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NAME SATTERLEE 1020 SAY Satterlee, was born December 6, 1798, at Fair- field, Herkimer County, New York. After graduating in medicine Satterlee began to prac- tise in Seneca County, New York, but soon went West and settled at Detroit. In 1822 he was' appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army. He served during the Seminole war in Florida and rendered notable service during the Mexican one, being present in the battles of Cerro Gordo, Cherubusco, Molino del Rey and Chapultepec. In 1853 he was ap- pointed medical purveyor, an office he held until the close of the Civil War. In 1866 he was made brevet brigadier-general as a re- ward for faithful and meritorious services. Under President Johnson he retired from ac- tive service, and his death took place in New York, November 10, 1880. He married in June, 1827, Mary S. Hunt, of Detroit, Michigan. Albert Allemann. Phys. & Surgs. of U. S., W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Biogr. Emin. Amer. Phys. and Surg., R. f. Stone, Indianapolis, 1898. Portrait in Sur.-gen's. Collection, Wash., D. C. Saxe, Arthur Wellesley (1820-1891) Arthur Wellesley Saxe, physician, botanist and artist, was born at Plattsburg, New York, October 20, 1820. He had only a common school education, but studied painting with a good artist, and as a medical student, painted pictures, chiefly portraits, to pay his way through the Vermont Academy of Medicine at Castleton, where he took his M. D. In May, 1850, he went to California and was in the mines until 1852; in 1854 he is heard of as a resident doctor in Santa Clara County, California, and this place remained his home until his death at Pasa Robles, in May, 1891. He was president of the State Medical So- ciety and of the State Horticultural Society and owned a large collection of roses and rare bulbs ; he took botanical excursions through California and the Sandwich Islands. He did work as a doctor, was a skilful surgeon and was reputed to be clever in the use of obstetric forceps and difficult cases of catheter- ization, two important accomplishments in his day. His report on leprosy — the result of study in the Sandwich Islands — was read be- fore the State Medical Society in 1880. He made his most e.xtensive study of flowers and plants of California in conjunction with Kellogg. Two plants were named after him, Rumex Saxci and Clarhca Saxcana, or Green Petunia; after his death a tree in the park at Santa Clara was called the "Saxe Tree" in his memory. During his stay in the Sandwich Islands, Saxe became a warm friend of King Kalakaua, and was his guest at court; he painted a pic- ture of the burning crater of Mauna Loa, doing most of the work at midnight, at which time the flaming crater presented the best appearance. Much of his work was destroyed in the San Francisco fire, but his brother. Dr. Frederick Saxe of Oakland, California, has a small book of water-color sketches of flowers and plants made at odd moments. Howard A. Kelly. Some Amer. Medical Botanists, Howard A. Kelly, Troy, N. Y., 1914. Say, Benjamin (1756-1813) Benjamin Say, physician and humanitarian, was the son of Thomas Say (1709-1796), noted member of the Society of Friends, and was the father of Thomas Say (1787-1834), the distinguished naturalist. Thomas Say, the elder, was born in Philadelphia, son of Wil- liam Saj', early colonist. While a young man Thomas was the subject of a trance in which he visited heaven ; this experience is related in "Short Compilation of the Extraordinary Life and Writings of Thomas Say," by his son, B. Say, Philadelphia, 1796. He was known for his benevolence and for his zeal in the cause of education. Benjamin Say was born in Philadelphia, in 1796, was educated at Friends' schools, and then entered the University of Penn- sylvania, graduating M. D. in 1780. He was an apothecary, like his father, as well as a physician. A sympathizer with the colonists during the American Revolution, he was classed with the "fighting Quakers," organizers of the Society of Friends. "The Monthly meeting of Friends, called by some Free Quakers, distinguishing us from the brethren who have disowned us." He was a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and was one of the twenty- eight signers of the original constitution of the College, January 2, 1787, and was treas- urer from 1791 to 1809. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Humane Society. From 1808 to 1811 he was a member of the United States Congress. Dr. Say was author of "Spasmodic Affec- tion of the Eye" (1792). He was twice married. He died in Philadelphia, April 23, 1813. Howard A. Kelly. Institti. of the Coll. of Phvs. of Philadelphia, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, Phila., 1887. Dictionary of Authors, S. A. AUibone, Phila., 1891. Memoir of Thomas Say, G. Ord (in Le Conte's Writings of T. Say. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887.