Frederick C. Sayles
{{Short description|First mayor of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Frederick Clark Sayles
| image = Frederick_Clark_Sayles_engraving.jpg
| caption =
| office = First Mayor of Pawtucket, Rhode Island
| term_start = 1885
| term_end = 1887
| predecessor =
| successor =
| party =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1835|7|17}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1903|6|5|1835|7|17}}
| death_place = Pawtucket, Rhode Island, US
| resting_place = Swan Point Cemetery
| spouse = Deborah Cook Sayles
| children =
| alma_mater =
| profession = Businessman
| relations = Frederick William Holls (son-in-law)
}}
File:Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library.jpg
Frederick Clark Sayles (July 17, 1835 – June 5, 1903) was an American entrepreneur and the first mayor of Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1885.{{cite web |title=Hearthside Families |url=https://www.hearthsidehouse.org/hearthside-families |website=Hearthside House Museum}}
Career
He began working in his brother's Sayles Bleacheries in 1853, and eventually became a partner in the business.{{cite web |title=Sayles Bleacheries |url=http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss006sg1.htm |publisher=Rhode Island Historical Society |access-date=19 February 2019}} Saylesville, Rhode Island is named for his family.
He bought the Hearthside farm in Lincoln, Rhode Island in 1901. At this property, he raised prized Broodmare horses.
He was very involved in the Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island.
Personal life
He married Debra Cook Wilcox and had three children. After the death of his wife, Sayles donated a plot of land for the construction of a public library in Pawtucket. The Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library opened in 1902 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pawtucketlibrary.org/ourhistory.htm|title=Pawtucket Public Library - Our History|website=www.pawtucketlibrary.org|access-date=2019-02-12}} His daughter, Deborah Wilcox Hill and her husband Fred B Hill, contributed to the construction of the Sayles-Hill men's gymnasium (later turned student center) at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, named in Sayles' honor in 1910.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPpEAQAAMAAJ&q=sayles&pg=PA12|title=Carleton College Bulletin: Catalog number|last=Minn.)|first=Carleton College (Northfield|date=1912|publisher=The College|language=en}} His other daughter, Caroline M. Sayles, married Frederick William Holls, a lawyer and diplomat who served as the Secretary of the United States Delegation to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.{{Cite web|title=DEATH OF G.F.W. HOLLS; Well-Known Lawyer Succumbs Suddenly to Heart Disease. Was Secretary of the United States Delegation to The Hague Peace Conference -- Other Public Services.|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/07/24/105055810.html?pageNumber=3|access-date=2022-02-12|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com|language=en}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|31568952}}
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