Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1915 — RETURNS TO LIVE IN BOYHOOD HOME [ARTICLE]

RETURNS TO LIVE IN BOYHOOD HOME

Rev. W. H. Sayler Comes Here to Make His Home After Absence of Thirty-Seven Years. Rev. W. H. Sayler and wife are now established in their home in Rensselaer, the former Fred Chapman property, and plan after an absence of 37 years to make this city their future home. Mr. Sayler was raised in Newton township and went to the war, serving in the 48th Indiana. He entered the ministry and in 1878 began his ministerial work in the west, where he has' ever since served in the Baptist church. He held pastorates in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakotas. His last pastorate was at Sturgis, S. Dak., and he recently came here from that place and with his good wife will spend their remaining days in a wellearned rest. Mr. Sayler does not look as old as he is, but his pastoral work, most of the time with charges that required him to mane drives overland to some of his churches, has preserved his health and he retires when still rugged and should enjoy many years of life. During the past eleven years in South Dakota he has been influential in the election of five new church buildings and has brought many into the churches. He has witnesstd a great deal of improvement in South Dakota and has seen the country almost double in population within a few years, while many of the towns have made rapid strides in keeping up with the fast developing country. Rev. and Mrs. Siayler will be given a warm welcome here, where they still have many friends notwithstanding the fact that they have been away for thirty-seven years.