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the Pacific coast till his retirement, and com- 

 manded the naval rendezvous at San Francisco 

 in 1871-72, and the navy yard at Mare island 

 in 1872-73. 



Saunders, Alvin, Senator, born in Fleming 

 County, Kentucky, July 12, 1817; died in Omaha, 

 Neb., Nov. 1, 1899. He removed with his parents 

 at twelve years of age to the vicinity of Spring- 

 field, 111. When he was sixteen years old he ob- 

 tained employment on a farm at Mount Pleasant 

 (now in Iowa). Soon he became storekeeper's 

 clerk, then part proprietor, and later postmaster 

 for seven years. At the same time he studied law, 

 but continued in business and became a banker. 

 In 1846 he was a member of the convention that 

 framed the Constitution under which Iowa was 

 admitted as a State. Then he served as State 

 Senator eight years. He was a member of the 

 Republican National Convention of 1860, and 

 took an active part in the campaign for Lincoln. 

 He was also a commissioner to organize the Pa- 

 cific Railroad Company. In 1861 he was ap- 

 pointed Governor of the Territory of Nebraska, 

 and he held that place until the admission of 

 Nebraska' as a State in 1867. Although the popu- 

 lation of Nebraska was only 30,000 for this peri- 

 od, Gov. Saunders not only raised 3,000 men for 

 the National army, but was also able success- 

 fully to repel the attacks of hostile Indians. In 

 the winter of 1876-77 he was elected to the 

 United States Senate, and in that body he was 

 active in securing the resumption of specie pay- 

 ments. He obtained more than 600,000 acres for 

 Nebraska by the straightening of the northern 

 boundary, adjoining Dakota. Another of his acts 

 in the Senate was that of securing a labor school 

 for Indians on the Pawnee reservation. He was 

 one of the commissioners to visit the Indian 

 tribes and report on the advisability of turning 

 the management of the Indians over to the War 

 Department. As chairman, he presented the ma- 

 jority report, adverse to such a measure. He also 

 recommended the teaching of Indians to work 

 and to become independent. His service in the 

 Senate ended in 1883. 



Savage, Philip Henry, author, born in North 

 Brookfield, Mass., Feb. 11, 1868; died in Boston, 

 June 4, 1899. He was a son of the Rev. Minot 

 J. Savage, and was graduated at Harvard in 1893. 

 From 1896 until his death he was a member of 

 the Boston Public Library staff, and in the spring 

 of 1899 he was appointed clerk of the corporation 

 of the library. His two volumes of verse First 

 Poems and Fragments (Boston, 1895) and Poems 

 (1898) displayed a marked degree of promise in 

 thought and expression as well as skill in tech- 

 nique. 



Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson, clergyman, born 

 in Reading, Vt., Jan. 9, 1804; died in Somerville, 

 Mass., July 23, 1899. He was graduated at Mid- 

 dlebury College in 1829, and entered the Uni- 

 versalist ministry the next year, and was pastor 

 of a church in New York city 1830-' 45, and again 

 in 1852-'61. From 1845 to 1852 he was president 

 of the Clinton Liberal Institute, at Clinton, N. Y., 

 and in 1847 was instrumental in founding Tufts 

 College, at Medford, Mass. In 1869 he became 

 Professor of Theology at Tufts College Divinity 

 School, then newly opened, holding office until 

 1892, when he w r as made professor emeritus. He 

 was a profound scholar, an eloquent and graceful 

 speaker, and as a controversialist had few rivals. 

 He was one of the greatest men his denomination 

 has produced, and his influence in liberalizing the 

 tone of religious thought in the earlier part of 

 his ministry was of wide extent. Endless Punish- 

 ment in the Very Words of its Advocates (1880) 



is almost his only published book, but for fortv 

 years he contributed regularly 1o the Univentalist 

 Quarterly controversial and' other articles, and 

 he was successively editor of the Christian Mes- 

 senger and the Christian Ambassador, for both of 

 which he wrote notable articles. 



Schriver, Edmund, military oflirer, born in 

 York, Pa., Sept. 16, 1812; died in Washington, I). C., 

 Feb. 10, 1899. He was graduated at West Point, 

 July 1, 1833, and entered the army as a brevet sec- 

 ond lieutenant in the 2d Artillery; was promoted 

 second lieutenant, July 31, 1834; first lieutenant, 

 Nov. 1, 1836; brevet captain and assistant ad- 

 jutant general, July 7, 1838; captain in Ihe 2d 

 Artillery, Aug. 17, 1842; lieutenant colonel of the 

 llth Infantry, May 14, 1861; and colonel and in- 

 spector general, March 13, 1863; and was retired 

 Jan. 4, 1881. In the volunteer army he served as 

 colonel and additional aid-de-camp from May 

 18, 1862, till March 13, 1863. He was brevetted 

 brigadier general, United States army, for meri- 

 torious services in the field, on Aug. 1, 1864, and 

 major general, United States army, for distin- 

 guished service during the war, on March 13, 1865. 

 After graduation, Gen. Schriver served several 

 years with the artillery in New York, Alabama, 

 and Tennessee; then spent four years in the 

 Adjutant General's office in Washington; and 

 afterward in tjie Seminole Indian war, in Florida, 

 till July 31, 1846, when he resigned. From 1847 

 till 1861 he was engaged in railroad business in 

 New York State, during the last ten years being 

 president, of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Rail- 

 road. At the outbreak of the civil war he was 

 among the first to offer his services to the Gov- 

 ernment, and re-entered the army on May 14, 

 1861. He served for some time as aid-de-camp to 

 Gov. Morgan, of New York, and then was made 

 chief of staff of the 1st Corps in the Army of the 

 Potomac. After taking part in the Shenandoah 

 and the northern Virginia campaigns, he was 

 appointed inspector general of the army. He was 

 engaged in the battles of Chancellorsville and 

 Gettysburg, and in the campaign from the Rapi- 

 dan to Petersburg, and thence till the close of the 

 war he was on duty in the office of the Secretary 

 of War. After peace he was on general inspection 

 duty, principally in the W T est, and on special serv- 

 ice till his retirement. 



Seaver, Joel J., journalist and soldier, born 

 in Salisbury, Vt., Dec. 17, 1822; died in Malone, 

 N. Y., Nov. 29, 1899. He removed to Malone, 

 where he taught school and studied law four 

 years. In 1850 he joined the staff of the Malone 

 Palladium. With his brother, J. K. Seaver, he 

 purchased the Palladium later, and became its 

 editor. When President Lincoln issued his first 

 call for troops, in 1861. he was the first man in 

 Franklin County to offer his services. He was 

 subsequently chosen captain of Company I, 16th 

 Regiment, New York Volunteers, and after serv- 

 ing as major and lieutenant colonel he became 

 colonel, and within two years was in command of 

 a brigade. He participated in sixteen engage- 

 ments, among them Gaines's Mill, the two Fred- 

 ericksburg fights, and Antietam. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Constitutional Convention of 1867. 



Sedley, Henry, author, born in Boston, Mass., 

 April 4, 1835; died in New York city, Jan. 18, 

 1899. He was a son of William Henry Sedley, the 

 actor, who became widely popular as Rolando in 

 The Honeymoon. He was educated in Boston, 

 studied civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytech- 

 nic Institute, in Troy, and engaged in his profes- 

 sion in San Francisco, where he surveyed and 

 mapped many of the principal streets. After com- 

 pleting this work he made a tour of the world, 



