Pre-Cardinals Years
Saigh, the son of Lebanese immigrants who owned a chain of grocery stores, was the oldest of five children. He was born in Springfield, Illinois, and grew up in Kewanee, Illinois. He attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University with a law degree in 1926, at age 21. and became a highly successful tax and corporate lawyer and investor in St. Louis. In the 1940s, he owned prime office buildings in downtown St. Louis.
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