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served as governor by annual election, 1708-24. lie refused to be agent of the colonj- conveying the address to Queen Anne urging the comiuest of Canada in 170'J. but aided in raising a large force for the disastrous expedition of Sir Hoven- deu Walker, and in 1713 becunie personally re- sponsible for the credit of the colony, which had become involved througli the expenses incurred in Canada. The Saybrook platform, which re- sulted from liis urging ecclesiastical discipline, was in some iiniK)rtant respects in harmony with the Presbyterian polity. He was instrumental in introducing the printing press into the colony, setting the first one up in his residence in 1709, and was also prominent in locating Yale college at New Uaven, instead of at Hartford. He was married first, to Jerusha, daughter of James and Sarah (Gil)bons) hichards of Hartford, Conn.; secondly, to Elizabetli, daugliter of AVilliam and Catlierine (Russell) Kosewell of Branford, Conn., and thirdly, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Lawrence) Whittingham of Boston, Mass., and widow of William Clarke. He died in New L.n.lon. Conn.. Sept. 20. 1724.

SALTONSTALL, Leverett, representative, was born in Haverhill. Mass., June I'S, 1783; son of Dr. Nathaniel and Anna (White) Saltonstall; grandson of Col. Ricliard and Mary (Cooke) Saltonstall and of Samuel White, and a descen- dant of Sir Richard Saltonstall. He attended Phillips academy at Exeter; was graduated at Harvard, A.B.. 1802, A.M., 1805; studied law under William Prescott at Salem, and practised there, 1805-43. He was married, March 7, 1811, to Mary Elizal>eth, daughter of Thomas Sanders of Salem, Mass. He was a member and speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives; presi- dent of the senate in 1831: first mayor of Salem, 1S36-38. and a presidential elector on the Webster ticket in 1837. He was a Whig representative in the 25th congress as successor to Stephen C. Phillips, resigned, and in the 26th and 27th con- gres.ses, serving, 1838-43. He was an overseer of Harvard. 183.5-45; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; president of the Bible society, the Essex Agricultural society, the Es.sex Bar as.sociation, and a member of the Mass- achusetts Historical society. At his death he left most of his library to Phillips Exeter academy, and a sum of money to purchase books for the Harvard library. He is the author of: Historical Sketch of Ildverhill. He received the honorary <I.'grees: A.B. from Yale in 1802, A.M. from ''.owdoin in 1806 and LL.D. from Harvard in 1S.38. He died in Sal'-m. M;i.ss., May 8, 1845.

SALTUS, Edgar Evertson, author and jour- nalist, was born in New York city, Oct. 8. 1858; son of Francis Henry and Eliza (Evertson) Saltus; grandson of Francis and Mary (Dykers) Saltus

and of Edgar and Adelaide (Dickinson) Evertson, and a descendant of Admiral Cornelius Evertson. who took New York city, Aug. 9. 1673. He was graduated from St. Paul's school. Concord, N.H.; studied at Sorbonne, Paris, and in Heidelberg and Munich, and received liis degree of LL.B. from Columbia college in 1880. He is the author of: Balzac: a Sttuh/ (1884); The Philosophy of Disenchantment (1885); The Anatomy of Nitjation (1887); Mr. IncouVs Misadventure (1887;: The Truth about Tristram Varick (1888): The Pace that Kills (1888); Eden (1888); A Transaction in Hearts (1889); Mary Magdalen (1892); Inqyerial Purple (1893); When Dreams Come True (1805), and many magazine articles.

SAMFORD, William James, governor of Alabama, was born in Greenville, Meriwether county, Ga., S^pt. 16, 1844: son of AVilliam Flewellen and Susan (Dodwell) Samford: grand- son of Tliomas and Jane (Burleson) Samford and of Louis J. an 1 Elizabeth (Farley) Dodwell. The Dow- dells are Virginians of Irish ., descent; and Elizabeth Far- Vi-. ley was the daughter of ■' Arthur and Ann (Tinsley) Farley of Powhatan county, Va. He attended the common schools of Greenville, the East Alabama Male col- lege at Auburn and theUniversity of Georgia, but did not graduate. He enlisted in the 46th Ala- bama regiment. Confederate States army, in 1862; was promoted lieutenant, and served throughout the war. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1807 at Opelika, Ala., where lie con- tinued to reside until his death. He was mar- ried, Oct. 31, 1865, to Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. John H. and Mary (Williams) Drake, natives of North Carolina, but residents of Ala- bama. He was a member of the state constitu- tional convention of Alabama in 1875; was a Democratic presidential elector in 1872 and 1876; a representative in the 46th congress. 1879-81; a representative in the state legislature, 1882; and state senator, 1884-86 and 1892, serving as president of the senate in 1886. He was governor of Alabama, 1900-01. He became a member of the Historical Society of Alabama. Jan. 2. 1899. W^hile in attendance on the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the University of Ala- bama, of whicii board he was the official head, he died in Tuscaloosa. Ala.. June 11, 1901.

SAMPLE, Robert Fleming, clergyman, was born in Corning, N.Y.. Oct. 19, 1829; son of John and Jane (Wilson) Sample: grandson of John and Mary (McCormick) Sample and of William and Ann (.Shannon) Wilson, and a descendant of John Sample, whose family emigrated from Normandy to Edinburgh and Renfrew in the time