Sayre family : lineage of Thomas Sayre, a founder of Southampton . Danville, Ky. But the Sayre Female Institute of Lexington, Ky., was the greatest monu-ment of this philanthropist. The buildings and grounds cost him almost onehundred thousand dollars; and to this Mr. Sayre added largely during his lifetime,endowing it with apparatus, furniture, etc. It was donated to the trustees inperpetuity, and is one of the most complete and best furnished female institutionssouth of the Ohio. The Alumnae of Sayre, now numbered by hundreds, arescattered all over the country. It was incorporated with colle
Sayre family : lineage of Thomas Sayre, a founder of Southampton . Danville, Ky. But the Sayre Female Institute of Lexington, Ky., was the greatest monu-ment of this philanthropist. The buildings and grounds cost him almost onehundred thousand dollars; and to this Mr. Sayre added largely during his lifetime,endowing it with apparatus, furniture, etc. It was donated to the trustees inperpetuity, and is one of the most complete and best furnished female institutionssouth of the Ohio. The Alumnae of Sayre, now numbered by hundreds, arescattered all over the country. It was incorporated with collegiate powers in1854, or seven years before Vassar College, which is older than Wells, Smith,Wellesley or Bryn Mawr. It was incorporated when, according to Presi-dent Raymond of Vassar, not a single endowed college for young women ex-isted in all Christendom. Section 6 of the Charter, says that the Corporationshall have the power of conferring diplomas, and doing all the acts of incorpor-ated colleges. Its Constitution states that in accordance with the design of. DAVID AUSTIN SAYRE,Lexington, Ky. Seventh Gen.: Line of Ep/iraim,^ Daniel,^ Daniel,^ Joseph^ 2>Z2> the generous founder, the object of this institution is .... to afford female educa-tion of the widest range and highest order. David A. Sayre was therefore en-titled to the great honor of being the pioneer in the Southwest, and one of theleaders in the United States, of the higher education of women, the novelty, be-nignity and grandeur of which idea, says Matthew Vassar, arrested myattention. David A. Sayre died on the nth of September, 1870, when, says a biographer, the city of Lexington was mourning a death felt in every household. Thetrustees of Sayre Female Institute passed resolutions to keep alive a respect forhis memory, and his birthday was set apart as a holiday in the Institute, to beknown as Founders Day. The Northern Bank of Kentucky resolved that inhis death it had lost a trusted adviser, and a member
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