John Theodore Saxe was the senior member of the firm of Saxe Brothers and a professor at the Albany Academy.

Biography

He was born on April 22, 1843 in St. Albans, Vermont

St. Albans, Vermont

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 to John Godfrey Saxe

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 and Sophia Newell Sollace. He graduated from the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

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 in 1862, A.B., 1865, A.M. He was the senior member of the firm of Saxe Brothers, lumber merchants. He was a professor in the Albany Academy, 1862-1863. He married in New York City, January 18, 1876, Mary Bosworth. She died at Albany, April 27, 1881. Her parents were Chief Justice Joseph Sollace Bosworth, of the superior court of New York, and Frances Pumpelly. They has as their son, John Godfrey Saxe II

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. He died at Albany, New York

Albany, New York

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on June 30, 1881.