Excerpt from Twelfth Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: Containing an Account of the Annual Meeting Held at Ann Arbor, March 31, April 1 and 2, 1910; Prepared Under the Direction of the Council
Mr. Sayer was born on a farm, called the "Sayer Homestead," near Wayne. IDuPage county, Illinois, January 13th, 1876. From childhood to his Academy days he passed on the farm. He received no other schooling during the first ten years of his life than that furnished by a companionable, intelligent mother, who directed his studies. After his tenth year, he attended the country school till he entered the "Elgin Academy" in 1892. Three years later, he graduated from the Academy and entered Beloit College.
His college days proved a formative stage in his career by developing within him a taste for the association of a college, friends, study, culture - all the features which are constituents of a college atmosphere - and a basic and intuitive love for his home. His home became the retreat for his college chums, his mother, their foster-mother. Both college and home were linked together in his mind and in his life, as inseparable support to action. Throughout his career, these two factors were prominent, even foremost. His graduation from Beloit occurred in 1899. Ambition of a noble type was aroused in him, and instigated by his parents, he undertook special work in the University of Chicago, choosing bacteriology and chemistry for his chief lines of study. In 1901 he was placed in charge of a laboratory at Grafton, Illinois, by Dr. E. O. Jordan; for the purpose of examining the waters of the Chicago Drainage Canal. With the discontinuance of this work in January, 1902, he returned to the University to pursue the course of study, he had begun, until the autumn of 1902. At this time, he quit the University, but before leaving he had completed all of his work, except the thesis, for his doctorate degree. He entered the employ of the Kennicott Water Softener Company as a chemist. He remained with this firm for four years, and in the s)ring of 1907 he was called to the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Michigan Agricultural College to undertake research work. His attention was at first centered upon the Keeping Qualities of Butter, and, conjointly with Dr. Otto Rahn and Miss Bell Farrand, issued the results of the first years investigations in bulletin form from the Experiment Station.
All of his training directed his tastes into the field of soil investigations. It became possible for him to satisfy his desires with the departure of Prof. Walter O. Sackett for Foil Collins, Colorado. Mr. Sayer picked up the thread where Mr. Sackett dropped it, and centered all of his force in this work. Mr. Sackett also turned over the office of Secretary-Treasurer of The Michigan Academy of Science to him at the same time, with the consent of the council. At the annual meeting of the Academy, he was again made Secretary-Treasurer, as a recognition of his faithful and efficient services.
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