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He was selectman in Littleton six years ; a member of the school board, at intervals, upwards of thirty years ; a member of the House of Representatives, 1877, serving on the committee on public charitable institu- tions ; a member of the state Senate in 1884 and'85, serving on the committee on towns, engrossed bills, printing, agriculture, Hoo- sac Tunnel, and Troy & Greenfield R. R. He has been chairman of the board of trustees of the public library, from its open- ing in 1886. He is a director in the Ayer National Bank, and a trustee of the North Middlesex Savings Bank.
SANFORD, ALPHEUS, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) Sanford, was born in North Attleborough, Bristol county, July 5, 1856.
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He attended the primary school at North Attleborough until his removal to Melrose, where he attended the grammar and high
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schools. He then moved to Boston, where he attended the Boston Latin school. He entered Bowdoin College in 1872, and was graduated therefrom in 1876. He was president of the class, a member of the Kappa chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity, and captain of the college base-ball nine.
He first began the study of law in the office of the late Joseph Nickerson ; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in October, 1879, and has continued the practice of law in Boston, where he has since resided.
Mr. Sanford was married in Acushnet, September 20, 1883, to Mary C. V., daugh- ter of William H. and Charlotte E. (Read) Gardiner. Of this union is one child : Gardiner Sanford, born in Boston, October 27, 1888.
Mr. Sanford has been a member of the Republican ward and city committee of Boston for the past five years ; two years chairman of the ward 17 Republican com- mittee, and for the last two years, secre- tary of the Boston Republican city com- mittee. He was a member of the Boston common council in 1886.
He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1888, serving as House chairman of the committee on election laws. He reported the reform ballot bill known as the " Australian Ballot Act."
SANFORD, BAALIS, son of Baalis and Abby (Burt) Sanford, was born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth county, October 4, 1833.
The common schools of his native town furnished his early educational training, this being supplemented by an attendance upon the Bridgewater and East Bridge- water academies.
April 1, 1851, he began work as a book- keeper for Robinson & Barry in what was then known as North Bridgewater. Feb- ruary 1, 1858, he was admitted as a mem- ber of the firm of H. W. Robinson & Co., of Brockton, of which house he has ever since been a member, and is now financial manager.
Mr. Sanford was married in North Bridge- water (now Brockton), August 19, 1856, to Lucy Cotton, daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Whitman) Hapgood. Of this union were three children : Irene G., Anna Cora (who died in 1860), and Mabel Louise San- ford (who died in 1869).
Mr. Sanford was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature in 1878; secre- tary of the town school board from 1875 to '85, inclusive. He was elected city auditor of Brockton in 1882, being the first auditor under the city charter, which posi-
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tion he now holds. He has been justice of the peace since 1881. He was master of Paul Revere Lodge, F. & A. M., from 1867 to '69 ; high priest of Satucket R. A .. Chapter from 1869 to '72 ; eminent com- mander of Bay State Commandery, K. T., from 1875 to '78 ; a life member of the Massachusetts Consistory (32d degree) since March 27, 1870 ; was elected senior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, F. & A. M., December 8, 1886, and grand scribe in the Grand R. A. Chapter of Massachusetts in 1876.
He was president of the Security Co- operative Loan Fund Association in 1878 and '79, and was elected treasurer of the Brockton Gas Light Company in 1886.
He is a director in the Masonic Mutual Relief Association of Springfield, having held the office since 1885; dictator of Brockton Lodge No. 218, Knights of Honor, in 1873 ; commander in Excelsior Council No. 16, A. L. of H., in May, 1879, and a permanent member of the Grand Council, A. L. of H. He is recorder of the Bay State Commandery, K. T. (having held the office ten years), and has been treasurer and secretary of the Commercial Club five years.
SANFORD, FREDERICK COLEMAN, son of Giles and Margarett Sanford, was born in Nantucket, Nantucket county, February 3, 1809.
He attended the various schools on the island until fourteen years old. He then made a voyage to the Pacific Ocean, visit- ing many places of intense interest at that time, including many of the islands dis- covered by Captain Cook.
He returned home and decided to learn the watchmaker's trade. In 1828 he began business for himself in Nantucket, and continued in the same for ten years. In the meantime he went into shipping, whal- ing, etc .; he was successful, and selling his last ship, retired from active business in 1856.
