SADLER
SADTLER
ber, 1861, and Wcos promoted inspector-general
with the rank of colonel, Oct. 1, 1861. He was
inspector-general. Army of the Potomac, 1861-63;
served on McClellan's staff in the Peninsnlar and
Maryland campaigns, and on Burnside's staff in
Virginia. He was in charge of the inspector-
general's olHce at Washington, D.C., in 1863;
served successively on the boards to organize the
invalid corps, and for retiring disabled oflicers,
1863-64; was on inspection duty in tiie depart-
ments of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas,
and New Mexico, 1864-65, and on March 13, 1865,
was brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry in
the field during the war, and major-general for
services during the war. He served on a tour of
inspection to and through Montana Territory to
the Pacific ocean in 1666; was inspector-general
of the departments of the Tennessee and of the
Cumberland, 1860-68; of the division of the
Atlantic. 1868-7:2, and under general instructions
from the war department, 1872-76. He was in-
spector-general of the division of the Missouri,
1876-81, and was promoted inspector-general of
the army with the rank of brigadier-general,
Jan. 2, 1881, succeeding Gen. Randolpli B.
Marcy as senior inspector-general. He died at
"Washington. D.C..:\rarch 8. 1885.
SADLER, Reinhold, governor of Nevada, was born in Prussia, Jan. 10, 1848; son of William and Wilhelmine Sadler. In 1864 he settled in Virginia City, Nev.; then spent a few j-ears in Austin, and in 1868 entered mercantile business in White Pine county, where he was county com- missioner in 1872. He was married at Hamilton, White Pine county, in 1874, to Louise, daugliter of William and Wilhelmine Zadow, and he later removed to Eureka county, where in 1875 he was made county treasurer. He was unsuccessful candi- date for state senator, state controller (1886), state treas- urer, and lieutenant-gov- ernor in 1 890. He was elected in 1894 on the Silver party ticket, lieutenant-governor, with John E. Jones for governor, and upon the death of Governor Jones, April 10, 1896, he suc- ceeded to the executive chair, completing the term. Jan. 1, 1899, and was re-elected, his term expirijig. Jan. 1, 1903.
SADTLER, Benjamin, educator, was born in Baltimore, Md., D.-c. 25. 1823; son of Philip Ben- jamin and Catherine (Sauerwein) Sadtler; grand- son of John and Ciiristina (Strom) Sadtler, and of Peter and Catherine (Steenburger) Sauerwein. His father came to the United States from Hom- burg in 1799; settled in Baltimore, and served with credit as a captain in the battle of North Point in 1814, having raised and equipped a com-
pany at his own expense. The Steenburger fam-
ily came from Holland and settled in Virginia
early in the eighteenth century. Benjamin Sadt-
ler was graduated at Pennsylvania college in
1842, and at the theological seminary, Gettys-
burg, in 1844. He was married, Oct. 25, 1845, to
Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Dr.
Samuel and Catiierine (Steenburger) Schmucker
of Gettj'sburg, Pa. He was pastor of the Lu-
theran church at Pine Grove, Pa., 1845-49; Ship-
pensburg. Pa., 1849-53; Middletown, Pa., 1853-
56, and of St. John's, Easton, Pa., 1856-62; prin-
cipal of the College for Women, Lutherville,
Md., 1862-76, and succeeded Frederick A. Muhlen-
berg, D.D., as president of Muhlenberg college,
Allentown, Pa., serving from 1876 until 1885,
when he was disabled by an accident and retired
to his home in Baltimore. He was a trustee of
Pennsylvania college, 1862-77, and received the
degree D.D. from there in 1867. He contributed
to Lutlieran periodicals, and is the author of the
following discourses: A Rebellioiis Nation Re-
i^roved (1861), and TJie Causes and Remedies of
the Losses of Her Population by the Lutheran
Church in America (1878). He died at Atlantic
City, N.J., April 28. 1901.
SADTLER, Samuel Philip, chemist, was born in Pine Grove, Pa., July 18. 1847; son of Benja- min (q.v.) and Caroline Elizabeth (Schmucker) Sadtler, and a descendant on the maternal side of Thomas Beale, who came from England in 1649 and settled in York countj% Va. He was gradu- ated at Pennsylvania college, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870; attended Lehigh imiversity, 1807-68, and was graduated at Harvard. S.B., 1870, and at the University of Gottingen, Ph.D.. in 1871. He was professor of natural science in Pennsyl'fania col- lege, 1871-74; assistant professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, 1874-86; profes- sor of organic and industrial chemistry there, 1887-91, and of chemistry in the Philadelphia Col- lege of Pharmacy from 1879. He was married, Dec. 17, 1872, to Mary Julia, dauglittT of John C. Bridges of Baltimore. Md. In 1885 he visited and reported upon laboratories in Europe for the trustees of the Univer.sity of Pennsylvania, who were about to organize a laboratory of industrial chemistry, but subsequently resigned his profes- sorship and engaged in practice as a consulting chemical expert. He was made a fellow of the Chemical societies of London and Berlin, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemi- cal society, the American Electro-Chemical so- ciety and the American Philosophical society, of which latter he also served for some years as secretary. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Pennsylvania college in 1902. He contributed to the American Journal of Phar-
