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marching through the streets of Baltimore on their way to Washington, received the first fire of the war from the mob in that city, and posted first guard at the capitol, relieving the police. He was after- wards captain in the Twenty-second Regiment, and served with distinction throughout the entire war. After returning home he engaged with Otis Went- worth, the well-known builder, and was his foreman for ten years until 1875, when, in company with E. W. Clark, he formed the present building-firm of Sampson, Clark, & Co. They have taken and suc- cessfully completed some of the heaviest contracts known, contracting for every branch of the work of construction and finishing. The new Court House is their latest large success; and among other notable buildings constructed by them are the State Building in Rutland, Vt., the County Building in Keene, N.H., the O'Brien Grammar School and the Hyde High School in the Roxbury district, the Continental Sugar Refinery, the People's Church, the largest and finest horse-railroad stables in the country at South Boston, the Plymouth Woollen Mills, and many blocks of stores in Boston. They have also built large numbers of dwellings, includ- ing many in the Back Bay district. Captain Samp- son is a member of Charles Russell Lowell Post, No. 7, G.A.R., the Master Builders' Association, and the Mechanics Exchange. He was married in Boston in 1858, and resides in South Boston.
SANBORN, HENRY W., son of Noah W. and Eliza- beth (Farwell) Sinborn, was born in Brighton March 16, 1853. He was educated in the Brighton public schools, and studied civil engineering. He began work as a civil engineer in 1871, with Fuller & Whitney, of Boston. Two years later he was em- ployed in the Boston city engineer's office. In 1874-5 he was of the firm of Smilie & Sanborn, in Newton. In 1876 he was employed upon the im- proved sewerage system of Boston, and in 1881 as assistant engineer in the building of Basin No. 4 of the Boston water works. Then, in 1883, he went to Philadelphia, where he had charge of hydro- graphic work on surveys for a new supply of water for that city. Four years after he returned to Bos- ton, and was appointed assistant engineer of the work on Basin No. 5 of the water works. Then he was made executive engineer of the main drain- age works, and in 1891 was appointed deputy superintendent of the sewer division of the new consolidated street-department of the city. Mr. Sanborn is a member of the Engineers' Club, of Philadelphia, and of the Megantic Fish and Game Club, of Boston. He was married in 1887
to Ella Sanborn ; they have one child : Herbert W. Sanborn.
SANDERS, ORREN BURNHAM, M.D., son of Jonathan C. Sanders, was born in Epsom, N.H., Nov. 18, 1855. He was educated in the Boston Latin School, from which he graduated in 1874, and at Amherst College, where he spent two years. Then he took the course of the Boston University School of Medicine, and graduated M.D. in 1879. He was for three years physician to the out-patients department of the Homeopathic Dispensary, and has since been in private practice. He is now medical examiner. of several benefit insurance- orders, such as the American Legion of Honor, the Golden Rule Alliance, and the Foresters. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Boston Surgical Gynæcological Society, and the Hahnemann Club.
SANDERS, ORREN STRONG, M.D., was born in Epsom, N.H., Sept. 24, 1820. He was educated at Pembroke, and at Gilmanton and Effingham, N.H., Academies. He studied medicine in the Castleton Medical College, Vt., graduating in 1843. He also attended Dartmouth College, from which he received an honorary degree in 1886. He established himself first in Effingham, N.H. A year and a half later, in the autumn of 1849, he came to Boston, where he has since remained. He was associated for a year and a half with Dr. Samuel Gregg, from whom he took his first lessons in homeopathy, and then went into private practice at No. 11 Bowdoin street. Here he lived for twenty-one years when he moved into his present residence at No. 511 Columbus avenue, which he built upon his own lot. Dr. Sanders is one of the three seniors belonging to the homeopathic medical profession in Boston, and the community as well as his school recognize him as one of its most successful members. He is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society (of which he has been president), the Amer- ican Institute of Homeopathy, the Hahnemann Club, and the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society. He has lectured from time to time before the women of the Boston Physiological Society, and has contributed largely to the medical journals. For two years he was a member of the Boston school committee.
