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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