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gical seminary in 1864. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1864, and was married in the same year to Ella A., daughter of the Eev. John and Ann (Godfrey) Dodge of Harvard, Mass. He was a home missionary to California, 1864-67; pastor at Framingham, Mass., 1867-69, and at Han- nibal, Mo., 1869-73. He joined the Uni- tarian body in 1873, and was minister in Chicago, 1873, and of the Church of the Unity, Boston, 1874- 96, when he became the associate of the Rev. Dr. Robert Coll- yer at the Church of the Messiah, New York city. The hon- orary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1896. He edited: Sacred Songs for Public Worship and a Unitarian Catechism; and is the author of: Christianity the Science of Manhood (1873); Light on the Cloud (1876); The Religion of Evolu- tion (1876); Bluffton: a Story of To-Day (1878); Life Questions (1879); The Morals of Evolution (1880); Beliefs about Jesus (1881); Belief in God (1883); Beliefs about Man (1883); Poems (1882); Beliefs about the Bible (1883); The Modern Sphinx (1883); Man, Woman and Child (1884); The Religious Life (1885); Social Problems (1886); 3/^ Creed (1887); These Degenerate Days (1887); Religious Reconstruction (ISS8); Signs of the Times (1889); Heljjs for Daily Living (1889); Life (1890); Four Great Questions Concerning God (1891); The Irrepressible Conflict between Two World-Theories (1891); The Evolution of Christianity (1893); 7s this a Good World (1893); Jesus and Modern Life (1893); A Man (1895); Religion for To-Day (1897); Our Unitarian Gospel (1898); Hymns (1898); Psychics, Facts and TJieo- Hes(1899); Life Beyond Death (1900), and The Passing and the Permanent in Religion (1902).

SAVAGE, Richard Henry, author, was born in Utica, N.Y., June 13, 1846; son of Richard and Jane Moorhead (Ewart) Savage; grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Savage and of Robert and Jane (Nevin) Ewart, and a descendant of the Savages of Worcester, England, the Nugents of Portaferry, Ireland, and the Ewarts of Stirling, Scotland. His paternal grandfather, a civil engineer, came from Great Britain about 1805, He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1868, and was promoted 2d lieutenant, corps of engineers, serving till 1871, when he joined the Egyptian army with the rank of major. He

went to Marseilles, France, as U.S. vice-consul, and to Rome, Italy, as U.S. vice-consul in 1872. He was mari'ied, Jan. 2, 1873, to Anna Josephine Scheible, daughter of Carl Scheible and Hortense Josephine (von Rapedius) von Ruthishausen of Berlin, Germany. He was joint commissioner on the Texan-Mexican frontier commission, 1873-74, and was employed as chief engineer of the Corpus Christi and Rio Grande R.R. company in Texas, 1874-75. He was admitted to the bar of the U.S. supreme court in 1890. He was appointed senior major of 2d U.S. volunteer engineers in May, 1898, and served throughout the Spanish- American war, and in November, 1898, personally hoisted the first American flag in Havana. He was senior captain with the rank of major of the 27th U.S. volunteer infantry, July 5-Dec. 1, 1899, and was appointed brigadier- general and chief engineer of Spanish war veterans, Oct. 10, 1900, He was elected com- mander-in-chief of the National Spanish-American War Veterans, Oct. 11, 1902. His many publish- ed books include: My Official Wife (1891); Delilah of Harlem (1893); The Little Lady of Lagunitas (1893); For Life and Love (1893); The Masked Fe?it<s (1893); The Flying Halcyon (1894); hi the Old Chateau (1895); A Daughter of Judas (1895); After Many Years, poems (1895); Miss Devereu.v (1895); The Anarchist (1896); In the Shadow of the Pyramids (1896); In the Stcim (1896); The Hacienda on the Hill (1900); The Shield of His Honor (1900); The Midnight Passenger (1900); Brought to Bay (1900), and other novels, stories, lectures and essays.

SAWTELLE, Charles Greene, soldier, was born in Norridgewock, Maine, May 10, 1834; son of Cullen and Elizabeth (Lyman) Sawtelle; grandson of Richard and Sarah (Ware) Sawtelle and of Josiah Dwight and Betsey (Whiting) Ly- man, and a descendant of Richard Sawtell (be- lieved to have first settled at Groton, Mass.), who died at Watertown, Mass., Aug. 21, 1694. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1854; was assigned to the infantry and served on frontier duty at Fort Ripley, Minn., 1854-55, and on the Sioux expedition of 1855. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, 6th infantry, March 3, 1855, 1st lieutenant, July 1, 1859; served as quar- termaster, 1857-61; was stationed in California, 1858-61, and appointed acting regiment adjutant, April 29, 1861. He was in charge of the quarter- master depot at Perry ville, Md., 1861-62; was promoted captain of staff and assistant quarter- master. May 17, 1861, and served in the Virginia Peninsular campaign in 1862, and as acting chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac in the Maryland campaign. He was promoted lieu- tenant-colonel of staff. Nov. 12, 1862. was chief quartermaster of the 2d corps, in the Rappahan-