SANFORD, ALPHEUS, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born in North Attle- borough, Mass., July 5, 1856. His education was
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begun in the primary school of his native town, continued in the public schools of Melrose and the Boston Latin School, and finished in Bowdoin Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1876. In college he was president of his class, a member of the Kappa chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity, and cap- tain of the college. base-ball nine. He studied law in the office of the late Joseph Nickerson, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1879. He has since practised here. Mr. Sanford was a member of the
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Boston common council in 1886, and of the lower house of the Legislature in 1888 and 1890, serving the first year as house chairman of the committee on election laws, and the second on the committee on the judiciary. He has been a member of the Republican ward and city committee of Boston for several years, and its secretary from 1889 to 1892 ; in . 1891 he was a member of the executive com- mittee of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, and in 1892 secretary of the organization. He was married Sept. 20, 1883, in Acushnet, to Miss Mary C. V. Gardiner ; they have one child, Gar- diner Sanford.
SANGER, CHESTER F., oldest son of Warren and Lucy (Allen) Sanger, and a direct descendant of Richard Sanger who came over from England in 1636 and settled in Hingham, was born in Somerville, Mass., Dec. 22, 1858. He was educated in the
public schools of Cambridge, to which city his father had removed, and at Harvard, graduating therefrom in 1880. Immediately after obtaining his degree he entered the law-offices of Messrs. Morse & Allen, of Boston, as a student, remaining with them until his admission to the Suffolk bar in July, 1883. He has always taken a deep interest in public affairs in Cambridge, and until his appointment to a judicial position was an active worker upon the Republican city committee. In 1887 his ward sent him to the common council, and in 1888 and 1889 he rep- resented the First Middlesex District in the lower house of the Legislature, rendering most efficient service during both years. In October, 1889, he was appointed by Governor Ames justice of the Third "District Court of Eastern Middlesex, with jurisdiction extending over Cambridge, Arlington, and Belmont.
SAVAGE, HENRY W., was born in Alton, N.H., March 21, 1859. He came to Boston in 1866, and fitted for college in the Boston Latin School. He graduated from Harvard in 1880. The same year, in Septem- ber, he entered the real-estate office of Samuel Rice, who had been in business since 1840 on State and Tremont streets, and three years later was admitted as a partner. On the death of Mr. Rice in the same year, he succeeded to the entire business. Since that time the business has quadrupled. His office employs eleven men, and something like six hundred tenants are on its lists. In 1890 a build- ing department was added, which is under the per- sonal supervision of Mr. Savage, and is kept entirely separate from the usual management and commis- sion business of a real-estate office. This bureau - for so it may legitimately be called - has been very successful as a means of development and improve- ment of vacant or unproductive estates. From twenty to fifty buildings yearly are either built or remodelled in such a way as to increase to the best advantage the owner's return. The magni- tude of the commission and rental portion of Mr. Savage's business may be estimated from the fact that during 1890 over eighteen thousand people were registered as applicants to buy or hire at his office. In 1891 Mr. Savage removed his office to the large store No. 37 Court street, which was especially fitted for his business. Mr. Savage was for three years commodore of the Dorchester, now Massachusetts Yacht Club, is a member of the Revere Lodge, St. Andrew's Chapter, and De Molay Commandery Knights Templar, and president of the Real Estate Association. He is married and resides in Boston.
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SAWIN, CHARLES DEXTER, M.D., son of Samuel D. and Caroline E. (Simonds) Sawin, was born in Charlestown June 10, 1857. He was educated in the Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1878. He entered the Harvard Medical School the same year, and during 1881, 1882, and 1883 was connected with the Boston City Hospital. He received his degree in 1883, and the following year was spent in studying in Vienna. Then he returned to Charlestown in 1884, and began practice there. In December, that year, he was appointed physi- cian and surgeon to the Massachusetts State Prison, which position he held until June, 1891, when he resigned. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Harvard Medical School Asso- ciation, and the Boston City Hospital Club. He has been eminently successful, notwithstanding he has suffered the amputation of one arm. Dr. Sawin was married Oct. 14, 1885, to Miss Kathe- rine M., daughter of Thomas Morton Cole. She died July 19, 1887, leaving one child, Katherine Morton Sawin.
