Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Savidge, C. R. 1851 - living in 1899

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HON. C. R. SAVIDGE, judge of the Eighth Judicial District of Pennsylvania,

residing in Sunbury, Northumberland County, is an indefatigable worker and

possesses a legal turn of mind which, coupled with superior executive ability,

made him a successful attorney and now make him an excellent judge. He carries

with him into the chamber of justice the energy and business push so

characteristic of the man, which enable him to dispose of as much legal

business, perhaps, as any judge in the state, in the same length of time. He is

pleasant and affable, a good conversationalist, was an able advocate, and is now

a distinguished jurist.



  Judge Savidge was born January 19, 1851, in Trevorton, Northumberland County,

Pa., and is a son of Samuel K. and Ellen (Campbell) Savidge. He is of

Scotch-Irish descent.



  Samuel K. Savidge, father of our subject, was born in Rush township,

Northumberland County, and was a mason and bricklayer by trade. He was united in

marriage with Ellen Campbell and to them were born the following children: C.

R., subject of this sketch; Harmon C., manager of Whitmer & Sons' lumber

business in West Virginia; and Lizzie A., wife of Willard Robinson of West

Virginia. Our subject's father and mother were both devout members of the

Methodist Episcopal Church, and died, respectively, in 1853 and 1882.



  Judge Savidge obtained his early education in the public schools and by self

tuition, having from early childhood evinced a fondness for books and study. At

the age of fourteen years he began teaching in the district schools of

Northumberland County and taught for four years. In 1867-70 he taught in the

public schools of Danville after which he entered college at Princeton, N. J.,

graduating therefrom in 1874. He was a classmate of Henry M. Hinckley and James

Scarlett, well known citizens of Riverside and Danville, respectively.

Subsequently, in 1874, he read law with Hon. S. P. Wolverton of Sunbury, and in

February, 1877, he was admitted to the bar of Northumberland County. Immediately

after his admission, he actively and energetically entered upon the practice of

his profession and soon took a high rank as an able and thorough-going lawyer.



  In his political affiliations our subject is a Democrat and in 1880 was

elected by that party to the office of district attorney by a majority of 1,066

votes. In 1891 he was elected judge of the Eighth Judicial District and is now

filling that office very acceptably to the people.



  December 31, 1875, Judge Savidge was united in marriage with Louise Essick of

Montour County, Pa., and to this union seven children were born: Harry W., a

graduate of Dickinson Law School at Carlisle, Pa.; Albert C.; Ralph W. E.;

Preston M.; Louise; Lucile; and one, deceased. The Judge's family are willing

workers in the Baptist faith. Socially the Judge is a valued member of the blue

lodge, F. & A. M., the Conclave; and Knights of the Golden Eagle. A portrait of

the subject of this sketch is shown on a preceding page.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)



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