Page images
PDF
EPUB

Sadler, Wilbur Fisk, Jr., banker, financier; adj. gen. of N.J.; Broad St. National Bank, Trenton, N.J., was born Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4, 1871; son of Wilbur F. and Sarah E. (Sterrett) Sadler; educated in public schools of Carlisle, Pa., Lawrenceville, N.J., and Dickinson Coll. Built thirty miles of street railway in Schuylkill County, Pa., between Mahanoy City, Shenandoah and Ashland; street railways from Carbondale to Scranton; Greensburg to Irwin; Philadelphia to Trenton; Morrisville to Yardley, all in Pa., and Trenton to Princeton, N.J.; consolidated several electric light, water and gas plants; pres. Broad St. Nat. Bank, Trenton, N.J. Major Pay Dept., Gen. Collins' staff; aide on Gov. Fort's staff; adj. gen. State of N.J., since April 15, 1909. Organized Trenton Chamber of Commerce and was first pres. Republican: Episcopalian. Vestryman St. Michael's Church.

Sadlier, James E., born Walden, N.Y., 1865; parents, James and Ann Jeannette; married Hattie C. Millspaugh, June 18, 1891; educated Common Schools, Montgomery and New Paltz Academies; grad. Albany Med. Coll., 1887; lic. New York State; PostGrad. Johns Hopkins Hosp., Baltimore, Md.; ex-vice pres. Amer. Assoc. Obstet. and Gynecologists; Surg.-in-Chief The Sadlier Hosp.; Cons. Surg. Highland Hosp.; mem. N.Y. State; A.M.A.; Assoc. Obstet. and Gynecol.; N.Y. Acad. Med.; Dutchess Co. Med.; Poughkeepsie Acad. Med.; Regular; spec. Surgery and Gynecology. Residence: 295 Mill St., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; 2—4 and 7-8 p. m.; Tel. N.Y. 144.

Sadtler, Samuel Schmucker, of 39 S. Tenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Chemistry. Was born, Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 15, 1873. B.S., Mass. Inst. Tech., 1895. Chemist, U.S. Customs Service, 1895-1900; consulting chemist, 1900-. Chem. Soc.; Soc. Chem. Indust.; Electrochem. Soc. (secy., 1904-07, vice-pres., 1910-13); Chem. Eng.; Franklin Inst.; Am. Ed. Allen's Com. Org. Chem., 4th Edit.; author Chem. Familiar Things. Analytical, industrial and technical chemistry.-Organic chemistry.

Sague, John Kelsey, mayor of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was born Jan. 30, 1866, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was major in the First New York Volunteer Infantry and major in the First Infantry of the National Guard of New York. He is now president of the Municipal Government Association State of New York and Mayor of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Saleeby, Najeeb Mitry, physician and author of Manila, P.I., was born Feb. 7, 1870, in Lebanon, Syria. In 1898-1901 he was acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army; in 1901-03 he was captain and assistant surgeon of the United States Volunteers; in 1903-06 he was superintendent of schools for the Moro Province, Mindanao, P.I.; and in 1907-11 he was surgeon in charge of the University hospital at Manila. He is the author of The History of Sulu; Studies in Moro History, Law and Religion; Sulu Reader; The Moro Problem; Origin of the Malayan Filipinos and other works.

Sampers, Isidore H., editor, 195 Fulton St., New York City; residence: 22 Hamilton Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. Born in New York City, Sept. 27, 1865. Educated in public schools, at St. Francis

[ocr errors]

Xavier College and St. Mary's College, Montreal, Canada. (Married.) Editor and business manager "Courrier des Etats-Unis,' and has been interested and connected with same in many capacities since 1884. Member: Catholic Club, Dunwoodie Country Club and Siwanoy Golf Club.

Sanderson, William K., general freight agent, Maine Central Rd. Office: Portland, Me. Born at Vienna, Me. Educated at Hallowell Classical and Scientific Academy at Hallowell, Me. Entered railway service 1881 as telegraph operator Maine Central Rd., since which he has been consecutively to June, 1898, telegraph operator, station agent and local freight agent same road, Eastern Rd. and Boston & Maine Rd.; June, 1898, to Jan., 1899, assistant general freight agent Maine Central Rd.; Jan., 1899 to date, general freight agent same road.

Sands, Charles A., banker; born Berlin, Wis., Aug. 12, 1866; son of John and Mary (Finnigan) Sands; educated in public schools; married, Des Moines, Iowa, 1888, Kathryn Sullivan; two children. Was in hardware business fifteen years. President First National Bank of Adrian, Minn. Was village clerk ten years; mayor two years. Democrat; Catholic. President Board of Education; president Commercial Club. Recreation: Fishing. Address: Adrian.

Sands, William Franklin, diplomatist of Central Aguiree Company of Porto Rico, was born July 29, 1874, in Washington, D.C. He was educated at Georgetown, St. Michel, Fribourg, Switzerland, and Georgetown University, receiving the degrees of A.B. and LL.B. He was in the American Diplomatic Service in 18961900; adviser to the Emperor of Korea in 1900-04; American Diplomatic Service, Panama, Central-America and Mexico in 1904-09; Central American and Mexico, 1904-09; and American. Minister to Guatemala, July 10, 1909. He received the cross of the Legion of Honor of France for protection of French Missionaries in Quaelpaert, during Boxer troubles in China. Is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France; Companion (second class) of the Loyal Legion; member of the American Society of International Law; American Geographical Society and Mexico Society of Geography & Statistics.

