Fred Saigh, at right, with (from left) Jane Hadley, Vice President Alben Barkley and Ruth Coburn at a Cardinals game at Sportsman's Park on Aug. 12, 1949. Hadley and the vice president later married. Coburn was a civic volunteer and wife of prominent lawyer Richmond Coburn. Post-Dispatch file photo
ST. LOUIS • Fred Saigh became an attorney the old-fashioned way, by apprenticing in a law office. He got his license to practice in 1928 and handled routine criminal cases.
He briefly owned a company that operated an early version of cigarette machines, but it went bankrupt.