[Sayre Smuggler narratives] [1940, 1964]
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Sayre, Gertrude B.
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Gertrude B. Sayre was the wife of Robert H. Sayre, manager of the Smuggler Mine near Telluride, Colorado. The Smuggler Mine was discovered by John Fallon in the mid-1870s, and the mine produced silver ores with traces of gold and lesser metals throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. General managers of the property included Thomas Ernest Waters, Arthur Collins, and Bulkeley Wells. Robert Sayre was replaced as manager of the Smuggler in 1940, and, sometime afterwards, the mine w...
Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907
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Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...