Sanford, Alfred F., publisher; born Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 21, 1875; English and Swiss descent; son of Edward J. and Emma (Chavannes) Sanford; father's occupation, wholesale druggist, railroad president; paternal grandparents, John W. and Altha (Fanton) Sanford; maternal grandparents, Albert and Anna (Francillon) Chavannes; educated University of Tenn.; married Eleanor S. Spence Nov. 5, 1903; member Cumberland Club, Cherokee Country Club; Republican; former manager Knoxville Brick Co., president and manager Journal and Tribune Co., vicepresident Sanford Chamberlain-Albers Co., secretary and treasurer Knoxville Office Co., vice-president Knox Printing & Box Co., vice-president Sanford Day Iron Works, vice-president Knoxville Brick Co., director E. T. National Bank, Knoxville Iron Co., Lenoir City Co., Coal Creek Mfg. Co., Poplar Creek Coal & Iron Co., member Episcopal church.

Sanford, Stephen, manufacturer and business president of Amsterdam, N.Y., was born May 26, 1826, in Mayfield, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools; at the academy of Amsterdam, N.Y.; at the Georgetown College of the District of Columbia, and for two years was student at West Point. In 1844 he entered the carpet manufacturing business of his father, which is now one of the largest establishments of its kind in the country. He founded the Amsterdam Reservoir Co., by which a thousand acres of land have been flooded by the waters of the Chunctanunda Creek, supplying water power for its own and other manufactories. He is president of the Amsterdam Reservoir Co., president of the Chunctanunda Gas Light Co., president of the Amsterdam National Bank and president of the Greenhill Cemetery Association. He is an agriculturist and a breeder of horses and cattle. In 1869-71 he was a representative from New York to the forty-first congress as a republican. He founded a home for elderly women of Montgomery County and presented it to the city of Amsterdam, N.Y. He also built the Children's Home and has been a large contributor to the hospitals and churches of his community and resides in Amsterdam, N.Y.

Sanger, William Cary, publicist of Sangerfield, N.Y.; born New York, May 21, 1853; son of Henry and Mary E. (Requa) Sanger; graduate of Harvard University, A.B., 1874; A.M., 1875; Columbia Law School, LL.B., 1878; Hamilton College, LL.D., 1902; married, New York City, Feb. 23, 1892, Mary Ethel Cleveland Dodge. Children: William Cary, Jr., born Feb. 8, 1893; Henry Lawrence, born July 13, 1894; Mary Ethel, born July 29, 1895; John Haynes, born July 22, 1905. Was member state assembly, 1895-97; lieutenant-colonel 203d Regiment, New York Volunteers, in Spanish-American War; assistant secretary of war, 1901-03; president American delegation to international conference, 1906, to revise the Treaty of Geneva. Member American delegation of international red cross conference, London, 1907; chairman National Guard commission appointed by Governor Hughes, 1907. Presidential elector, 1908; member New York state commission in lunacy, 1910. Became chairman State Hospital commission in 1912; was designated by the President of the United States to receive on behalf of the United States Government the lighthouse at Crown Point; has served as trustee of Hamilton College, as chancellor of the New York Chapter, Colonial Order of Acorn, as governor of the New York Society of Colonial Wars. Author: "The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces of England and the Militia of Switzerland" (a report prepared for the United States Government), 1903; contributor to military journals on coast defenses, etc.

Sargent, John Attee, vice-president and general manager Missouri & Louisville Rd. and traffic manager Central Coal & Coke Co. Office: Kansas City, Mo. Born March 1, 1867, at Connersville, Ind. Educated at the Kansas State University at Lawrence, Kan., 1881-84. Entered railway service 1884 as clerk in general freight office Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Rd., since which he has been, 1887 to Nov. 10, 1888, chief clerk same department;

Nov. 10, 1888, to Dec. 1, 1889, commercial agent St. Louis & San Francisco Rd. at Kansas City, Mo.; Dec. 1, 1889, to July 1, 1896, assistant general freight agent Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Rd.; July 1, 1896, to Oct. 15, 1898, general freight agent Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf Rd.; Oct. 15, 1898, to Nov. 1, 1899, traffic manager the American Cotton Co. at St. Louis, Mo.; Nov. 1, 1899, to July 1, 1900, clerk general freight department Great Northern Ry. at St. Paul, Minn.; July 1, 1900, to May 1, 1902, assistant general freight agent same road; May 1, 1902, to date, traffic manager Central Coal & Coke Co. and vice-president and general manager Missouri & Louisiana Rd.

