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Sawyer, John Gilbert

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 5, 1825, in Brandon, Vt. He was a justice of the peace in Albion from 1852 to 1858; was district attorney of Orleans county from 1863 to 1866; and was judge and surrogate of Orleans county from 1868 to 1884. In the latter year he was elected a representative from Vermont to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.

Sawyer, Leicester Ambrose

educator, clergyman, author, was born July 28, 1807, in Pinckney, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman and educator, after 1860 a resident of Whitesboro, N. Y.; and the author of Elements of Biblical Interpretation; Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; A Critical Exposition of Baptism; Organic Christianity; and Reconstruction of Bible Theories. He made a translation of the Scriptures, of which the New Testament was published.

Sawyer, Lorenzo

lawyer, jurist, was born May 23, 1820, in Le Roy, N. Y.

In 1854 he was elected attorney for San Francisco; and was afterward appointed judge of the district court for the state.

In 1863 he was elected one of the justices of the supreme court of the state; was chief justice from 1868 to 1870; and in the latter year was commissioned United States circuit judge for the ninth circuit, residing in San Francisco, Cal.

Sawyer, Lucy Sargent

missionary, was born April 3, 1840, in Belfast, Maine. Her whole life has been spent in mission work; and in 1882 she was elected president of the Woman's Home Missionary society.

Sawyer, Moses Havens

lawyer, author, was born June 6, 1827, in Mystic, Conn. In 1886 he was appointed United States consul at Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of Lieutenant Colburn; History of Annexation of Tobago; Judicature; Mortgages; Desertion of Seamen, Immigration and Ornithology.

Sawyer, S. T

journalist, congressman, was born in 1800 in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He was appointed collector of customs at Norfolk, Va.; and was subsequently editor of the Norfolk Argus. He died Nov. 29, 1865, in New Jersey.

Sawyer, Samuel L

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1813, in Mount Vernon, N. H. He moved to Missouri in 1838; and was elected circuit attorney in 1848, and re-elected in 1852. He was elected a circuit judge in 1871, and reelected in 1874. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth congress as an independent democrat.

Sawyer, Sylvanus

inventor, was born April 15, 1822, in Templeton, Mass.

His inventions have entirely revolutionized the chair-cane business; and in 1853 he invented improvements in rifle and cannon projectiles.

Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson

educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1804, in Reading, Vt. He is a universalist clergyman and educator, and after 1869 a professor of theology at Tufts college. He is the author of Doctrine of Eternal Salvation; Who Is God, -the Son or the Father?; and Endless Punishment in the Very Words of Its Advocates.

Sawyer, Willard S

musician, composer, was born Sept. 4, 1860, in New York city. He is a teacher of the piano and violin in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and the author of Sawyer's Piano Student's Practice Records.

Sawyer, William

congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1849.

Saxe, Jacob Bradford

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1819, in Greenfield, N. Y. Since 1843 he has been a successful clergyman of the universalist church, and now fills a pastorate in Fort Scott, Kan. He is a constant contributor to various publications; and is the author of a volume entitled The Organic Laws.