nlUTKAKIKS, A.MKUICAN. (RoTCE-SAWYER.) 



Ktni,, wall "in lM-,4. In ls70-T2he won in charge 



of the imiirliul-. nl New < >rleaiis. 



Hoyoe, Homer Elihu, jurist, l.rn in l',,ik-l: 

 .him- II. Is-jo; died iii St. A.lb*nft,Vt, Aprif M,18M 

 i\ed an nrailrmirul education ; w iis admitted 

 to the l.ur in ISH : was prosecutiiii: attorney for the 

 Stut.- in ls|f, 'IV; ami was Stair Senator in'lK49-*51. 

 In I-.V, an. I Is.'.s he .i- elected fi < 'oiiL'rcs>. where 

 .1 a-- a member n|' tin- ( 'oliimittcr "II Forcitril 

 A Mail's; mid in 1 S 7<> In- was chosen an associate ju~ 

 tin- nl' tin- Supreme Court of Vi-niioiit. He held this 

 otli.-i' till lss-_, tt| u . M In- was a|>]iint-.l chief justice, 

 ainl .-ervcd as Mirli till impaired health caused him to 

 resiirn in IMIO. 



Safford, Mary Jane, physician, born in \'i-nn..nt, 

 about lMi>; Uied in l'ari>on Springs. Flu., I>i-r. s . 

 1891. Fur s.-\ t-ral \ car> she resided with her brother 

 in Cairn. III., wln-iv she established n free school ami 

 tauirht till the lieirinniliir 't' the eivil war. Through 

 personal ae.|llailltaliee with President Lincoln ainl 

 Gen. (i rant she seemvil permission to go to the seat 

 of war as so. >n as hostilities hei:aii, ami w as ereilite.l 

 with belli;.' the tirst woman ! a.linini.ster relief to the 

 wouii.le.l on the tiel.l of Iwtth- ill the war. I!i Ton- 

 its close her stivnirth irave way anil she went to Eu- 

 rope t'-T rest, tin her return she spent three years 

 studying medicine iii New York city, ami was grad- 

 uated at the Collc-rc and Hospital tor Women. Re- 

 ccivini: permlwion tO enter the nie.lieal ilepartment 

 of the University of Vienna the first ever grunted to 

 a woman she spent nearly three years studying 

 then- an.l in various hospitals in Europe. She then 

 settled in Chicago to practice, but soon removed t<> 

 Most. .11. In Is;:;, on the establishment of the Boston 

 University School of Medicine, she was appointed a 

 -.>r of Diseases of Women, and held the chair 

 till isss. when she settled, in Turpon Springs. 



St. John, Charles, merchant, born in Mount Hope, 

 Orange Count v, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1818; died in Port 

 lervis, N. Y., .luly 6, 1891. He received a commou- 

 school education, YiiiraL'cd in lumbering on Delaware 

 river, subse.iuently carried on a .ircncral mercantile 

 business, and afterward established a lumbering plant 

 on Susiiuehanna river near Williamsport, Pa., ami be- 

 came the second largest individual operator in lum- 

 ber in the world. In 1870 and 1872 he was elected to 

 Congress from the 12th New York District as a Re- 

 publican, and lie served on the committees on Public 

 Lands and on Expenditures in the State Department. 

 In Isso ),,. was a presidential elector. 



Sands, Samuel, publisher, born in Annapolis. M.I.. 

 in 1800; died in Baltimore. Md., Julv 28,1891. In 

 1811 he was apprenticed to the printers trade, and in 

 1814, while working in the office of the Baltimore 

 " American," he put into type, fresh from the author's 

 hands, the song of "The Star-spangled Banner." 

 When sixteen years old he was foreman of the " Amer- 

 ican's" composing-room, and he remained there till 

 he went into business for himself as publisher of 

 "The American Farmer" in 1819, one of the first 

 agricultural papers in the United States. He also es- 

 tablished "The Morning Chronicle,'' a daily news- 

 paper; in 1836 published " The Freeman's Banner," 

 in which he advocated the election to the presidency 

 of William Henry Harrison; in 18(59 established 

 "The Real Estate ' Register," and in 1872 "The Ru- 

 ral Register." He had been a stanch Whig, a war 

 Democrat, and a xculous Republican. With his son, 

 Samuel K. Sands, he remained an editor and pub- 

 lisher of "The American Fanner" till the time of 

 his death. 