Sargent, Roscoe, lawyer, of Sandy Creek, N.Y., was born Sandy Creek, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1873; son of Edmund L. and Marcia (Knollin) Sargent; educated in Sandy Creek High School, 1893; two years' classical course at Colgate Univ.; grad. Syracuse Univ. Law School, LL.B., 1898; married, Lacona, N.Y., May 2, 1894, Nettie Blodgett; children: Knollin Maurford, born Nov. 19, 1895; Celia Marjorie, born Aug. 18, 1897; Howard Albert, born April 19, 1907. Began practice of law Jan., 1899; in partnership with brother, L. Carl Sargent, under firm name of Sargent & Sargent, with offices in Syracuse and Sandy Creek, N.Y., since Oct., 1912. Atty. for and dir. First Nat. Bank of Lacona. Republican; Methodist. Steward and supt. Sunday school, Sandy Creek M.E. Church since 1899; sec. local branch of Dairymen's League; member Bd. of Edn. of Sandy Creek High School.

Saulsbury, Willard, lawyer, financier; born in Delaware, April 17, 1861; son of Willard and Ann Milby (Ponder) Saulsbury. Attended University of Virginia; married, Wilmington, Del., 1893, May du Pont. Consolidated all Wilmington, Del., street railways and electric light companies; organized the Equitable Guarantee and Trust Co., of which is a director. Senior member of law firm of Saulsbury & Morris; director Union National Bank and various other corporations. Member national democratic committee, also of executive committee of national democratic committee; democratic caucus nominee for United States senator, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1911, and elected senator from Delaware, January, 1913. Episcopalian. Member American Bar Association; twice president of local bar association; chairman censor committee. Vice-president Delaware AntiTuberculosis Society; member Delta Psi fraternity, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of American Revolution. Recreation: Golf. Clubs: Wilmington, Wilmington Country, Manhattan, St. Anthony, National Democratic (New York City), Chevy Chase (Washington).

Saunders, Charles G., lawyer and chancellor, of 95 Milk St., Boston, Mass., was born Oct. 3, 1847, in Lawrence, Mass. He is president of the Harvard Musical Association; chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral of Boston, and president of Harvard Club at Lawrence. He has attained prominence at the bar and has filled important positions in the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts.

Saunders, Edward Watts, congressman, was born in Franklin County, Va., Oct. 25, 1860. He became judge of the seventh circuit, and while serving in that position was elected to fill the vacancy in the fifty-ninth congress, and to the sixtieth, sixtyfirst and sixty-second congresses, and was re-elected to the sixtythird congress as a Democrat; resides in Rocky Mount, Va.

Savage, Albert R., jurist; born in Ryegate, Vt., Dec. 8, 1847; son of Charles W. and Eliza M. (Clough) Savage. He was educated in Dartmouth College, in the class of 1871, and received the degree of LL.D. from Bates College in 1897. He was a practicing lawyer from 1875; county attorney, 1881-1885; judge of probate, 1885-1889; mayor of Auburn, Me., 1889-1891; representative to the Maine legislature, 1891-1893; speaker of the house, 1893; member of the Maine senate, 1895-1897, and was associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, 1897-1913; chief justice since April, 1913. He is a trustee of Bates College, a 32d degree Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias, and a member of the Calumet Club of Lewiston. Judge Savage married at Lunenburgh, Vt., Aug. 17, 1871, Nellie H. Hale, and they have had three children (all now deceased). His first wife now deceased, he married Frances A. Cooke Sept. 2, 1914. Address: Auburn, Me.

Sawin, Theophilus Parson, Presbyterian clergyman, 120 First St., Troy, N.Y. Born in Lynn, Mass., Jan. 14, 1841. Educated at Kimball Union Academy and at Yale. Received degree of D.D. from Williams College. Married Emeline T. Farel, 1864. Ordained to Congregational ministry in 1871. Held pastorates at Racine and Janesville, Wis., and at Medford, Mass. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy since 1886.

Sawyer, Charles F., banker; born in Minnesota, Jan. 22, 1874; son of Charles L. and Anneta (Hagner) Sawyer; graduated from State High School, Cannon Falls, Minn.; married, Cannon Falls, Minn., Sept. 3, 1901, Joanna L. Libbey; children: Marion, Mildred, Charles and David. Was employed in Citizens' State Bank of Cannon Falls, Minn., 1893, as assistant cashier, remaining until 1903; organized First National Bank of Fosston, 1903, and acted as cashier until Jan., 1905; organized, and cashier until Jan., 1909, of the Bank of Sarles, N.D.; sold, and purchased interest in First National Bank of Goodhue, Minn., of which is now vice-president; organized and is vice-president Farmers State Bk., Bellechester, Minn., also treasurer Farmers' Elevator Co., Goodhue. Republican; Methodist Episcopalian. Mason, Modern Woodman of America and Woodman of World. Address: Goodhue.

Sawyer, James Cowan, treasurer; born, Dover, N.H., March 30, 1872; son of Charles H. and Susan Ellen (Cowan) Sawyer; attended Phillips Academy, 1886-90; Yale College, A..B, 1894; married, Dover, N.H., June 10, 1897, Mary Pepperrel Frost; children: George Frost, Charles Henry. Director Andover National Bank, Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; treasurer and trustee Phillips Academy of Andover. Member board of public works, Andover, Mass., since 1902. Republican; Congregationalist. Address: Andover.

« PreviousContinue »