Frederick C. Sayles

Frederick Clark Sayles (July 17, 1835 – June 5, 1903) was an American entrepreneur and the first mayor of Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1885.

Career He began working in his brother's Sayles Bleacheries in 1853, and eventually became a partner in the business. Saylesville, Rhode Island is named for his family. He bought the Hearthside farm in Lincoln, Rhode Island in 1901. At this property, he raised prized Broodmare horses. His daughter, Deborah Wilcox Hill and her husband Fred B Hill, contributed to the construction of the Sayles-Hill men's gymnasium (later turned student center) at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, named in Sayles' honor in 1910. His other daughter, Caroline M. Sayles, married Frederick William Holls, a lawyer and diplomat who served as the Secretary of the United States Delegation to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.