Springs. Va., 22 Aug., 1882. He studied survey- ing, practised his profession in New York city, and acquired a fortune. He was an active mem- ber of the Reformed Dutch church, in which he held many offices of trust, and built and endowed the library of the theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., which bears his name, and which he presented to the general synod. This was dedi- cated on 4 June, 1875, and" now (1898) contains 70.000 volumes. He also founded a chair of Old Testament exegesis in the seminary, gave a resi- dence for one of the professors, also large sums for the maintenance of Hertzog Hall, and made other bequests to aid the institutions of the Re- formed church in New Brunswick. His gifts amounted to nearly $250,000.
SAGE, Henry Williams, philanthropist, b. in
Middletown, Conn., 31 Jan., 1814; d. in Ithaca,
N. Y., 17 Sept., 1897. He was a descendant of David
Sage, who settled in Middletown in 1652. His fa-
ther, Charles, was shipwrecked on the coast of Flor-
ida in is:>s, and murdered by Indians. The boy's
preparation for Yale at Bristol, Conn., was inter-
rupted by his removal to Ithaca, N. Y., and in 1832
he entered mercantile life. In 1854 he established a
lumber-manufactory on Lake Simcoe, Canada, and
later, with John McG-raw, another at Wenona (now
West Bay City), Mich., which at that time was one
of the largest in the world. Mr. Sage was one of the
most extensive landholders of Michigan. From
1857 till 1S80 he resided in Brooklyn, and was an ac-
tive member of Plymouth church. He took much
interest in founding Cornell university, and in 1873
erected there a college hall for women, which is
known as Sage college. After the death of Ezra
Cornell lie was made president of the board of trus-
tees of Cornell university. He endowed the Lyman
Beecher lectureship on preaching at Yale, and built
and presented to West Bay City, Mich., a public li-
brary at a cost of $30,000. Mr. Sage also endowed
and built several churches and schools. His gifts
to Cornell amounted to more than a million dollars.
SAGE, Russell, financier, b. in Oneida county,
N. Y., 4 Aug.. 1816. He received a public-school edu-
cation, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Troy. In 1S41 he was elected an alderman, and he
was re-elected to this office until 1848, also serving
for seven years as treasurer of Rensselaer county.
He was then elected to congress as a Whig, and
served, with re-election, from 5 Dec., 1853, till 3
March, 1857. Mr. Sage was the first person to ad-
yocate, on the floor of congress, the purchase of
Mount Vernon by the government. Subsequently
he settled in New Y r ork city and engaged in the
business of selling " privileges " in Wall street. At
the same time he became interested in railroads,
and secured stocks in western roads, notably the
Milwaukee and St. Paul, of which he was presi-
dent and vice-president for twelve years. By dis-
posing of these investments, as the smaller roads
were absorbed by trunk-lines, he became wealthy.
In late years he' has been closely associated with
the Goulds in the management of the Wabash. St.
Louis, and Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Mis-
souri, Kansas, and Texas, the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western and the St. Louis and San
Francisco railroads, the American cable company,
the Western Union telegraph company and the
Manhattan consolidated system of elevated rail-
roads in New York city, in all of which corpora-
tions he is a director. Mr. Sage was for many
year- closely connected with the affairs of the
Union Pacific road, of which he was a director.
He has been a director and vice-president in the
Importers and traders' national bank for the past
twenty years, also a director in the Merchants'
trust company and m the Fifth avenue bank of
Neu York city.
SAGEAN, Mathieu (sah-zhay-ong). Canadian
explorer, b. near La Chine about 1655; d. in Biloxi,
La., about 1710. He early entered the service of
Hubert Cavalier de La Salle (q. v.), assisted in the
building of Fort Saint Louis of the Illinois, and
was left there under Henry Tonty (q. r.) in KiSl.
Being desirous to make new discoveries, he obtained
leave shortly afterward from Tonty and set out at
the head of eleven Canadians and two Mohegan
Indians. They ascended the Mississippi about 500
miles, and then, their provisions being exhausted,
stopped a month to hunt. While thus engaged
they found another river flowing south southwest,
carried their canoes to it, sailed about 450 miles,
and found themselves in the midst of an Indian
tribe dwelling in well-built villages and governed
by a chief who claimed descent from Monte-
zuma. On his return to Canada. Sagean was cap-
tured by English pirates upon the shores of the
St. Lawrence and compelled to take service among
them. He followed a life of adventure for about
twenty years in the East and West Indies, but
toward 1700 he found his way to France and en-
listed in a company of marines at Brest. There
he revealed the secret of his discoveries in America.
Hi- Mory was written down from his dictation and
sent to the secretary of the navy. Count de Pont-
chartrain, who caused inquiries to be made, ami. as
a result. Sagean was sent to Biloxi, near the mouth
of the Mississippi, with orders that he should be
supplied with the means of conducting a party to
the country he had discovered, and which he rep-
resented as being rich in gold. But the officers in
command neglected their instructions, and suffered
the order to remain unexecuted. Sagean's discov-
ery has been contested, inasmuch as he described
the country as a kind of El Dorado, but other au-
thors contend that, aside from these exaggerations,
Sagean's discovery was real, and that he saw the
remains of an ancient Mexican tribe that had
emigrated northward after the Spanish conquest.
Sagean's story, written from his dictation, is pre-
served among the manuscripts in the National
library at Paris. It was translated into English
and published by John Gilmary Shea in his series
of memoirs and narratives concerning the French
colonies in America (1862).
SAGER. Abram. physician, b. in Bethlehem,
N. Y., 22 Dec.. 1S10; d.' in Ann Arbor. Mich., 6
Aug., 1877. He was graduated at the Troy poly-
technic school in 1831, studied medicine in Albany
and at Yale, and was graduated at the Medical
school of Castleton, Vt., in 1835. He settled in
Detroit and afterward in Jackson, Mich. From
1S37 till 1840 he assisted in the geological survey
of Michigan, having charge of the department- "I
botany and zoology, of which branches he was pro-
fessor in the state university from 1842 till 1855.
In 1850 he was made professor of obstetrics, and
in 1854-'60 he had the chair of diseases of women
ami children, but he resigned in 1875, when the
board of regents introduced homoeopathy. He was
a member of various medical and scientific socie-
ties, and was president of the Michigan medical
society in 1850-'2. Dr. Sager contributed papers
to medical jqurnals, and published reports on bot-
any and zoology in 1839. His collection laid the
foundation of the present museum of the univer-
sity, to which he also presented the " Sager Her-
barium " of 1.200 species and 12.000 specimens.
SAGRA, Ramon de la (sah -grah), Spanish economist, b. in Coruiia in 1798; d. in Cartaillac,
