SAVAGE
SAWTELLE
gical seminary in 1864. He was ordained to the
Congregational ministry in 1864, and was married
in the same year to Ella A., daughter of the Eev.
John and Ann (Godfrey) Dodge of Harvard,
Mass. He was a home missionary to California,
1864-67; pastor at
Framingham, Mass.,
1867-69, and at Han-
nibal, Mo., 1869-73.
He joined the Uni-
tarian body in 1873,
and was minister in
Chicago, 1873, and of
the Church of the
Unity, Boston, 1874-
96, when he became
the associate of the
Rev. Dr. Robert Coll-
yer at the Church
of the Messiah, New
York city. The hon-
orary degree of D.D.
was conferred on him by Harvard in 1896.
He edited: Sacred Songs for Public Worship
and a Unitarian Catechism; and is the author
of: Christianity the Science of Manhood (1873);
Light on the Cloud (1876); The Religion of Evolu-
tion (1876); Bluffton: a Story of To-Day (1878);
Life Questions (1879); The Morals of Evolution
(1880); Beliefs about Jesus (1881); Belief in God
(1883); Beliefs about Man (1883); Poems (1882);
Beliefs about the Bible (1883); The Modern Sphinx
(1883); Man, Woman and Child (1884); The
Religious Life (1885); Social Problems (1886);
3/^ Creed (1887); These Degenerate Days (1887);
Religious Reconstruction (ISS8); Signs of the
Times (1889); Heljjs for Daily Living (1889);
Life (1890); Four Great Questions Concerning
God (1891); The Irrepressible Conflict between
Two World-Theories (1891); The Evolution of
Christianity (1893); 7s this a Good World (1893);
Jesus and Modern Life (1893); A Man (1895);
Religion for To-Day (1897); Our Unitarian Gospel
(1898); Hymns (1898); Psychics, Facts and TJieo-
Hes(1899); Life Beyond Death (1900), and The
Passing and the Permanent in Religion (1902).
SAVAGE, Richard Henry, author, was born in Utica, N.Y., June 13, 1846; son of Richard and Jane Moorhead (Ewart) Savage; grandson of Richard and Elizabeth Savage and of Robert and Jane (Nevin) Ewart, and a descendant of the Savages of Worcester, England, the Nugents of Portaferry, Ireland, and the Ewarts of Stirling, Scotland. His paternal grandfather, a civil engineer, came from Great Britain about 1805, He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1868, and was promoted 2d lieutenant, corps of engineers, serving till 1871, when he joined the Egyptian army with the rank of major. He
went to Marseilles, France, as U.S. vice-consul,
and to Rome, Italy, as U.S. vice-consul in 1872.
He was mari'ied, Jan. 2, 1873, to Anna Josephine
Scheible, daughter of Carl Scheible and Hortense
Josephine (von Rapedius) von Ruthishausen of
Berlin, Germany. He was joint commissioner
on the Texan-Mexican frontier commission,
1873-74, and was employed as chief engineer of
the Corpus Christi and Rio Grande R.R. company
in Texas, 1874-75. He was admitted to the bar
of the U.S. supreme court in 1890. He was
appointed senior major of 2d U.S. volunteer
engineers in May, 1898, and served throughout
the Spanish- American war, and in November,
1898, personally hoisted the first American flag
in Havana. He was senior captain with the rank
of major of the 27th U.S. volunteer infantry,
July 5-Dec. 1, 1899, and was appointed brigadier-
general and chief engineer of Spanish war
veterans, Oct. 10, 1900, He was elected com-
mander-in-chief of the National Spanish-American
War Veterans, Oct. 11, 1902. His many publish-
ed books include: My Official Wife (1891); Delilah
of Harlem (1893); The Little Lady of Lagunitas
(1893); For Life and Love (1893); The Masked
Fe?it<s (1893); The Flying Halcyon (1894); hi the
Old Chateau (1895); A Daughter of Judas (1895);
After Many Years, poems (1895); Miss Devereu.v
(1895); The Anarchist (1896); In the Shadow of
the Pyramids (1896); In the Stcim (1896); The
Hacienda on the Hill (1900); The Shield of His
Honor (1900); The Midnight Passenger (1900);
Brought to Bay (1900), and other novels, stories,
lectures and essays.
SAWTELLE, Charles Greene, soldier, was born in Norridgewock, Maine, May 10, 1834; son of Cullen and Elizabeth (Lyman) Sawtelle; grandson of Richard and Sarah (Ware) Sawtelle and of Josiah Dwight and Betsey (Whiting) Ly- man, and a descendant of Richard Sawtell (be- lieved to have first settled at Groton, Mass.), who died at Watertown, Mass., Aug. 21, 1694. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1854; was assigned to the infantry and served on frontier duty at Fort Ripley, Minn., 1854-55, and on the Sioux expedition of 1855. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, 6th infantry, March 3, 1855, 1st lieutenant, July 1, 1859; served as quar- termaster, 1857-61; was stationed in California, 1858-61, and appointed acting regiment adjutant, April 29, 1861. He was in charge of the quarter- master depot at Perry ville, Md., 1861-62; was promoted captain of staff and assistant quarter- master. May 17, 1861, and served in the Virginia Peninsular campaign in 1862, and as acting chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac in the Maryland campaign. He was promoted lieu- tenant-colonel of staff. Nov. 12, 1862. was chief quartermaster of the 2d corps, in the Rappahan-
