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Rh Springs. Va., 22 Aug., 1882. He studied survey- ing, practised his profession in New York city, and acquired a fortune. He was an active mem- ber of the Reformed Dutch church, in which he held many offices of trust, and built and endowed the library of the theological seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., which bears his name, and which he presented to the general synod. This was dedi- cated on 4 June, 1875, and" now (1898) contains 70.000 volumes. He also founded a chair of Old Testament exegesis in the seminary, gave a resi- dence for one of the professors, also large sums for the maintenance of Hertzog Hall, and made other bequests to aid the institutions of the Re- formed church in New Brunswick. His gifts amounted to nearly $250,000.

SAGE, Henry Williams, philanthropist, b. in Middletown, Conn., 31 Jan., 1814; d. in Ithaca, N. Y., 17 Sept., 1897. He was a descendant of David Sage, who settled in Middletown in 1652. His fa- ther, Charles, was shipwrecked on the coast of Flor- ida in is:>s, and murdered by Indians. The boy's preparation for Yale at Bristol, Conn., was inter- rupted by his removal to Ithaca, N. Y., and in 1832 he entered mercantile life. In 1854 he established a lumber-manufactory on Lake Simcoe, Canada, and later, with John McG-raw, another at Wenona (now West Bay City), Mich., which at that time was one of the largest in the world. Mr. Sage was one of the most extensive landholders of Michigan. From 1857 till 1S80 he resided in Brooklyn, and was an ac- tive member of Plymouth church. He took much interest in founding Cornell university, and in 1873 erected there a college hall for women, which is known as Sage college. After the death of Ezra Cornell lie was made president of the board of trus- tees of Cornell university. He endowed the Lyman Beecher lectureship on preaching at Yale, and built and presented to West Bay City, Mich., a public li- brary at a cost of $30,000. Mr. Sage also endowed and built several churches and schools. His gifts to Cornell amounted to more than a million dollars.

SAGE, Russell, financier, b. in Oneida county, N. Y., 4 Aug.. 1816. He received a public-school edu- cation, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Troy. In 1S41 he was elected an alderman, and he was re-elected to this office until 1848, also serving for seven years as treasurer of Rensselaer county. He was then elected to congress as a Whig, and served, with re-election, from 5 Dec., 1853, till 3 March, 1857. Mr. Sage was the first person to ad- yocate, on the floor of congress, the purchase of Mount Vernon by the government. Subsequently he settled in New Y r ork city and engaged in the business of selling " privileges " in Wall street. At the same time he became interested in railroads, and secured stocks in western roads, notably the Milwaukee and St. Paul, of which he was presi- dent and vice-president for twelve years. By dis- posing of these investments, as the smaller roads were absorbed by trunk-lines, he became wealthy. In late years he' has been closely associated with the Goulds in the management of the Wabash. St. Louis, and Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Mis- souri, Kansas, and Texas, the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western and the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads, the American cable company, the Western Union telegraph company and the Manhattan consolidated system of elevated rail- roads in New York city, in all of which corpora- tions he is a director. Mr. Sage was for many year- closely connected with the affairs of the Union Pacific road, of which he was a director. He has been a director and vice-president in the Importers and traders' national bank for the past twenty years, also a director in the Merchants' trust company and m the Fifth avenue bank of Neu York city.

SAGEAN, Mathieu (sah-zhay-ong). Canadian explorer, b. near La Chine about 1655; d. in Biloxi, La., about 1710. He early entered the service of Hubert Cavalier de La Salle (q. v.), assisted in the building of Fort Saint Louis of the Illinois, and was left there under Henry Tonty (q. r.) in KiSl. Being desirous to make new discoveries, he obtained leave shortly afterward from Tonty and set out at the head of eleven Canadians and two Mohegan Indians. They ascended the Mississippi about 500 miles, and then, their provisions being exhausted, stopped a month to hunt. While thus engaged they found another river flowing south southwest, carried their canoes to it, sailed about 450 miles, and found themselves in the midst of an Indian tribe dwelling in well-built villages and governed by a chief who claimed descent from Monte- zuma. On his return to Canada. Sagean was cap- tured by English pirates upon the shores of the St. Lawrence and compelled to take service among them. He followed a life of adventure for about twenty years in the East and West Indies, but toward 1700 he found his way to France and en- listed in a company of marines at Brest. There he revealed the secret of his discoveries in America. Hi- Mory was written down from his dictation and sent to the secretary of the navy. Count de Pont- chartrain, who caused inquiries to be made, ami. as a result. Sagean was sent to Biloxi, near the mouth of the Mississippi, with orders that he should be supplied with the means of conducting a party to the country he had discovered, and which he rep- resented as being rich in gold. But the officers in command neglected their instructions, and suffered the order to remain unexecuted. Sagean's discov- ery has been contested, inasmuch as he described the country as a kind of El Dorado, but other au- thors contend that, aside from these exaggerations, Sagean's discovery was real, and that he saw the remains of an ancient Mexican tribe that had emigrated northward after the Spanish conquest. Sagean's story, written from his dictation, is pre- served among the manuscripts in the National library at Paris. It was translated into English and published by John Gilmary Shea in his series of memoirs and narratives concerning the French colonies in America (1862).

'''SAGER. Abram.''' physician, b. in Bethlehem, N. Y., 22 Dec.. 1S10; d.' in Ann Arbor. Mich., 6 Aug., 1877. He was graduated at the Troy poly- technic school in 1831, studied medicine in Albany and at Yale, and was graduated at the Medical school of Castleton, Vt., in 1835. He settled in Detroit and afterward in Jackson, Mich. From 1S37 till 1840 he assisted in the geological survey of Michigan, having charge of the department- "I botany and zoology, of which branches he was pro- fessor in the state university from 1842 till 1855. In 1850 he was made professor of obstetrics, and in 1854-'60 he had the chair of diseases of women ami children, but he resigned in 1875, when the board of regents introduced homoeopathy. He was a member of various medical and scientific socie- ties, and was president of the Michigan medical society in 1850-'2. Dr. Sager contributed papers to medical jqurnals, and published reports on bot- any and zoology in 1839. His collection laid the foundation of the present museum of the univer- sity, to which he also presented the " Sager Her- barium " of 1.200 species and 12.000 specimens.

SAGRA, Ramon de la (sah -grah), Spanish economist, b. in Coruiia in 1798; d. in Cartaillac,