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John was born on March 9, 1825 at Ithaca, New York, United States. His father, Welcome, a successful physician, was a member of a Rhode Island family, the founder of which, John, came from England in 1650. His mother was Harriett Elizabeth Sergeant, of Massachusetts, daughter of a noted Presbyterian clergyman and missionary to the Oneida Indians.
In 1845 John was awarded the degree of B. A. by Hamilton College, Clinton.
John began teaching in New York State at the age of fifteen and later taught in Georgia. In 1845 he removed to Texas, settling at Brenham. Here he taught school and read law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and three years later became associated in practice with Col. Barry Gillespie, a distinguished lawyer and planter. A later partnership, under the name of Sayles & Bassett, continued for nearly thirty years. In 1853-55, he was a member of the Texas legislature.
In addition to his work as a lawyer, he served from 1857 to 1860 as a member of the faculty of the law school of Baylor University, which is believed to have been the first law school established in Texas. He was again connected with the school for several years after it was reorganized in 1867.
During the Civil War he attained the rank of brigadier-general of militia and rendered distinguished service under Gen. J. Bankhead Magruder. In 1886 he removed to Abilene, in Western Texas, and with his son, Henry, established the firm of Sayles & Sayles.
His first volume, A Treatise on Practice of the District and Supreme Courts of the State of Texas (1858), consisting largely of his lectures to the law classes in Baylor University, passed through three editions. A complementary volume, A Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace (1867), ran through four editions, the last entitled Sayles' Guide for Justices (1894).
Another product of his law teaching was A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of Texas (1872). This work formed the basis of three others - The Rules of Pleading and Practice in the Courts of Record in the State of Texas (3rd ed. , 1882), in preparing which he was aided by his partner, B. H. Bassett; Revised Statutes of the State of Texas Relating to Organization, Jurisdiction and Practice of the District and County Courts (1886), in collaboration with his son, Henry Sayles; and, finally, the work of 1872 rewritten and published as the Precedents and Rules of Pleading in Civil Actions in the County and District Courts of Texas (1893).
In 1871, he brought out The Probate Laws of Texas; and in 1876, A Manual of the Laws of Business. In collaboration with his son, Henry, he published Early Laws of Texas (1888), and A Treatise on the Laws of Texas Relating to Real Estate (1891 - 92). In 1888 there appeared the fourth volume of what was intended to be a four-volume work on the constitution and statutes of Texas. This volume was the third edition of his The Constitutions of the State of Texas, the first and second editions of which had appeared in 1872 and 1884 respectively. The next volume of the series to appear was The Annotated Statutes, Civil and Criminal, of the State of Texas. Supplement for 1889 (1889); the third, Sayles' Annotated Civil Statutes of the State of Texas (2 parts), did not appear until 1897, the year of his death.
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In 1849 John was married to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of his first law partner, Col. Barry Gillespie. He had three sons and three daughters.
