Notes:
age 4 in 1860
age 12 in 1870
age 21 in 1880
age 42 in 1900 (states b. 1858)
age 52 in 1910
Title: Portrait and biographical record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of ... citizens ... governors of the state, and ... presidents of the United States.
Publication Info: Chicago : Chapman brothers, 1892.
COMMODORE PERRY SAYLES, M. D., Secretary and Treasurer of the Kalamazoo Medicine Company, has the honor of being a native citizen of Michigan. Ile was born in Keene, Ionia County, on the 1st of April, 1858. Iis grandfather, Ahab Sayles, was a native of Cayuga County, N. Y., and had a family of four sons and eight daughters, all of whom reached the age of eighty years, while most of the number are yet living. His wife was a native of Scotland. The parents of our subject were Cyrenius Chapin and Eliza (Gardner) Sayles, the former a native of Cayuga County, N. Y., and the latter of St. Thomas, Canada. They became residents of Ionia County in 1840 and are still living on the old homestead. The family numbers fifteen children, ten sons and five daughters, all of whom are yet living and four of the sons are medical practitioners.' Dr. Sayles spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, and at the age of sixteen years entered the Union College at Lowell, from which he was graduated three years later. He was then a student for a year in the Ionia Union School and studied medicine with Dr. J. W. Webb, of Lowell, now of Chicago. He further fitted himself for practice in his chosen profession by a two-years' course of study in the medical department of the University of Michigan and was afterward graduated from the Michigan College of Medicine at Detroit in the Class of '84. He also took a special course in chemistry and then located at Burnips' Corners, Allegan County, the same year. On the 31st of August, 1888, we find the Doctor in Kalamazoo, where he opened an office and has since engaged in general practice. The following spring he also opened a drug store, in which he carries a complete assortment of drugs and medicines and is doing an excellent trade in that line. His specialty in medicine is the asthma cure and in the last three years he has been tlie means of restoring to health nearly two hundred afflicted with that disease. He is a close student of his profession, keeps well abreast with all its discoveries and is acknowledged to be one of the leading practitioners of this community. On the 20th of September, 1882, in Keene, Ionia County, Dr. Sayles was joined in wedlock to Miss Juliette, daughter of Alpheus Bowen, and a native of that city. She is a lady of culture and refinement and has engaged both in teaching school and music. IHer friends throughout the community are many, having been won through her many estimable traits of character. The Doctor is a Republican but is not an active politician. Unobtrusive in his manner, he is a man who wins and holds friends. On first meeting him, it is thought that he is of a retiring disposition, but no sooner is his acquaintance made than lie involuntarily wins tile respect of him whom hle has met. lie is a leading member of some of the fraternal associations; is a Mason, having attained the degree of Knight Templar, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Iis success in life has been such as to number him among the well-to-do citizens of the community.
aka: Kalamazoo Town Cemetery
Section J, Lot 30SW, Grave 02
a home with no mortgage
a home with a mortgage
Data source is Marie Owen. E-mail MarieOwen@hughes.net