SAWYER, CHARLES W., son of Seth Sawyer, is a native of Charlestown. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of twenty became a government employé, entering the Charlestown post-office as clerk under Colonel Charles B. Rogers, then postmaster. Within a year he was promoted to the head clerkship, and this position he held through the term of Colonel Rogers and those of his successor, William H. DeCosta. As the end of Mr. DeCosta's second term of four years approached, the two entered into a friendly rivalry for the chief place. As a result a new man was appointed. Mr. Sawyer was urged to remain in-his old position, but he decided to retire, and with Mr. DeCosta, his former chief, entered the real-estate business under the firm name of DeCosta & Sawyer. After seven years' successful pursuit of this business, Mr. DeCosta retired and the firm was dissolved. This was in 1876, and since that time Mr. Sawyer has conducted the business alone, maintaining the office in which it was started, No. 9 City square. In 1887 he also opened a Boston office in the Globe Building. For seventeen years he has been a resident of Somer- ville. He has served in both branches of the Somerville city council, and was chairman of the first board of health chosen in that city under the State law. He is president of the Charlestown local club known as the " Nine Hundred and Ninety-ninth Artillery," and of the "Trainingfield " School Association. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, past commander of Cœur de Lion Command-
ery Knights Templar, and a charter member of the Orient Council, of Somerville.
SAWYER, TIMOTHY THOMPSON, son of William and Susannah (Thompson) Sawyer, was born in Charles- .town Jan. 7, 1817. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers in Massachusetts. One of them, James Thompson, came to Charlestown with Gov- ernor Winthrop's company in 1630. On the other side, Thomas Sawyer settled in Lancaster in 1641. His early education was chiefly obtained in the public schools. His business life was begun in the hard- ware and ship-chandlery store of his uncle, Thomas M. Thompson, in Merchants row, Boston. When he was twenty years of age his uncle died, and for five years he continued the business alone. In 1842 he formed a partnership with John W. Frothingham, under the firm name of Sawyer & Frothingham, and the same business was continued for two years. About this time the firm of Gage, Hittinger, & Co. was formed, to engage in the wharfage and ice busi- ness, of which Mr. Sawyer was a partner. In 1846 the firm name was changed to Gage, Sawyer, & Co. The house was extensively engaged in the shipment of ice, and had business connections in the princi- pal Southern cities, in several of the West India Islands, in Rio Janeiro and Calcutta, and was widely and honorably known. Mr. Sawyer retired from active business in 1862. For thirty-eight years he has been a director in the Bunker Hill National Bank (its president from 1884 to 1890, when he resigned that office), and a trustee of the Warren Institution for Savings nearly as long. Of the latter he was made president in 18So, which position he still holds. During his active career he has held many local offices of trust and responsi- bility. In 1840 he was a member of the financial committee, and assessor in 1841 of the town gov- ernment of Charlestown. In 1843, 1844, and 1845 he was a member of the school committee. The town became a city in 1847. In 1848, 1853, and 1854 he was a member of the common council under the city government - elected president the last year, but declined to serve. He was mayor of Charlestown in 1855, 1856, and 1857, and chairman of the school committee from 1855 to 1864. In 1857 he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature, and in 1858 State Senator. His first election to the office of mayor was as the citizens candidate in opposition to the candidate of the Know-Nothing party, and this was the first defeat of that party after its organization in the State of Massachusetts. When the Charlestown Public Library was established, in 1860, he was elected
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president of the board of trustees, and continued to hold the office until the city was annexed to Boston, in 1872. He was president of the Mystic water board from 1871 to 1876, and of the Boston water board from 1876 to 1879, and subsequently for another year ; and for the first three years of its existence was a member of the fire commission of Boston. He has been treasurer of the Bunker Hill Monument Association since 1879, and for years one of the trustees of Tufts College. In religious matters Mr. Sawyer has been active and prominent, having been upon the standing com- mittee of the First Universalist Church of Charles- town for nearly half a century, and for ten years chairman.
