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his last will he bequeathed a sum of money for the education of an 

 infant grandson of Dr. Gannett. 



This sketch must be regarded as a mere outline of an industrious 

 life filled with good deeds, and with noble endeavors crowned with 

 success. Mr. Savage had marked traits of character. He formed his 

 opinions in the light of his own independent judgment, and was fearless 

 in exjjressing them. Though sometimes a little impatient of contradic- 

 tion, his thoroughly honest and unselfish motives gained for him the 

 respect of all who were blessed with his acquaintance. During the last 

 few years of his life his mind was seriously impaired, and he retired 

 from public notice. He died in the city of his birth on the 8th of 

 March, 1873 ; and the announcement of his death revived in the com- 

 munity the recollection of one of the most useful and valued of its 

 citizens. By his last will, dated 25th January, 18G7, he bequeathed 

 forty thousand dollars to Harvard College, the income to be applied, 

 first, to the support of one scholarship, not to exceed three hundred 

 dollars, and the surplus income to be divided between the Library and 

 the Astronomical Observatory. He also gave to the College the privi- 

 lege of selecting one hundred volumes from his library. To the 

 Historical Society he left five thousand dollars, the income of which 

 was to be used for the increase of its library ; also his cabinet of 

 coins, and one hundred volumes of books, to include his private copy 

 of Winthrop's History and that of his Genealogical Dictionary (six 

 volumes), containing manuscript additions and corrections. Subse- 

 quently, additional volumes from his library, and his papers relating 

 to historical and genealogical inquiries, were presented to the Society 

 by his family. 



In 1823 Mr. Savage married Elizabeth Otis, the widow of James 

 Otis Lincoln, and daughter of George Stillman, of Macliias, Maine. 

 Their children were one son and three daughters. One of the 

 dau2:hters married Professor William B. Rogers, late President of 

 the Tecluiological School in Boston ; another married the late Amos 

 Binney, of the same city. James, the son, was an officer in the 

 Second Massachusetts Volunteers (infiintry), during the late civil 

 war, and died at Charlottesville, Va., October 22, 1862, of wounds 

 received at Cedar Mountain. Of his children, Mrs. Rogers only sur- 

 vives him. 



Fraxcis Lieber, at his death in October last, stood at the head of 

 political writers in this his adopted country. He deserves a more 

 extended tribute, on account of his services as a man and a publicist, 



