. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . ttended for many years the Pres-byterian church, in the charities of which they havetaken an important part. Mr. Sage is not what isknown as a clubman, Ixit he belongs to the New Eng-land Society, and to a few other kindred associations. PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G F— RussellSage tvas horn at Verona, Oneida eoini/y, N. V.,August 4^, 1816 ; established a grocery store in Troy,N. V., in 183
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . ttended for many years the Pres-byterian church, in the charities of which they havetaken an important part. Mr. Sage is not what isknown as a clubman, Ixit he belongs to the New Eng-land Society, and to a few other kindred associations. PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G F— RussellSage tvas horn at Verona, Oneida eoini/y, N. V.,August 4^, 1816 ; established a grocery store in Troy,N. V., in 1837, and a similar wholesale establishmentin 1839: was alderman of Troy, 18^5—52, treasurerof Rensselaer county for seven years, and member ojcongress, 18S3—57 ; married Maria Winne if Troyin 18Ifl, who died in 1807 : married Margaret OliiiaSlocum of Syracuse in 1869 ; has been increasingly in-terested in railroad management since 1850, and inWall-street operations since 1801. amSi XorenSO iSSarber, whose name at oncesuggests perfect pavements, was born in Windhamcounty, Vermont, fifty-odd years ago. His familywere all Vermont people. His father, the D. Barber, deserves s]jecial mention because. RUSSELL SAGE of his singularly strong and noble character. Hewas one of the students who left the Lane Theologi-cal Seminary in Cincinnati in the early days ofthe slavery agitation, because the discussion of the 74 MEN OF NFAV YORK— MANHATTAN SECTION question had been forbidden by the faculty. Un-willing to endure such stifling of free speech, hewithdrew from the institution, walked across Ohioto Oberlin, and ultimately graduated from the theo-logical department of the college there.
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