Biographical Sketch of Frank N. SAVAGE (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 280-1. "FRANK N. SAVAGE, one of the leading young farmers of East Coventry town- ship, now residing on the old Savage homestead near Parker Ford, is the youngest son of Davis and Aquilla (Harley) Savage, and was born in East Coventry township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1863. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Zenus Savage, was a native of Chester county, and for many years a farmer of East Coventry township, where he died at an advanced age, on the old homestead now in possession of Frank N. Savage. He was a democrat in political opinion, and married Rebecca March, by whom he had a family of four children: Washington, now deceased, but a resident of East Coventry township during life, where he was engaged as a farmer and carpenter, having also been connected with the foundry and stove manufacturing business; Davis (father); Emaline, married George Missiner, and after his death wedded Hern Dietrick; and Elias Swortley, who now resides in Florida. Davis Savage (father) was born at the old homestead in East Coventry township, December 29, 1828. He was educated in the common schools and afterward taught one term himself, when he settled down to farming in East Coventry township. There he continued to reside engaged in agricultural pursuits, until his death, February 5, 1890, when in his sixty-second year. Polit- ically he was a republican, and his sound judgment and other stable qual- ities caused him to be elected justice of the peace in his township, an office he administered with satisfaction to the public and credit to him- self during an entire decade. In 1850 he married Aquilla Harley, a daugh- ter of Benjamin Harley, of North Coventry township, who was a farmer in early life, a butcher in his later days, and served for fifteen years as a justice of the peace in his township. By this marriage Mr. Savage had a family of five children: Wilmot, born October 17, 1851, and died November 14, 1851; Rebecca, born October 9, 1852, married Christian Miller, of Seattle, State of Washington, a contractor and builder in the employ of the Puget Sound Improvement Company, who has four children - Davis, Chanceford, Edmund and Ina Kate; Allen, born March 7, 1854, deceased August 25, 1861; Caroline, born November 23, 1856, married Elwood Leopold, a prosperous farmer of East Coventry township, and has one child - Stella; and Frank N., the subject of this sketch. The mother, Mrs. Aquilla Savage, was born July 11, 1829, and passed away from earth August 27, 1891, at almost the exact age at which her husband died in 1890. "Frank N. Savage was reared at the old homestead in East Coventry town- ship, this county, inured to farm labor and familiar with all the varied processes of successful agriculture. He received a good English education in the public schools of the neighborhood, and after leaving school deter- mined to become a farmer, and has spent all his life in the cultivation of the soil. He now owns a fine farm of forty-two acres of valuable land, splendidly improved and supplied with all necessary farm buildings. In- heriting the energy and enterprise of his ancestors, he promises to attain still greater success in the years to come. "On Christmas day, 1883, Mr. Savage was wedded to Amelia J. Reagan, a daughter of Washington Reagan, residing near Pughtown, this county. Their union has been blessed by the birth of one child, a son named Davis Wash- ington, who was born January 9, 1885."