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Volunteer Infantrv forth* Notional army, and accom- 

 panied it I" tin- front its it iiiHJiir. lie WH promoted 

 lii-ulrimnl colonel in August, l*'i-'f, and as fiminiuiKlfr 

 of the regiment look jmrt in Sherman's Mcriilian cam 

 paign aiiil in iiio\ ,-nicni.-. connected uiili tin- Atlanta 

 campaign. After tin- death of (Jen. Mcl'hei>on lu- 

 lu-Id tin- command <>n tin' front, and in the inari-li to 

 the sea had the advaliet- of the 17th Corps, lie ua^ 

 complimented in general orders tor his services; was 

 brcvcttcd eolmiel and brigadier-general, to date IVoni 

 March 13, 18tio; and mi being mustered out of t In- 

 service, in June following, was presented with a hand- 

 sonie testimonial l>\ the otlieers of his regiment. I\c- 

 turniiiLr home, he wa> elided hank comptroller of 

 Wi.-M-on.Mii in isi;:uiid im;;, and DMBlbar Of COOCNM, 

 as a Republican, in L871, 187*, *Bd 1*7.~>. While in 

 Congress he >ervcd as c-hairman of the Committee on 

 Pensions; opposed tin- hack pay hill, and after it had 

 parsed covered his hack pay into the Treasury. In 

 1881 he was elected < iovernor of Wisconsin, and in 

 1884 and 1886 was re-elected. While Governor, ho 

 suppressed an anarchist outbreak by ordering the 

 militia to fire on the crowd the moment violence \\ a> 

 attempted, and in a threatened railroad riot refused to 

 call out troops, declaring that the men on strike 

 needed bread, not bayonets, and foreed a settlement 

 of the claim.-, of the discontented workmen. In 1888 

 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination 

 for President, and after the election of Gen. Harrison 

 Gen. Rusk was appointed secretary of the newly cre- 

 ated Department of Agriculture, and he held the of- 

 fice to tne close of President Harrison's Administra- 

 tion. For a portrait, see ''Annual Cyclopaedia" for 

 1889, page 804. 



Sanford. Edward Isaac, jurist, born in New Haven, 

 Conn., in 1826 ; died there, July 13, 1898. He was 

 graduated at Yale College in 1847, and at its law 

 school a few years afterward; was a State Senator in 

 1864-'65; was appointed a judge of the Superior 

 Court of Connecticut by Gov. English in 1867; and 

 held the office till the legislative dead-lock in 1890-'91, 

 when Gov\<Bulkeley renominated him, but he was 

 not confirmed. 



Saulabury, Hi, lawyer, born in Mispillion Hundred, 

 Kent County, Del.. Dec. 29, 1817 ; died in Dover, 

 Del., March 22, 1893. He was the fourth of live sons 

 of William Saulsbury, a farmer; received a public 

 and private school e'ducation: took a partial course 

 at Dickinson College; studied law with his youngest 

 brother, Willard, afterward Chancellor of the State 

 and United States Senator ; and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1845. He settled in Dover to practice, and soon 

 entered political life. In 1853 and 1854 he was elected 

 to the Legislature ; in 1871 to the United States Senate, 

 to succeed his brother Willard ; and in 1876 and 1883 

 was re-elected Senator. In the Senate he opposed the 

 act to enforce the provisions of the 14th amendment to 

 the Federal Constitution, and the presence of Federal 

 troops at the organization of the Louisiana Legislature. 

 His last service was as chairman of the Committee, 

 on Engrossed Bills, and as member of the Commit- 

 tees on Foreign Relations, on Post-Offices and IV-t 

 Roads, and on Privileges and Elections. The contest 

 in Delaware in 1871 for the United States senatorship 

 was in many respects remarkable. Willard Saiilsl ury 

 was a candidate for re-election, and had the support 

 of Sussex County. His brother Gove, who had just 

 completed his term as Governor, was put in nomina- 

 tion by Kent County. Newcastle County was di- 

 vided, part of the delegates favoring Willard, another 

 part Gove, and a third part hoped for a compromise 

 candidate, and suggested Eli. On the first and sec- 

 ond ballots the vote stood 14 for Gove, 13 for Willard, 

 and 3 for Eli. The latter then consented to stand as 

 compromise candidate against his two brothers, and 

 on tne fourth and last ballot won by a vote of 16 to 

 14 for (Jove. 