Previous to this, in 1849, he went into some California enterprises, fitting four ships for San Francisco that year, and in 1850 went out to San Francisco to meet one of his vessels. He remained two years, receiving ships and cargoes from his east- ern friends. After a successful season he returned home, but shortly again went back, remaining until September, 1854, when, after realizing handsomely on his investments, he returned to Nantucket.
Mr. Sanford was married in Nantucket, October 7, 1831, to Mary Coleman, daugh- ter of William C. Allen. Of this union
were seven children, all deceased, except Amelia Coffin Sanford, who married Thomas A. Scott of Boston.
Mr. Sanford was an intense Jackson Democrat. When the war broke out he was found among those who sustained the government, and finally became an ardent Republican, and has since remained in affiliation with that party. He was among the first to show perfect confidence in United States securities, and was ready to exchange his entire property for bonds, if necessary, to carry on the war.
He went to England in 1855, to receive the " Great Republic," the largest mer- chant ship at that time afloat. He char- tered her to the French government, and was in that employ fourteen months. Mr. Sanford remembers his sojourn in Califor- nia as the pleasantest part of his life. While in New Zealand, in 1839, he saw the need of an American consul there - sev- enty American ships in port and no gov- ernment representatives- and called the attention of the state department to the fact. Mr. Forsythe, secretary of state, courteously responded, and appointed a gentleman recommended by Mr. Sanford, James R. Clendon, residing there, and doing a large business.
He has been a man of remarkable en- ergy and push, has preserved his integrity and dignity, both at home and with foreign commercial agents, with whom he has an extensive acquaintance.
He is chairman of the Humane Society, a position held for twenty-five years, and has been president of the Pacific National Bank of Nantucket for twenty-two years.
SANGER, CHESTER F., eldest son of Warren and Lucy J. (Allen) Sanger, was born in Somerville, Middlesex county, De- cember 22, 1858, and is a direct descendant of Richard Sanger who came over from England in 1636, and settled in Hingham.
He received his first education in the primary school of Cambridge, whither he was sent by special arrangement, and his father soon after removing to that city, he passed through every grade of the Cam- bridge public schools and entered Harvard in 1876, graduating in 1880.
Almost immediately after graduation he entered the law office of Morse & Allen in Boston, where he studied for three years. Ile was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1883, and since that time has been engaged in the active practice of his profession.
On the 25th of June, 1884, Mr. Sanger was married, in Cambridge, to Gertrude F., only daughter of Horace P. and Lydia 1 ...
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(Flint) Blackman. Their son, Paul Allen Sanger, was born July 15, 1885.
Mr. Sanger is a Republican in politics, and for the last ten years has taken an ac- tive interest in public affairs in the city of Cambridge. For five years he has been treasurer of the Republican city committee, and in 1887 was a member of the common council from ward 5. In 1888 he was a member of the House of Representatives from the Ist Middlesex district, and was returned in 1889, making for himself an excellent record. In October, 1889, he was appointed justice of the 3d eastern Middle- sex district court.
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He is a man of originality and ability, with positive convictions. In the positions of responsibility in which he has been placed thus early in his career, he has con- ducted himself to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents, and gives promise of enlarged popularity and prominence in the future.
SANGER, GEORGE PARTRIDGE, son of Ralph and Charlotte (Kingman) Sanger, was born in Dover, Norfolk county, No- vember 27, 1819.
He is a lineal descendant of Richard Sanger, of Hingham, in Norfolk, England, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1636. The American ancestors of Mr. Sanger
have been distinguished for sturdy patriot- ism, refined scholarship and exemplary piety. His father and grandfather (Zede- kiah Sanger, D. D.), were clergymen of profound scholarship.
George P. Sanger was fitted for college under the instruction of his father, and at the academy in Bridgewater, where he spent the summer and fall of 1833 and '34. He taught school in Dover in the winter of 1834, and in Sharon, in that of 1835; entered Harvard College in 1836; was graduated in the class of 1840, and taught a private school in Portsmouth, N. H., from November, 1840, to July, 18.42.
He was appointed proctor in Harvard College in August, 1842, and entered the Dane law school the same year. In the spring of 1843 he was appointed tutor in Latin, holding the position until 1846, keeping up his connection with the law school during the four years. He re- ceived in course the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. from the college, and was for sev- eral years a member of the committee for examination of the undergraduates in Latin.
