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SAYRE

judge of the supreme court of Texas in 1851 ; brigadier-general in the Texas militia during the civil war, and was on tlie staff of Gen. John B. Magruder. He was professor of law at Baylor university, Waco, Texas, 1880-99, and is the author of : A Treatise on the Practice in the District and Supreme Coiwts of Texas (1858); Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State of Texas (1867) ; Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of Texas (1873) ; Laws of Business and Form-Books (1873); Constitution of Texas with Xotes (1873) ; JVotes on Texan Bej^orts (1874); The Masonic Jurisprudence of Texas, with Forms for the Use of Lodges and the Grand Lodge (1879); and Revised Civil Statutes and Laivs, jjassed by the Legislature of Texas, with Notes (1888). He died at Abilene, Tex., May 33, 1897.

SAYRE, Lewis Albert, surgeon, was born at Bottle Hill, Madison, N.J., Feb. 89, 1830 ; son of Archibald and Martha (Sayer) Sayre ; grandson of Deacon Ephraim Sayre (born in 1746 in Madison, N.J., a soldier in tlie patriot army during the American Revolution) and Hannah (Meeker) Sayi'e, and of Jonathan and Mary (Morrell) Saj'er, and a descendant of Thomas Sayre, who was born in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, in 1597, settled at Lynn, Mass., before 1638 and removed thence to Southampton, Long Island, in 1648, where he built a house, which was still standing in 1903. He prepared for college at Wantage seminary, Deckerton, N.J. ; resided with his uncle, David Sayre, in Lexington, Ky., 1830-38, and was graduated from Transylvania university, 1838. He retui'ned to New Jersey and was graduated from the New York College of Pliysicians and Surgeons in 1843. He was pro- sector to Dr. Willard Parker (q.v.) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1843-53, and made prosector emeritus, 1853. He was surgeon of the Bellevue hospital, 1853-73 ; also surgeon in Charity hospital, Blackwell's Island, 1859-73. In 1873 he became consulting surgeon of both institutions. In 1861 he urged the establishment of a medical college at Bellevue hospital, and was a member of its faculty until it was consolidated with the New York university in 1898, when he was made emer- itus professor. He was resident physician of the city of New York, 1860-66, at which time he ad- vocated compulsary vaccination, the proper con- struction of tenement houses and eificient sewer- age of the city. He was a founder of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the New York Pathological society. In 1876 he was appointed by the American Medical association, of which he was also a founder, and of which he was vice-president and president, a delegate to the International medical congress in Philadelphia. In 1877 he went as a delegate to the British Medical association.

where he gave many demonstrations of his original methods of treating hip and spinal diseases. He attended the International Medical congresses at Amsterdam in 1879, at London in 1881, at Copen- hagen, 1884, and at Washington, 1887, and ateach of these he read papers and gave demonstrations of methods of treating spinal and hip diseases. He invented many surgical appliances to aid him in his specialty, and was the first to use plaster of Paris in spinal diseases. Charles XIV, king of Sweden and Norway, made him a knight of the order of Wasa. He was married, Jan. 85, 1849, to Eliza A. Hall, daughter of Charles Henry and Sarah (Mullett) Hall of New York city. She died in 1894. His eldest son, Dr. Charles H. H. Sayre, was killed by a fall; a second son. Dr. Lewis H. Sayre, died of heart disease m 1890, and a third son. Dr. Reginald H. Sayre, was profes- sionally associated with his father, and succeeded him as professor of orthopedic surger}- in the Uni- versity and Bellevue Hospital Medical college. His daughter, Mary Hall Sayre, assisted him in his literary labors. He is the author of : On Mechanical Treatment of Chronic Inflammation of the Joints of the Lower Extremities (1865); Practical Manual for the Treatment of Clubfoot (1869); Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and Dis- ease of the Joints (1876); Spinal Curvature and its Treatment (1877); Spinal Disease and Spinal Curvature (1878), and Lectures on Orthojjedic Surgery and Diseases of the Joints (1883). His works on orthopedic surgery and spinal diseases have been translated into French. German and Italian. He died in New York, Sept. 31, 1900.

SAYRE, Phoebe Ann. See Osborne, Phoebe Ann Sayre.

SAYRE, Stephen, patriot, was born at South- ampton, Long Island, N.Y., June 13, 1736; son of John (born 1693, died 1767) and Hannah (Howell) Sayre ; grandson of John and Sarah Sayre ; great-grandson of Francis and Sarah (Wheeler) Sayre, and great ^-grandson of Thomas Sayre, who came from Bedfordshire, England, to Lynn, Mass., in 1638. Thomas and his son. Job, were two of the original undertakers who founded Southampton, L.I., in 1640, Lynn being overcrowded. Stephen Sayre entered the College of New Jersey at Newark in 1753, and was graduated in its first class after its removal from Newark to Princeton, A.B., 1757, A.M., 1760. In 1759 he was captain of a Suffolk county, N.Y., pompany, raised for the French and Indian war, but saw no service. He went with his class- mate, Joseph Reed, to London in 1764-65, and entered the mercantile house of Dennis De Berdt, the Massachusetts agent, and in 1766 be- came partner. In June, 1766, he returned to America to collect bills from the debtors in the colonies, hoping to tide over a financial crisis.