George Slocum Folger Savage

George Slocum Folger Savage (also GSF Savage , born June 29, 1817 in Upper Middletown , Middlesex County , Connecticut , † August 6, 1915 in Chicago , Cook County , Illinois ) was an American congregational clergyman .

Life

Family and education

Consisting of Upper Middletown, now Cromwell, originating George Slocum follower Savage, son of Captain Absalom Savage and Sally Wilcox Savage, in 1844 acquired the academic degree of Bachelor of Arts at Yale University in New Haven , 1847, he graduated from Yale Theological Seminary .

George Slocum Folger Savage married on September 28, 1847, Elizabeth P. Prudden, who was born in Cromwell and died in 1886. On February 7, 1888, he married Margaret Hyde, who was born in Chicago, for the second time. Residing on Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Savage died in 1915 at the age of 98. He found his final resting place in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery .

Professional background

George Slocum Folger Savage was ordained in the pastoral ministry of the Congregational Church in 1847 . Savage then took up a pastoral position in St. Charles , Illinois, which he resigned in 1860. Subsequently he was employed as Secretary for the American Tract Society in Chicago until 1872 . In 1854 he was appointed Secretary and Director of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Savage, who also acted there as treasurer from 1872 to 1886 , was ceremoniously adopted into retirement in 1903. He has served as trustee at Beloit College since 1850 .

George Slocum Folger Savage, corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions , has worked closely with the Illinois State Congregational Association since 1848. Savage served as president of the Illinois Congregational Church History Society and director of the Congregational Education Society and several religious and educational associations. George Slocum Folger Savage, one of the leading congregational figures of the United States of his day, was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology (Doctor of Divinity) from Iowa College in 1870 and that of Chicago Theological Seminary in 1903.

Publications

• Death of saints precious. A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Eleanor S. Town, wife of Dr. DK Town, June 7th, 1854, in the Congregational meeting-house at Batavia, Ill. Hays & Thompson, Chicago, 1854
• Pioneer Congregational Ministers in Illinois: the kind of men they were, and the work they did. in: Genealogy & local history, LH9079. The Advance, Chicago, 1876ff
• Flavel Bascom, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, June 8, 1804. Died in Princeton, Illinois, August 8, 1890. Streeter, Princeton, Ill., 1890

literature

• Advance Company: The Advance: Volume 2555. Advance Company, Fort Worth, Tex., 1914, p. 1484.
• Alfred Theodore Andreas: History of Chicago: From the fire of 1871 until 1885. AT Andreas, Chicago, Ill., 1886, p. 810
• Who was Who in America with world notables: Volume IV, 1961-1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 829.

Web links

• George Slocum follower Savage in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• George Slocum Folger Savage on the Prabook.org website