He was admitted to the bar in Boston in the spring of 1846, and the same year became a law partner with Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, a companion in the law school. This relation continued until Mr. Phillips removed his law office to Salem. He was then for a short time partner with a college classmate, Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth. In 1849 he became assistant to the Hon. George Lunt, attorney of the United States for the district of Massa- chusetts during the Taylor-Fillmore ad- ministration. He subsequently resumed general practice, chiefly in the admiralty. In January, 1853, he was appointed by Governor Clifford on his military staff, and in October was made district attorney for the Suffolk district.
In September, 1846, he married Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of William Whipple Thompson, of Portsmouth, N. H., and took up his residence in Charlestown, where he resided until 1853, when he removed to Boston. Of this union were five sons : John White, William Thompson, George Partridge, Charles Robert Sanger -all graduates of Harvard - and Henry Clif- ford Sanger (deceased in infancy).
In Charlestown he was two years a member of the school board and two years member of the board of aldermen ; was first captain of the Charlestown City Guards, then one of the most noted military
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organizations of the Commonwealth. In 1853-'54 he commanded the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massa- chusetts. He was district attorney for Suffolk from October, 1853, until the sum- mer of 1854, when he was appointed by Governor Emory Washburn, a judge of the court of common pleas, holding until the abolition of that court, in 1869, when he resumed practice in Boston.
He was a member of the Boston com- mon council in 1870. In 1861 he was again appointed district attorney for Suf- folk district, and elected in the autumn of that year for the remainder of that term of three years ; was re-elected in 1863 for three years, and again in 1866, but declined to serve another term.
In 1867 he removed to Cambridge, where he still resides. He was for several years president of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston ; mem- ber of the House of Representatives in 1873 ; was appointed United States attor- ney for the district of Massachusetts by President Grant in 1873 ; was re-appointed in 1877 by President Hayes, and again in 1882 by President Arthur.
He has spent much time during his pro- fessional years in literary labors ; was editor of the "American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge," from 1848 to '60 ; was twice editor of the " Law Reporter ; " edited the " Statutes at Large of the United States," from 1855 to '73, vols. ii. to xvii. inclusive.
In 1860 Judge William A. Richardson and Mr. Sanger were appointed by the Massachusetts Legislature to prepare and publish the "General Statutes" of 1860 ; and again to prepare and publish an annual "Supplement to the General Statutes." This work they performed continuously for twenty-one years, until the General Statutes were superseded by the "Public Statutes " in 1881.
SARGENT, HORACE M., son of David P. and Mary W. (Bartlett) Sargent, was born in Haverhill, Essex county, October 19, 1861. Ilis mother was the daughter of Ezekiel G. Bartlett, of Hill, N. H., who for many years was a prominent man in his section of the state.
His early education was received in the schools of Bristol and Franklin, N. H., where his parents temporarily resided. When thirteen years of age he was appren- ticed as a " printer's devil " in the " Essex Banner " office, Haverhill, and subse- quently worked in various offices as jour- neyman printer until 1884. He then
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studied law in the offices of N. C. Bart- lett and Moody & Bartlett, Haverhill, and at the Boston University law school. He was admitted to the bar, June 30, 1886, and is now in legal practice in Haverhill.
Mr. Sargent was married in Haverhill, June 23, 1886, to Ida Currier.
Mr. Sargent is an active member of the Centre Congregational church, in which he has held various church and parish offices. He has been a member of the common council for the past two years, serving on important committees, including that on rebuilding city hall. He has been a mem- ber and secretary of the Republican city committee for the past four years, and is a prominent young Republican of Haver- hill. He is interested in various fraternal organizations, in which he has been called to official service.
SARGENT, JOSEPH LEONARD, son of Joseph R. and Hannah E. Sargent, was born in Boston, September 27, 1829.
He received his early education in the Eliot school, Boston, which was supple- mented by academic training in Methuen.
His first connection in business was with Smith Barker, manufacturer of cork goods in Boston. He went to Lowell in 1845, and was for a time with S. T. and William H. Hardy, provision dealers. Later he entered the employ of the Massachusetts Cotton Mills, Lowell, and remained until the closing of the mills in 1862 - the last ten years having charge of the weaving in mills Nos. 1 and 2.
