Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1914 — Gave Liberally to Education. [ARTICLE]

Gave Liberally to Education.

Henry W. Sage, an eminent philanthropist, was born 100 years ago in Middletown, Conn. At the age of twenty he<<went to Ithaca, N. Y., and engaged in the mercantile business with an uncle. In 1854 he became interested in the lumber regions of Canada and the west. He bought extensive tracts of land, erected the largest sawmill in Michigan, and accumulated a large fortune as a lumber merchant. Some years later he returned to Ithaca, where he took an active Interest in the affairs of Cornell university. He established the Sage College for Women, and hts other benefactions to the university amounted to more than 11,000,000. He also endowed a lectureship at Yala college and founded a public library tn West Bay City, Mich. Mr. Sage was a trustee of Cornell university from 1870 until his death in 1897.