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 SAULS BURY

SAUNDERS

SAUL5BURY, Ell, senator, was born in Mis- pillion Hundred. Kent county. Del., Dec. 29, 1817;

son of William .iml (Smith) Saulsbury.

His father \v;is slierill in 1820, and soon after re- moved to Dover, where Eli attended school. He subsequently entered a select school at Denton, Md.. attended Dickinson college regularly, but did not };raduate. and engaged in cultivating his widowe.l niotlier's farm at Mispillion. 1841-56. He was a rei»resentative in the state legislature, ia'>2-,54; went to Dover, Del., in 1856; studied law. and in 1857 was admitted to the bar. He was elected U.S. senator by the Democratic legislature in 1870. as successor to his brother, Willard Saulsbury; was re-elected in 1877 and l^*"^:]. serving till March 4, 1889, and during his entire service in the senate was chairman of the committee on engrossed bills. He voted against the 14th amendment. He contributed largely to the building of the Wilmington conference academy, and was elected president of the board of trustees to succeed his brother. Gove Saulsbury, in 1881, serving till 1893. He died in Dover, Del., March 22. 1898.

SAULSBURY, Gove, governor of Delaware, was born in Mispillion Hundred, Kent county,

Del., March 29. 1815: son of William and

(Smith) Saulsbury. He attended the local schools, Delaware college, and the university of Pennsylvania: practised medicine in Dover: was elected state senator on the Democratic ticket in 1862, and was speaker during the second session. Upon the death of Gov. William Cannon, March 1, lSt;5. he succeeded to the office of governor, and in 1^06 was elected to the office for the term ending 1870. He died at Dover, July 31, 1881.

SAULSBURY, Wlllard, senator, was born in Mispillion Hundred, Kent county, Del., June 2, 1820; son of William and (Smith) Sauls- bury. He attended Dickinson college, Pa.; en- gaged in the practice of law in Georgetown, Del.; was state attorney-general, 1850-55, and was elected U.S. senator on the Democratic ticket in 1858, serving till 1871. He favored the preserva- tion of the Union; served on the reconstruction committee in the 39th congress; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1864, and was made a chancellor of Delaware in 1873. He die.! in Dover, Del.. April 6, 1892.

SAUNDERS, Alvln, senator, was born in Flem- ing county. Ky., July 12. 1817. He removed with his father to Illinois in 1829, and in 1836 settled in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, tlien W^isconsin Territory; was rK)stmaster there for seven years; studied law with Isaac Van Allen, and engaged in the mercantile and banking business. He was a meml)er of the convention that framed the state constitution in 1846; was state senator for eight years; a delegate to the Republican national con-

ventions of 1860 and 1868, and was appointed by congress a member of the board of commissioners to organize the. Pacific railroad company. He was governor of the Territory of Nebraska, 1861- 67, and U.S. senator, 1877-83. He secured for Nebraska a vast tract of land by straightening the boundary line between that state and South Dakota. He died in Omaha. Neb., Nov. 1, 1899.

SAUNDERS, Frederick, librarian, was born in London. Eng., Aug. 14, 1807; .son of the senior member of the firm of Saunders and Ottley, book publishers of London. He received a superior education, and became a clerk in his father's book store. He was sent in 1837 to New York to open a branch of the house, hoping to secure an American copyright on the publications of the firm in demand in the United States; and he also petitioned congress for the passage of an act looking to the protection of both American and British authors. His object failed, although lie was backed by Henry Clay, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, and George Bancroft. He was for a time city editor of the New York Evening Post, W^illiam Cullen Bryant, editor; was employed by Harper and Brothers and by George P. Putnam, 1850-55, and was assistant librarian of the Astor library through the offices of Washington Irving, 1859-76, and librarian, 1876-96, when he was retired with full pay. He was married, Sept. 18, 1833, to Mary Ann Farr of London, Eng. The honorary de- gree of A.M. was conferred on him by Madison university, Hamilton. N.Y.. in 1853. He was the editor of Our National Centennial Jubilee (1877); and with Henry T. Tuckernian, of Homes of American Aidhors (1853). He contributed to the Knickerbocker Magazine; Democratic Rei-ieic; Neio York Qnarterhj; and is the author of: Memoirs of the Great Metropolis, or London from, the Tou-er to the Crystal Palace (1852); Neic Yoi'k in a Xat-shell (1853); Salad for the Solitary (1853; rev. ed., 1856-1872); Salad for the Social (1856); Pearls of Thought. Religious and Philosophical, Gathered from Old Authors (1858); Mosaics (1856); Festival of Song, with 73 illustrations (1868); Abo2it Womeri, Love, and Marriage (1868); Evenings with the Sacred Poets (1869); Pastime Papers (1885); The Story of Some Fa- mous Books (1887); Stray Leaves of Literature (1888); Story of the Discovery of the New World (1892); Character Studies (1894). He died in New York city. Dec. 12. 1902.

SAUNDERS, Romulus Mitchell, statesman, was born in Caswell (then Orange) county, N.C., March 3, 1791: .son of W^illiam Saunders (an officer in the 0th regiment, N.C. troops during the Revo- lutionary war, 1777-83, and an original member of the .Society of the Cincinnati) and Hannah (Mitchell) Saunders, liis wife; grandson of W^il-