In June, 1863, he opened a provision store in Lowell, remaining in this business until 1875, when he accepted a position tendered by the manufacturing corpora- tions of that city, as inspector. The better to serve them in this capacity, he was appointed deputy sheriff. In 1880 he ac- cepted a call from the textile and other manufacturers of Massachusetts, to rep- resent them before the committees of the Legislature in all matters in which they had an interest, and up to date he has been so employed, at the same time holding the office of inspector for the Lowell cor- porations.
Mr. Sargent was for years a member of the board of aldermen of Lowell, two years a member of the common council, two years a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and has been generally active in municipal and political matters. He was alternate at the national Republican conventions, Chicago, in 1886 and '84, and delegate in '88. He is chairman of the
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county committee, and has long been a justice of the peace.
For many years Mr. Sargent was presi- dent of the Middlesex North Agricultural Society, and is vice-president of the Mid- dlesex Club.
Mr. Sargent was married in Franklin, N. H., April, 1850, to Frances, daughter of Rev. Benj. Hazelton, of Northfield, N. H., who died in 1860. In 1865 he mar- ried H. Augusta, daughter of Henry P. and Hannah G. Clough, of Lowell. He has two children : Alexis D. and Francis J. Sargent.
His church connections are with the Congregational church. He is a member of the Eliot School Association, Boston, and is associated with the Knights of Pyth- ias and I. O. O. F.
SAUNDERS, AMOS J., the only son of Joseph and Mary (Mighill) Saunders. was born in Rowley, Essex county, August 3, 1826.
He received his primary education in the common schools of his native town. At the age of twelve he entered Dummer Academy, Newbury, then under charge of Nehemiah Cleveland. He remained here a year or more. In 1850 he entered Pierce Academy, Middleborough, where he re- ceived the greater part of his preparation for college. He entered Brown Univer- sity in 1852. Soon after his graduation from Brown, he was engaged as a teacher in the grammar school at Danvers. In August, 1856, he was elected principal of the Merrimac Academy. He followed this profession until 1867, when he resigned his charge to engage in mercantile pursuits. He bought out a store in Pepperell, and the next year opened a branch store in East Pepperell, where he soon after re- moved with his family.
Mr. Saunders has filled nearly all the offices in the gift of his town. In 1873 and '76 he represented his district in the popular branch of the General Court. In 1876 he was elected to the Senate to rep- resent the 5th Middlesex district, and was re-elected the succeeding year, serving on the following joint standing committees : liquor law, woman suffrage, claims, taxation, and education. In 1878 he was appointed chairman of the committee on education.
In 1874 he was appointed a justice of the peace, which position he still holds.
In November, 1856, he married Lucy P., daughter of John and Mary Savage. Of this union are four children : Lucy Blanch- ard, Joseph Amos, May H., and Stella F. Saunders.
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SAVAGE, EDWARD BAXTER, son of Samuel K. and Chloe (Stone) Savage, was born in Hubbardston, Worcester county, August 6, 1846.
He received his early educational train- ing in the common schools of his native town, supplemented by a course at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham.
Choosing the profession of law, he pur- sued his legal studies in the office of Bacon
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& Aldrich, Worcester, and was admitted to the Worcester county bar in 1872. Prior to his admission to the bar he was engaged in teaching in the common schools of Hubbardston and vicinity, acceptably serving his native town as chairman of the school committee for several years.
He was subsequently connected with the management of the state reform school. In 1883 he came to Haverhill, where he has since remained in honorable and suc- cessful practice.
November 1, 1875, at Somerville, Mr. Savage was married to Louisa J., daughter of Oraman and Louisa (Latimer) Hunton. Of this union were four children : Edward H., George A., William A., and Harry L. Savage (who died in 1886).
When Mr. Savage was but a boy, his patriotic spirit asserted itself, and he ran away from home to join the army. Finally
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gaining the consent of his parents, he enlisted in the 42d Massachusetts regiment, and served with honor and distinction throughout the war.
Mr. Savage for years has been identified with the G. A. R., and is past commander of Major Howe Post, No. 47. In 1888 he was appointed by Governor Ames a mem- ber of the commission to establish the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, which office he still holds. He is a staunch Republican, and has ever been actively identified with local and state politics.
