Notes:
1 Jun 1850 - age 5
age 15 in 1860
age 25 in 1870
age 35 in 1880
age 54 in 1900
age 65 in 1910
age 75 in 1920
age 86 in 1930
Sayles, Lyman A., discharged for disability June 28, 1863, Company H.
31 October 1862 from Co. M.
Page 1, SD 3, ED 67, Veterans Schedule
Lines 2-3, House 2, Family 2
DR. LYMAN A. SAYLES, of South' Lyons, Michigan, a semi-retired physician, received his medical training in a way for which the opportunity is rarely given nowadays. At the age of sixteen, in June, 1862, he enlisted in Company IT. Michigan Third Infantry, for three years' service. By order of the War Department one thousand men were detailed as hospital stewards, one to be placed in each regiment under the surgeon in order to strengthen the medical department of the army. Dr. Sayles was the one chosen to serve in his regiment, and the work he did while performing his duties in that capacity gave him a far more strenuous and thorough training than probably any of our largest hospitals give their internes today. After his enlistment with the army expired he again took up the study of medicine, spending two years in Indiana under Dr. Arnold and two years in study and practice with Dr. Mallory in Michigan. His eldest brother, Dr. Edwin F. Sayles, then took him under his direction for the next two years. He first practised medicine in Kent, Montcalm, and Ionia counties, and did not come to Oakland county, until 1892. When the Michigan state medical examination was enacted in 1900 he went before the board at Bay City and received his certificate. Dr. Sayles was born in Keene, Ionia county, Michigan, October 21, 1844, one of a family of ten boys and five girls. His father, Cyrenus C. Sayles, was born in Lewiston, New York, in 1812, and his mother, Eliza (Gardner) Sayles, was of German extraction. They came to Michigan in the early days and settled upon a three hundred and twenty acre farm of oak timber land, which they spent the next few years in clearing. Lyman attended the district school during the three months' winter term, and at the age of thirteen passed the usual town examination for a teacher's certificate. As he was not allowed to teach, however, because of a state law requiring the applicant to be at least sixteen years old, he entered a private school at Fallisburg, Michigan, one and a half miles away. He attended there for a year and a half during the winter, and then changed to Lowell Academy, at Lowell. A year later he left school to enlist in the army. A year and a half after his enlistment, on November 3, 1862, he was discharged by a surgeon's certificate for disability and sickness, but in the fall of 1864 he again enlisted, in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry, Company A, and continued with his regiment until the the Grand Review in Washington, D. C. The regiment was then transferred to the west to assist in quieting the uprising of Pawnee and Sioux Indians. He remained with the regiment for five months, and was then sent out as a government scout until the end of his enlistment. He is now a member of Stantial Post, G. A. R., of South Lyon. Between his enlistments Dr. Sayles was married, on February 24, 1863, to Miss Sarah E. Marston, of Lubec, Maine, and they have had two children, Emmet Clayton, at present the prosecuting attorney at Sandusky county, Ohio, and Jesse E., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, an expert finisher in cement work.
Sixth Cavalry, Company A.
W. H. Sayles was in the same company and mustered out 21 Jul 1865
Data source is Marie Owen. E-mail MarieOwen@hughes.net