The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-25
Founded LeI1iqh Road.

Founded LeI1iqh Road.
 Francis, died in 1907 in his S4th year. He had built the Lehigh Valley Rail- road and was later assistant to it's president. He had. founded and was general manager of the Bethlehem Steel Works. He was president of the Board of Trustees of Lehtgh Unf- versity. The mother. Mrs Martha Finley Nevin Sayre, still lives at Lam easter, Pa She has lived recently with the groom m-to-be in New York as her other son, John Nevin Sayre, a Princeton graduate. is doing mission ary work in China
 Mrs. Sayre's father was a theo1o- gian, John Williamson Nevin, who was president of Franklin and Mar Hugh Williamson, of North Carolina. one of the framers of the Constitu- tion.
 Fond of travel. exploration and ad- venture, but primarily Interested for the revelations of human nature which they bring forth, Sayre has in his short span of years seem much Of College in 1905 and finished his course in three and a half years. He graduated in 1909 at the head of his class and won the Phi Beta Kappa key, a trinket symbolical of merit, whichs his bride also won in hef co1- 1ege days. He managed the football team, organized the Good Government Club to study municipal government and took trips with members of that club to sociological institutions to study child labor and other problems of social welfare.
 He was active in committee work of the Y. M. c. A., took great interest k1-<1 <.1- on the Varsity debating teams, more over, did a great deal of tramping and. horseback riding over the New England hills as well as to play tennis and go canoeing.
 Explored Far North.
 He went as the personal assistant to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfen to do hos pital work along the coast of Labra- dor in 1909. Bucking ice on the dan gerous northern coast proved more than once a. hazardous undertaking. Dr. Grenfe1l's little steamer-the Strathcona--is practically the only one that brings medical help to the north, and it was in those days when young Sayre joined him in holding services on the rocks for the Labrador fishermen, that an affection and close friendship developed, which is reflect ed to-day in the selection of Dr. Gren- fell as best man at the wedding. In cideIfaIly, it is returning the comp1i- ment, for three years ago Sayre acted as one of the ushers at the wedding of Dr. Grenfell and is godfather to Wi1fred Grenfell, Jr.
 When returning from the Grenfen camp in 1909, Sayre missed his steam CT but found the arctic ship-Roose- veIt-with Peary aboard, at Battle Harbor, and acted as secretary for 4yf Newfoundland, he tramped 100 miles in ten days with friend. They could not keep the route p1anend and, after much suffering from black flies in the forest underbrush, reached the habitation of a friendly hermit ex- hausted from want of food and rest.
 They had had no guides, and took only the supplies they could carry on their backs. Sayres companion on this expedition was pr. Dewitt Scoville Clark, Jr., of Salem; Mass, one of the ushers at the wedding.
 Travels In Alaska.
 Once the same two travelled 2,30o miles down the Yukon River in Alas ka~ And when they got to Nome, they wanted to get to Siberia across the Boring Strait. Most folk told them it couldn't be done, but they set out in a 15-ton schooner which they to pick up, and after 8 thrill ling adventure in 8 deep fog, hauled up against Asia.
 Sayre got as far north as 66 de- grees, and in the summer of 1911 took a trip with some Indians to see some gold claims in Alaska On that occa- sion too, he felt some thrills as he l and his companions in two short dug | outs shot over cascades and falls be- i tween mountains and glaciers in the l K1ehina River. | Besides his explorations around the l Arctic Circle, Sayre's recreations have 1 several months on sheep | ranches in Wyoming and Montana. | with the fun of riding the round l ap." He rode across the State of Wy l 1ming once, and has hunted elk and | 1eer in the Rockies. He once added 1 70 his variety of experience a winter | a the coal mines at Birmingham, Ala.
 Plans Public Life.
 At the Harvard Law School, where ne entered in the fall of 1909, he 1iv- Id without ostentation, graduating in 1912 cum laude. There he met and became an intimate friend of Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., a. son of the Su- orerne Court Justice, who is to be an lsher at the wedding.
 After leaving the law school, Sayre entered the office of District Attorney Whitman in New York, where he has been for about a year.
 Sayre's ambition Is to enter public