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SAYWARD, WILLIAM H., son of William and Margaret Ann (Gregson) Sayward, was born in Boston, on Common street, Feb. 20, 1845. He was educated in the Boston public schools. He began business life in the wholesale grocery trade, with Draper & Co., No. 21 South Market street. He is now a builder, and secretary of the Master Builders' - Association, the National Association of Builders, and the 'Boston Executive Business Association. He is also chairman of the board of trustees for New England of the American Employers Liability Insurance Company. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from Ward 20, in 1883. Mr. Sayward was married Aug. 27, 1869, to Miss Caroline A. Barnard ; of their five children three are living : William Henry, jr., Perceval, and Margaret Elise Sayward. The two who have died were Mary Caroline and Everett Sayward.
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SCOTT, CHARLES .WINFIELD, M.D., son of Charles W. and Lucy (Kellum) Scott, was born in Johnson, Vt., Oct. 31, 1849. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and in the University of the City of New York. When a lad of thirteen, he enlisted as a bugler in the First Vermont Heavy Artillery, but was discharged on account of extreme youth. Again enlisting later on, in the Twenty- eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, he went to the front. He was mentioned for gallant services. He was wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor, and received his discharge March 5, 1865. Dr. Scott began the practice of medicine in Johnson in 1870, and a year later came to Boston. Here he remained eight years, and then removed to Hartford, Conn. In 1884 he accepted the position of professor of anatomy in the Kansas City Hospital College of Medicine. In 1890 he returned to Boston, and has since remained here. He is a prominent Mason
(thirty-second degree), past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias, past noble grand of the Odd Fellows, commander of Farragut Post G.A.R., of Kansas City, late medical director of the Depart- ment of Missouri, and a leading member of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. He was a member of the Ninth International Medical Con-
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gress. He has contributed largely to medical jour- nals, notably several papers on the " germ theory " of disease. His brother is Julian Scott, the eminent artist. Dr. Scott has been twice married. His first wife was Anna M., daughter of Dorr Hobart, and his second is a daughter of Mrs. D. A. Pollard, of Hart- ford, Conn. ; he has one son, Charles W. Scott, jr.
SEAVER, EDWIN PLINY, son of Samuel and Julia (Conant) Seaver, was born in_ Northborough, Mass., Feb. 24, 1838. His education was attained in the common schools, which he attended to the age of seventeen, the Bridgewater Normal School (1855-7), Phillips ( Exeter) Academy ( 1860-1), and Har- vard College (class of 1864). He was tutor and assistant professor of mathematics in Harvard from 1865 to 1874, and then became head master of the Boston English High School. This position he held until 18So, when he was made superintendent of the public schools of Boston, his present station. Mr. Seaver's interest in the work of teaching has always been an overmastering one, in so much that
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his endeavors to prepare for and enter the legal profession were in vain. He has been held to teach- ing by something stronger than his own will -a kind of destiny, perhaps. He has been one of the overseers of Harvard College for twelve years ( 1879- 91), is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and has been a member of the American Academy of Science. He has never been in poli- tics. He was married Sept. 10, 1872, to Miss Margaret W. Cushing ; they have had seven children, six of whom are living : Robert, Julia Conant, Oscar Leidd, Margaret Cushing, Henry Cushing, Edwin Pliny, jr., and Samuel Seaver.
SHARPLES, STEPHEN PASCALL, Massachusetts State assayer, was born in West Chester, Pa., April 21, 1842. He received his early education in private schools, and also in Bolinar's Academy and the West Chester Normal School, later attending the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. He finally graduated with honors from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1866. He was instructor in chemistry for one year in the Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pa .; for three years assist- ant in the Lawrence Scientific School ; one year assistant editor of the " Boston Journal of Chem- istry ; " and in 1874 received the appointment of professor of chemistry in the Boston Dental College, which position he still holds. Professor Sharples has accomplished much in the field of scientific literature, having written, as an expert, about one- third of the ninth volume of the tenth census, and a number of articles on the adulteration of food. He is at present engaged, in connection with L. ,A. Morrison, on a " History of the Kimball Family." He has made many trips to some of the important mineral fields in North America ; to Turk's Island in 1881, West Virginia in 1882, to the coast of New- foundland in 1886, and to the Florida and North Carolina phosphate beds. He has also been frequently employed in courts as an expert in matters relating to chemistry. Professor Sharples is a member of many organizations, among them the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, the Society of Natural History of Boston, the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Amer- ican Chemical Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Mining Engineers, and the Society of Industrial Chemistry of London. He is now the assayer and inspector of intoxicating liquors for the State of Massachusetts. Professor Sharples was married on the 16th of June, 1870, to Miss A. M. Hall, of Cambridge. He resides in that city.
