishop, was born May 12, 1844, in Ireland. He is an eminent Roman catholic bishop of Concordia, Kan.
Scarborough, John
bishop of New Jersey, was born April 25, 1831, in Ireland.
He has filled pastorates in Troy and New York city; and became protestant episcopal bishop of New Jersey.
Scarborough, John Catre
soldier, educator, college president, was born Sept. 22, 1841, in Wake county, N. C.
During 1877-85 he was state superintendent of public instruction for North Carolina, and again filled that office during 1893-97. He is now president of the Chowan Baptist Female institute of Murfreesborough, N. C.
Scarborough, William Saund- Ers
educator, author, was born Feb. 16, 1852, in Macon, Ga. He is an educator of African descent, professor of ancient languages in Wilberforce university, Ohio, from 1877; and the author of First Lessons in Greek; and Theory and Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.
Scarbrough, William
planter, inventor, was born Feb. 18, 1776, in Lower Three Runs, S. C. He built the first ocean steam boat, The Savannah, that crossed the Atlantic in 1819. He died June 11, 1838, in New York.
Scates, Thomas A
educator, lawyer, was born Oct. 31, 1859, in Union City, Tenn. He received a thorough education in the high schools of Kansas, and at Eastman's Business college of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He taught school for several years, and for two years was principal of the Kinsley High school, Kansas. He is prominent lawyer of Liberal, Kansas; was county commisa sioner of Seward county for six years; and county attorney for three years. He takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his city, county and state; and is a member of several fraternal orders.
Schaeffer, Charles Ashmead
chemist, college president, was born Aug. 14, 1843, in Harrisburg, Pa. For many years he was professor of chemistry in Cornell university, and is now president of the state university of Iowa.