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Sargent, Lucius Manlius – Satterthwait, Joshua W

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, Winthrop

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 23, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Life of Major André, a work displaying much research.

He also edited the History of Braddock's Expedition, from Original Papers. He died May 18, 1870, in Paris, France.

Sartain, Emily

artist, was born March 17, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is the principal of the Philadelphia school of Design for women. She gained a medal in 1876 at the Centennial exhibition for her painting entitled Reproof.

Sartain, Samuel

engraver, was born Oct. 8, 1830, in Philadelphia. His prints include Clear the Track; Christ blessing Little Children; One of the Chosen; Christ stilling the Tempest; The Song of the Angels; Evangeline; and various portraits after Thomas Sully, John Neagle, and others.

Sartain, William

artist, educator, was born Nov. 21, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has been professor in various art institutes and received a silver medal from Boston and from the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts. His pictures have a place in several of the public art galleries.

Sartwell, Henry Parker

physician, botanist, author, was born April 1, 1792, in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a botanist and physician of Penn Yan, N. Y., who from 1840 devoted his attention to the genus Carex. His herbarium of more than eight thousand specimens is in Hamilton college. He is the author of Carices Americanæ Exsiccatæ. He died Nov. 15, 1867, in Penn Yan, N. Y.

Sasnett, William Jacob

clergyman, educator, was born April 29, 1820, in Hancock, Ga. He was professor of English in Emory college, Georgia, in 1849- 57; president of Lagrange female college in 1858, and the next year became principal of East Alabama college in Auburn. He died Nov. 3, 1865, in Montgomery, Ala.

Satterfield, David Junkin

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Oct. 16, 1844, in Pulaski, Pa. He received his education in the Princeton college of New Jersey and the Western Theological seminary of Allegheny, Pa. During 1873-85 he was pastor of the presbyterian church of Beaver, Pa.; and since 1886 has been president of the Scotia seminary of Concord, N. C.

Satterlee, Francis Le Roy

physician, author, was born June 15, 1847, in New York city. Since 1869 he has been professor of chemistry, materia medica and therapeutics in the New York college of Dentistry, and is the author of The Treatment of Erysipelas; and a Treatise on Gout and Rheumatism.

Satterlee, Walter

artist, was born Jan. 18, 1844, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1886 he gained the Clarke prize at the academy. Among his works are the oil paintings, Contemplation, in Smith college, Northampton, Mass.; Extremes Meet, and The Convent Composer: Autumn; Good-bye Summer; and Fortune by Tea Leaves. His pencil has been frequently employed in book illustration, and he is well known as a teacher.

Satterthwait, Joshua W

business man legislator, was born March 29, 1835, in Senecaville, Ohio. He is a successful druggist of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; was trustee of the Iowa State Normal school for twelve years; and served with distinction as a member of the thirteenth general assembly of the Iowa state legislature.

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