SHATTUCK, FREDERICK CHEEVER, was born in Boston Nov. 1, 1847. He was educated in the Boston Latin and other schools, and graduated from Harvard A.B. 1868, A.M. 1872, and M.D. 1873. From 1873 to 1875 he was abroad in Vienna, Ber- lin, Strasburg, Paris, London, and other cities, studying his profession. He returned to Boston in 1875, and in 1880 was connected with the Harvard Medical School as assistant in clinical medicine. He was also at one time instructor in the practice of medicine here, and in 1888 was appointed pro- fessor of clinical medicine. He was physician to out-patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and then, in 1885, was appointed visiting physician to the hospital, which position he now holds. Dr. Shattuck is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 'Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improve- ment, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Climatological Association, and other organizations. He has made various contributions to medical cyclo- pædia's and periodicals, and has published a book on " Auscultation and Percussion." He is a member of the board of managers of the Children's Hospital. He married Elizabeth P., daughter of Henry Lee, of Boston.
SHATTUCK, GEORGE OTIS, son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, was born in Andover, Mass., May 2, 1829. His family is descended from William Shattuck, who was born in England about 1621, and who died in Watertown Aug. 14, 1672. Both his grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolu- tion, and his great-grandfather Bailey was killed at Bunker Hill. He was fitted for college in Phillips (Andover) Academy, and entering Harvard gradu- ated in the class of 1851. He began the study of law in the office of Charles G. Loring, and attended the Harvard Law School two years, graduating with the degree of LL.B. in 1854. Admitted to the bar in January, 1855, he began practice in September following, in connection with J. Randolph Coolidge .. Then, in May, 1856, he Became associated with Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, and this relation continued until February, 1870, when he formed a partnership with William A. Munroe. Later Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., was admitted to the firm, and these relations continued until the appointment of Mr. Holmes to the Massachusetts Supreme bench in 1882. The firm is now Shattuck & Munroe. Mr. Shattuck has been especially successful as a corpo- ration lawyer, and in the handling of commercial cases of magnitude. He was a member of the Boston common council in 1862.5 For many
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years he has been one of the board of overseers of Medical School, which position he has held from its Harvard College, and a member of the Massachu- setts Historical Society. Mr. Shattuck was married
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in :1857 to Miss Emily Copeland, of Roxbury ; they have one daughter, Susan, the wife of Dr. Arthur T. Cabot.
SHAW, JOHN O., JR., was born in Milton, August, :1850. He is a son of John O. Shaw, and grandson of the late Chief Justice Shaw. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1873, and then read law in his -present office (No. 27 State street) with Lemuel Shaw, and in the Boston Law School. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar, and has been in active practice ever since. In politics he is a Republican.
SHAW, JAMES STATT, M.D., son of Thomas Shaw, of Big Rapids, Mich., and brother of Rev. Anna H. Shaw, national lecturer of the Women's Suffrage Association, was born in England March 15, 1837. He came to America at the age of fifteen. His educa- tion was begun in England and finished in Lawrence, Mass. In 1876 he graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine M.D. Previous to that time he had practised dentistry. He estab- lished himself in Boston, and immediately after graduation began the practice of medicine; here LEVI W. SHAW. he has since remained. Dr. Shaw is secretary of a synonym for high grade work and business the Dispensary Association of the Boston University integrity. During this period Captain Shaw was
inception. He has also held different clinics in the dispensary, and has been connected with the West End Dispensary. He is the Boston physician to the Actors' Fund of America, the Lodge of Odd Fel- lows, the Boston Lodge of Elks, and the Man- pitti Tribe of Red Men. He is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston Homoeopathic Medical Societies.
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