Sanford, Henry Shelton, diplomatist, born in Wood- 

 bury, Conn., .lime !.">. Is-jr, ; died in Healinir Springs, 

 Va.'. May _'!, l-'.'l. lie received a partial collegiate 

 education in the United States, and studied at II. i 

 del her-: rniversity; tirst entered the I'nitcd States 

 diplomatic service in 1847 as an U<i'-h> to the lega- 

 tion at St. Petersburg, under Ralph .1. Ingersoll ; was 

 acting secretary of legation in Istsat Frankfort un- 

 der Andrew .1. I>onelsoii. and was secretary of lega- 

 tion at 1'nris from 1849 till 1854. In 1861 he was ap- 



mmi.-t.-r to I',i li/miii, where he remained 

 fight yearn, became an intimate ac<|uuiiituin < .l tho 



Kiln.', and rendered Much important -i-r\i--> to tin- 

 : (loM-riiim nt durinir the civil w ar that Secre- 

 -waid |.ionoiineed him "tin- mini.t< r of ihi: 

 1'nited StatcM in Europ. nt .lnlitiiw>ii nomi- 



nated him for a second term in ISeli:ium, I'i. 

 (Jratit for the Spanish mission, and President lla\i-i 

 renewed the nomination for Belgium, but tin - 



rejected him each time. He negotiated the lirst |n.stal 



convention \vitli Friim-e, and the celebrated Scheldt 

 treaty of commeree and navigation; founded the city 

 of Sanford, Flu., in 1*7; was I'nitcd Mates eominin- 

 Moiier on the CoiiL'o Ui\er I'oliitiN in l v -:,. mid dele- 

 gate to the International CoOttO ConieRDOe i 1 

 and was a delegate to the Anti.-la\er\ i 

 Brussels in Iss;, 



Sawyer, Charles Carroll, son..' writer, born in V 

 Conn., in \*:',:\: died in Brooklyn. N. Y.. <>.-t. :;.'l>-'.l. 

 lie accompanied his parents to N, \\ York city in 

 bovhood; beL'aii writini: sonnetH -vhen twel\. 

 old, and durintr the civil war comj>ot>ed many honjrn, 

 which, from the absence of sectional si-ntnm : 

 came very jMipular among the soldiei> o| both arn.ies. 

 His best' known songs are " Wlicn this Cruel War 

 is over," "Who will care for Mother now?" and 

 " Mother would comfort me." 



Sawyer, Frederick Adolphus, Senator, born in Bolton, 



Mass., Dec. \-2. 1 *_'_': died ill Sewalicc. Tenn., July :;l, 

 1891. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1844, 

 taught for several years in Maine, New Hampshire, and 

 .Ma.aelmsetts, and in Is.V.i took charge of tne Normal 

 School in Charleston. S. C. In 1864 he and his fam- 

 ih- were allowed to pass througli the lines and return 

 North, and the same year he tot'ik the stump in New 

 England in advocacy of President Lincoln's re-elec- 

 tion. He returned to Charleston in lS<i'>, and became 

 active in advancing reconstruction measures. In 

 May of that year he was appointed collector of in- 

 ternal revenue in the 2d South Carolina District. He 

 was elected to the State Constitutional Convention 

 under the reconstruction acts of C<IIH,M-C>S, but de- 

 clined to serve, and was elected United States Sena- 

 tor in 1868. In the Senate he was a member of the 

 committees on Private Land claims. Education, Pen- 

 sions, and on Appropriations. At the close of his 

 term, in 1873, he was appointed assistant secretary 

 of the treasury, and he held the office about a year. 

 Soon after th'e appointment of Gen. Benjamin 11. 

 Bristow to be Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Sawyer 

 and other Treasury officials were charged with having 

 procured the payment of a fraudulent cotton claim 

 while employed in the department. The officials 

 wen- convicted and sent to jail ; but on a second trial 

 it was shown that Mr. Sawyer had received none of 

 the money, and lie was ae.juittcd. 



Sawyer, Lorenio, jurist, born in Jefferson County, 

 N. Y., in iM'ii; died in San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 7, 

 1891. He was brought up on a farm till sixteen years 

 old, taught school, and attended for a short time the 

 Western IJcserve College. Studied law. was admit- 

 ted to the bar, and in 1850 went to California as a 

 member of the "Badger Train." He practiced at 

 different times in Sacramento, Nevada City, and San 

 Fran.-iseo, WJLS elected city attorney of the latter city 

 in 1854, and lacked only six votes t., secure the nom- 

 ination for judge of the Supreme Court in ls;,t;. In 

 iSi'i-J he was appointed judire of the 1-Jtli Judicial 

 District of California to fill a vacancy, and all. 

 iin: live months was elected for a full term, having 

 the support of both parties. Subsequently, on the 

 reorganization of the State courts, he w as atrain elected 

 for a full term, in the two last years of which he was 

 chief justice. In Isr.'.l he was ap|>ointed judge of the 

 United States District Court for the Northern Dis- 

 trict of California, ami he held the office till his death. 

 While a State jud^e he attracted wide attention by 

 overruling a decision denyin-r Chinamen the right to 

 testily in courts, on the ground that such prohibition 

 conflicted with the fourteenth amendment to tho 

 Federal Constitution. 



