Page:One of a thousand.djvu/551

 SAUNDERS. SAVAGE. 537 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 i860. 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 Ins 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. 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 EDWARD B. SAVAGE. & 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