Bios: SYLVESTER SAGE, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      SYLVESTER SAGE,
  
  [p. 479] general farmer, residing on the home farm of fifty acres in
  Shenango Township, was born in Neshannock Township, Lawrence County,
  Pennsylvania, April 29, 1856, and is a son of Joseph and Sarah
  (Champion) Sage.
  
  Joseph Sage was born in Somersetshire, England, April 3, 1817, and
  remained in his native land until after his marriage and the birth of
  one child, when he came to America and settled in Neshannock Township,
  Lawrence County. He had previously worked in coal mines and during his
  years of residence in Neshannock Township continued to follow mining. He
  also worked in the same industry in Indiana for about one year before he
  moved to Shenango Township and bought his farm of fifty acres. This has
  proved a good investment. It was then covered with timber, but in
  clearing a fine vein of coal was discovered and Mr. Sage followed mining
  together with farming his land for a considerable period. Although now
  in his ninety-first year he retains all his faculties and can boast of
  never missing a meal from sickness through his long life. He married
  Sarah Champion, who died in 1885. Five of their children grew to
  maturity namely: Samuel, who served through the Civil War; Elizabeth,
  who married Robert Mayberry, of Shenango Township; Hannah, deceased;
  Sylvester, and Isaac, both of Shenango Township.
  
  Sylvester Sage was reared and educated in Shenango Township. He has
  engaged in mining and farming all his mature life and owns fifty acres
  of valuable coal land. He married Catherine Davis, who is a daughter of
  James Davis, of Shenango Township, and they have four children: Myrtle,
  who married Samuel Badger, of Shenango Township; Sarah, who married
  Herman Booher; Ivory and Precious. Mr. and Mrs. Sage are members of the
  Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been a class leader for some
  eight years, and has also been superintendent of the Sunday school. Both
  he and father are stanch Republicans, but the only office he has ever
  accepted was that of school director, in which he served for seven years.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 27 Oct 2001