He was elected to the Haverhill com- mon council in 1888, and honored with a " day. He is one of the shining pulpit
re-election to the same body in 1889, and was called by his fellow-members to pre- side over their deliberations.
SAVAGE, MINOT J , son of Joseph L. and Ann S. Savage, was born in Norridge- wock, Somerset county, Maine, June 10, 1841.
His father was an industrious farmer, and during his boyhood Mr. Savage stud- ied as he was afforded opportunity, with the idea of ultimately entering college. Ill health prevented, however, but in spite of discouraging circumstances, the early am- bition to enter the ministry constantly in- creased. He had always been a student from the time when he was first able to read. He was brought up in the Orthodox faith, and in 1861 entered the Bangor Theolog- ical Seminary. He was graduated in 1864, and took a commission from the American Home Missionary Society of New York to engage in missionary work, which was his most earnest ambition. He sailed from New York in September, 1864, for California, via Panama, three days after his marriage.
He was assigned to San Mateo, twenty miles south of San Francisco, on the shores of the bay, where he began preaching in the local schoolhouse. He remained here for a year and a half, and then for a year and a half preached in Grass Valley, among the foothills of the Sierras. On his return from California, he preached for a few Sundays in Dr. Webb's church and in the Park Street church in Boston, and subse- quently accepted a call from the Congre- gational church in Framingham. The western fever still possessed him, however, and after two years he accepted a call from Hannibal, Mo. Here he remained for three and a half years, experiencing a decided change in his theological views, becoming convinced that he must leave the Orthodox faith for a freer field. At the end of his Hannibal pastorate he re-
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ceived flattering calls from Congregational churches in Indianapolis and Springfield, Ill., and from the Third Unitarian church in Chicago. His change of opinions led him to accept the call from Chicago. Thus the first time that he ever stood in a Unitarian pul- pit was when he stood in his own. In 1874 Mr. Savage came to Boston to attend the May anniversary meetings, spoke in Music Hall and preached in the Church of the Unity, from which he soon afterwards re- ceived a very complimentary call. Here he has remained ever since, and here he has built up a reputation as one of the most prominent theological teachers of the
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lights, not only of Boston but of the coun- try. He is known to thousands who have never seen his face nor heard his voice. His published sermons have a very wide circu- lation, reaching India, South Africa, Aus- tralia and Japan ; and in other literary en- deavors he wields great influence. As an author, his name figures conspicuously in the religious and critical literature not only of our own country, he being an able and faithful contributor to newspapers and magazines, but several of his books have also been republished in London
His congregation is eminently an intelli- gent one ; and though a radical of the
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radicals, his chief work is in the line of re- construction : so he has come to enjoy the esteem and good will of his ministerial co- temporaries, as well as the deep respect and loyal attachment of his parishioners.
On the 29th of August, 1864, Mr. Savage was married in Harvard to Ella A., daugh- ter of John and Ann S. Dodge. Their children are: Gertrude, Philip H., Helen L. . and Max S. Savage.
SAVILLE, LEONARD AUGUSTUS, son of David and Ann W. Saville, was born in Gloucester (Annisquam), Essex county, January 31, 1833. His grandfather on the mother's side was Ezra Leonard, for many years minister at Annisquam. His paternal ancestors were shipmasters.
He was educated in the common and high schools of Gloucester and Charles- town.
At the age of sixteen he went to California (1849) around Cape Horn in the sailing vessel "Harriet Rockwell," working his passage. He arrived there early in 1850, went to the mines that summer, and after- wards was in trade, running a store in the mining regions in 1853.
He left San Francisco in January, 1854, in the ship " Northern Light," bound for Boston, arriving there in April. He worked as draughtsman in an architect's office for several years, but in 1861 went into the grocery business in Lexington under the firm name of Bennett & Saville. His part- ner died in 1864. He continued the busi- ness until 1868, when he was called to Cali- fornia by the death of his father. Return- ing by the way of the Isthmus, as he went, in 1869 he took his family and again went to California by the Union Pacific Railroad soon after it was opened for travel. He opened a commission business in San Fran- cisco, where he remained until 1871, when he returned once more to Lexington, and bought out his old business.
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