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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.

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.

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.