Sawyer, Henry W.. civil war veteran, born in Lehigh 

 County, Pa., in l,vJ7 ; died in Cape May, N. J., Oct. 

 16, IS'.i;!. He was a member of the 1st New Jersey 

 Cavalry ; was one of the guards selected to protect the 



national Capitol on the night of April 19, 1MJ1 ; and 



a* taken prisoner l>\ the Confederate* in the buttle 

 I' llrandv Station, June '.'. l-'i::. and sent to I.ibby 

 Pri.-on. \Shile in confinement he and Cupt. Fl\ tin, 

 of the .'d.st Indiana Volunteer.-, were drawn b\ lot in 

 lltcd, hut Ixith wen- saved by the interference 



of a Roman Catholic prieM a.- the men were- riding on 

 their coffins to the place of execution. President 

 Lincoln heard of the ca>e, and notified the Confed- 

 erates that he would cause two Confederate prisoner* 

 to be shot if Fly nn and Sawyer wen- executed. Mr. 

 Sawyer was subsequently exchanged, readied the 

 rank of colonel, and received a medal and the thanks 

 of Congress. For many years he was superintendent 

 of the Life-Saving Service on the New Jersey coawt. 

 Schaff. Philip, clergyman, born in Coire, Canton 

 Graubundten, Switzerland, Jan. 1, 1819; died in New 

 York city, Oct. 20,1893. He was graduated at the 

 University of Berlin in 1841, after taking courses in 

 Coire College, Stuttgart Gymnasium, and the Uni- 

 versities of Tubingen 

 and Halle, and then 

 spent a year in Euro- 

 pean travel as tutor to 

 a Prussian nobleman. 

 In 1842 he returned 

 to the University of 

 Berlin as lecturer on 

 Biblical exegesis and 

 Church history ; in 

 1844 was ordained in 

 Elberfeld, and the 

 same year removed to 

 MerceVsburg, Pa., un- 

 der appointment as 

 professor in the theo- 

 logical seminary of 

 the German Reformed 

 Church of the United 

 States. Within a year he was placed on trial for heresy, 

 because of the liberal opinions expressed in his opening 

 address on " The Principle of Protestantism as related 

 to Romanism and the Present State of the Church," 

 but was acquitted by the Synod of York. Pa., and con- 

 tinued his relations at the seminary till 1863. In 

 1854 he was selected to represent the German Reformed 

 Church of the United States at the ecclesiastical diet 

 in Frankfort, and at the Swiss pastoral conference in 

 Basel ; and while in Europe he lectured on " America" 

 in Berlin and other cities, and received the degree of 

 D.D. from the University of Berlin. His work at 

 Mercersburg terminated in 1863, when the seminary 

 building was turned into a military hospital. Ho 

 then removed to New York city, where, in 1864, he 

 was appointed secretary of the 'Sabbath Committee, 

 and during the live years that he held this office he 

 lectured on Church' history at the theological semi- 

 naries in Andover, Hartford, and New York city. 

 He also revisited Europe twice during this period, in 

 1865 and 1869. In 1870 he was elected Professor of 

 Sacred Literature in Union Theological Seminary, 

 New York city, an office he held actively till the 

 spring of 18'.t3, when he was retired as professor 

 emeritus. He was one of the founders and honorary 

 secretary of the American branch of the Evangelical 

 Alliance, and went to EurojH- in IM;;I. l->7-'. and 

 1873 to arrange for the general conference of the 

 Alliance, which was held in New York city in 

 October, Is7:i. In 1^71 he was one of the delegates 

 of the Alliance to plead with the F.mpcror of Russia 

 for a concession or religious liberty to Russian sub- 

 jects in the Balkan provinces ; in i^~'> a delegate to 

 the meeting in London which organized the Alliance 

 of the Reformed Churches, and two vcars afterward 

 to its first general council, in Edinburgh : in 1880 

 was chairman of the programme committee for the 

 second general council in Philadelphia: and in ! >> 7 1 . | i 

 and lss4 was a delegate to the ireiu-ral conferences of 

 the Evangelical Alliance in Ha>el and Copenhagen 

 respectively. When the English Committee <>n Bible 

 Revision was organized the members sought Dr. 



