BIO: James SAVAGE, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 247.
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  SAVAGE, JAMES, was born in North Wales, February 25, 1823, and died 
in Cimmaron, New Mexico, November 10, 1881, where he was superintending 
a mine for his brother, Col. E. G. Savage.  He emigrated to America 
with his parents, who settled in Minersville, where he learned the 
trade of a machinist.  In 1849 he came to Wiconisco to put up the 
engine for the Lykens Valley Breaker, which he ran a year, and then 
went to California.  There he stayed two years, and returned in 1852 
and accepted a position under the Short Mountain Coal Company.  He 
hoisted the first car of coal ever taken out of the Wiconisco mines.  
In 1855 or 1856 he became superintendent of the Lykens Coal Company 
under George E. Hoffman.  In 1861 he went to California again, where he 
remained until 1865, when he returned and located at Gilberton, 
Schuylkill county, in charge of the Gilberton Coal Company.  In 1867, 
with Col. E. G. Savage and Benjamin Kaufman, under the firm name of 
Savage, Brother & Kaufman, he leased a tract of coal land of the 
Philadelphia & Reading railroad, developed what is now known as 
"Brookside Colliery," and established the operation as a successful 
one.  Then they sold it to George S. Repplier & Co.  He was 
subsequently its superintendent, and afterwards in various enterprises 
in Tremont for ten years.  He may justly be regarded as the pioneer of 
the Wiconisco coal mines.