CLASS OF 1872

James Francis Savage died at his home in Lowell, Mass., July 2, 1920, after a lingering illness.

The son of Rev. Isaac Aylesworth and Mary Anne (Clarke) Savage, he was born in Lowell, February 24, 1849. His father died before he was five years old. He fitted for college at New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Tilton. His college fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

In the fall of 1872 he was principal of the high school at Zumbrota, Minn. In the following winter he was on the editorial staff of the Boston Daily News, and during the next year he read law at Derry, N. H., doing some teaching and working in a bank meanwhile. In the spring of -1874 he was principal of the Houghton School, Boston, Mass. In the ensuing fall he became private secretary for Tubal C. Owen of Detroit, reading law in his office and then in a Boston office.

January 2, 1876, he was admitted to the bar and from the following September to the next May practiced in Lowell. From October, 1877, to May, 1878, he practiced in Detroit and then again in Lowell to October, 1883 He had his office in Ware, Mass., to March, 1885, at which time he was appointed clerk of the police court of Lowell, and returned to that city. In February, 1919, at the age of seventy, he retired from this position, and the members of the local bar held a meeting in his honor, at which words of great appreciation were expressed, referring to his native modesty, constant kindness and courtesy, and considerate treatment of all persons who had business to transact with him. One speaker thus characterized him: "He came to us in honor, he has lived in honor, he goes forth in honor. 'Of manners gentle, in wit a man simplicity a child.'"

July 13, 1887, Mr. Savage was married to Mary Caroline, daughter of Andrew Maxham and Caroline (Moody) Smith of Lowell, who survives him, with a daughter.

Mr. Savage was a Mason (Knight Templar) and Odd Fellow, and a member of the Methodist church.