CLASS OF 1871

Albert Russell Savage died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Auburn, Me., June 14, 1917.

He was born in Ryegate, Vt., December 8. 1847, the son of Charles W. and Eliza M. (Clough) Savage. He prepared for college at Lancaster (N.H.) Academy, and was a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

For the first year after graduation he was principal of Northwood (N.H.) Seminary, and then for two years of Northfield (Vt.) High School. He had studied law meanwhile, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in March, 1874. In March, 1875, he began practice at Auburn, Me., and began a long and brilliant career at the bar and bench. In 1881-5 he served as county attorney; in 1885-9 as judge of probate; in 1889-92 as mayor of Auburn; in 1891 and '93 as member of the Maine House of Representatives, of which he was speaker in the latter year; in 1895 and '97 as member of the state Senate. In 1897 he was appointed by the governor as associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and promoted in 1913 to be chief justice. His name had become a synonym for integrity, solidity, and ability.

He had been a trustee of the People's Savings Bank of Lewiston, of the Auburn Trust Company, and of Bates College. In 1889 and '90 he was supreme dictator of the Knights of Honor. In 1897 he published an Index-Digest of the Maine Reports. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him successively by Bates, Bowdoin, and Dartmouth.

Judge Savage was married August 17, 1871, to Nellie H. Hale of Lunenburg, Vt., who survives him, with a daughter, two other children having died.