Bio of SAVAGE, Erie B. (b.1883), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 687-688
ERLE B. SAVAGE
Erie B. Savage, president of the Savage Factories Company of Minneapolis, was
born at Iowa Falls, Iowa, February 1, 1883, and is a son of M. W. and Marietta
(Bean) Savage. He completed his early education in the Central high school at
Minneapolis and later attended the University of Minnesota, becoming a member of
the Beta Theta Pi during his college days. Throughout the intervening period he
has made steady progress, constantly extending the scope of his activities,
which have grown equally in importance and in extent. In 1903 he was the
organizer of the International Stock Food Company, Limited, in Canada, and the
success of the undertaking has resulted from ambition, determination and
enthusiasm. Realizing that the Canadian market offered splendid opportunities
for business in connection with the products manu­factured by the International
Stock Food Company of Minneapolis, Mr. Savage began manufacturing its
preparations in Toronto, Ontario, in 1903. He started the enterprise on a small
scale in unpretentious quarters with but a few employes. His business policy was
to give every customer the greatest value for his money and to consider no
business transaction too small or trivial to receive the earnest consideration
and attention of the company. Step by step he has advanced in the development of
the interests of the International Stock Food Company, Limited, until it has
reached its present dimensions as one of the largest undertakings of the kind in
the world. In 1907 the International Stock Food Company, Limited, was converted
into a limited liability organization with Mr. Savage as the active head, and
since that date the busi­ness has steadily grown and prospered, so that from
time to time it has been necessary to secure new and larger quarters. Today the
company occupies a modern, four-story, fireproof, brick building, has at its
disposal many thousands of square feet of floor space and employs a large staff.
There is practically no hamlet or village in Canada where the name
"International" is not well and favorably known. From coast to coast the
preparations sent out by the company enjoy a large and ever-increasing sale. The
company disposes of its product largely to dealers, several thousands of whom
handle its preparations. The Canadian branch of the business does not by any
means cover the scope of the company's activities, for they conduct as well a
large trade throughout the British possessions and are constantly making
extensive shipments to South Africa, West Indies, to Australia and other parts
of the globe. An important feature in the growth of the business has been its
advertising methods along educational lines, whereby the International products
have been introduced and become known to the general public. In addition to the
advertisements in general farm papers and other periodicals, enormous quantities
of literature in the form of booklets, pamphlets and educational matter have
been sent out, and it is safe to say that the renown of Dan Patch is as well
known throughout Canada as it ever was in the United States, due in a great
measure to the circulation in every part of the country of literature and
reproductions of this famous pacer whose history is so closely linked with that
of the International Stock Food Company of Minneapolis.
Veterinary preparations of every description and special tonics for live stock
are manufactured by the company in Toronto. These preparations cover a wide
range and are intended to supply the user with a quick and reliable remedy to
care for the majority of ailments of live stock that occur on the farm. The
success of the business is due to the indefatigable energy, sound foresight and
acumen of Mr. Savage, who possesses splendid powers of organization and who is a
most capable executive. Not only has he promoted and controlled the
International Stock Food Company of Minnesota and of Canada, but on the 17th of
January, 1907, organized the Internationa! Sugar Feed Company under the state
laws of Minnesota, with E. B. Savage as president and treasurer, H. Wehmann,
vice president, and H. T. Heydrick, secretary and sales manager. This company is
engaged in the manufacture of mixed feed, containing molasses for all kinds of
live stock. Under the aggressive management and guidance of Mr. Savage sales on
International Feeds have steadily increased and annual sales during recent years
have exceeded three million dollars, the manufacturing plant being taxed to
capacity. In July, 1909, the International Sugar Feed No. Two Company was
organized under the state laws of Minnesota, with the same officers as the
original company, and the second plant is located at South Memphis, Tennessee,
manufacturing molasses feeds peculiarly adapted to the south. This mill sells
its product direct to Jobbers through its own force of traveling salesmen. The
business at South Memphis has likewise shown a rapid growth and sales during
recent years have exceeded two million dollars annually. The International Feeds
are known in almost every section of the world and the various business
interests have since been reorganized and co­ordinated under the name of the
Savage Factories Company, with Mr. Savage as the president.
Mr. E. B. Savage is also president and general manager of the M. W. Savage
Factories, Inc., one of the largest mail order houses in the Northwest, located
in Minneapolis. Mr. Savage organized this business in 1911, and has seen it grow
to its present size, with hundreds of thousands of customers scattered
throughout the Northwest. The business of this company is conducted entirely by
mail. It is one of the first mail order houses established in Minneapolis. Mr.
Savage foresaw the possibilities for success for a general mail order house
located at this strategic shipping point, and the success of The M. W. Savage
Factories, Inc., and the location of other mail order houses in the Twin cities
have demonstrated that his judgment was correct. This company handles
merchandise of all descriptions, and the average farm and home owner can supply
his entire needs from its mammoth stocks. In the busy seasons nearly seven
hundred people are required to handle its business.
On the 28th of December, 1903, Mr. Savage was married to Miss Pauline C.
Coggeshall, a daughter of John Coggeshall of River Falls, Wisconsin. Mr. and
Mrs. Savage have a daughter and two sons: Marion Jean, John C. and Erie, Jr. The
religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church. Mr. Savage
belongs to the National Club of Toronto, Canada, and in Minneapolis is
associated with the Minneapolis Club, the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the
Minikahda Club and the Lafayette Club. His interest centers in all those
activities which make for public progress and improvement and for the adoption
of high ideals of service and of citizenship for the individual. He has never
allowed the accumulation of wealth to affect his relations with his fellowmen
and in him the objective and subjective forces of life are well balanced. While
success in large measure has rewarded his efforts, he has regarded the
accumu­lation of wealth as but a means to an end and the duties of citizenship
and his obligations to his fellowmen have also found prominent place in his
scheme of life.