Savage, William Rutherford, 1854-1934.

Represented in the collection are William Rutherford Savage, Episcopal priest of Virginia and North Carolina; his parents Thomas Staughton Savage (1804-1880), scientist and Episcopal missionary to Liberia, and Elizabeth Rutherford Savage (1817-1899), also a missionary; his brothers Thomas Rutherford Savage (1851-1918), physician of Kalamazoo, Mich., and New York, N.Y., and Alexander Duncan Savage (1848-1935), curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; and his sister Jessie Duncan Savage, an artist, who in 1884 married Thomas L. Cole, an Episcopal priest.

From the description of William Rutherford Savage papers, 1826-1953. WorldCat record id: 26320448

Thomas Staughton Savage (1804-1880) + Elizabeth Rutherford (1817-1899)

Bessie (1847-1860)

Alexander Duncan (1848-1935)

Thomas Rutherford (1851-1918) + Grace ?

Pauline

William Rutherford (1854-1934)

Jessie Duncan (1859-1940) + Thomas L. Cole

Bessie (1887- ) + Fritz G. Cornell

Bobbie

Betty

Thomas Casilear (1888-1976)

Sophie (1889- )

Dorothea + ? Macomber

Leonard

Dr. Thomas Staughton Savage was an Episcopalian minister stationed at Camp Palmas, Liberia, during the 1830s and 1840s. He returned to the United States in 1848 residing in Natchez, Miss., and Sumterville, Ala., before becoming rector of an Episcopal Church in Pass Christian, Miss., in 1849. He moved to Rhinecliff, N.Y., in 1867-1880, with his family.

William Rutherford Savage was an Episcopal priest and missionary like his parents, Thomas Staughton and Elizabeth Rutherford Savage. He attended Episcopal High School and the Theological Seminary of Virginia in the 1860s and 1870s. Savage's first parish was on the Virginia coast where he built, with Bishop Alfred M. Randolph, the Chapel by the Sea at Virginia Beach. During this time, Savage began his association with the Life Saving Stations of Cape Henry, Va., and Nags Head, N.C. He also did missionary work in Tazewell County, Va., traveling from parish to parish.

In the early 1900s, Savage went to the Blowing Rock area of North Carolina under the direction of Junius Horner, Bishop of Western North Carolina. He worked at missions there, in Valle Cruces, and in Boone. Savage remained in this area until his death in 1934, except for a period from 1916 to 1918 when he was in Bloxom, Va., and Nags Head, N.C. After his retirement in 1922, he continued his missionary work in Glendale Springs, N.C.

From the guide to the William Rutherford Savage Papers, ., 1826-1953, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)