Adolph Monell Sayre (1875-1936)

Monell Sayre, 59, Pension Head, Dies. Organized Fund Of Episcopal Church Here. Plan Widely Copied By Other Groups. Had Taught At Columbia. Ancestor Had Led Jeffersonians in Northern New Jersey During Campaign of 1796. Special to the New York Times. Washington, June 15. – Monell Sayre died today at the Lafayette Hotel here. He was 59 years old. A member of a well-known New Jersey family, He came to Washington in 1886. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1898, and was a member of the Harvard Club of New York and Cosmos Club of Washington. He was formerly Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, leaving to become a member of the staff on pensions of the Carnegie Foundation in New York. At the general convention of the Episcopal Church in 1913, Mr. Sayre established the pension fund for the clergy of that church and also helped with the foundation of the Pension Fund for the Clergy of the Church of England, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1933 he resigned as executive vice president of the fund in this country and returned to Washington.