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* SAUSSUBE. 594 SAVAGE'S STATION. cmlioilioa in Voi/(iff(« (/<iH.s- iiv.l'/J'* (■» vols., 1770- an illcgiUmalc s<in of Kicliard Savage, Lord IKt) His wii"tiii"s iiifhuk': Uhscrviitioiis stir Rivers, by the Countess of MacclesluUl. The Viimcc des fiuilUs tt des ihUuIcs (1702); De Countess, while living apart from her husband, I'nuipiiis Errurum yoslrornm Causis, ex Mentis Charles Gerard, second Earl of Macelesfield, bore rucultiilihiis Oriumlis (1702); De EUciricilute to Lord Rivers two children, a daugliter, who (1700) ; l)c Aiiiia (1771) ; and .Sin- Vlnjuromitri'! (17S.S), the last named embodying the results of researches in regard to the properties of moisture- laden air. died in infancy (1095), and a son. christened Richard Smith (January 18, H)!)7). who seems to have died the year of his birth. The Earl ob- tained a divorce from his wife (lOOH), who mar- ried (1700) Colonel Henry Brett (d.l724). The SAUSSUBE. Nicoi-A? Theodore de (170,- ,,,t n;,,,,,,,,! ^ probablv of obscure birth 1SJ.">|. A Swiss botanist, son of Horace de 1" ',, . , , ," ',; _. •, , , _ , ,,:,.. Saussiire. born in Ceneva and educated there He assisted his father in his jiliysical rcscarclics and in his orographical studies, and made some valuable expcrinii'iils as to almosplicric density. Hut his woik on i)lant i)hysiology, lUrhcrchcs chimkjues sur la vvyvtalion (1804), is his great claim to fame. He was the first to undertake a (juantitative analysis of the nutriment of plants and urged the Diesis that the vegetable organism is formed from larlKiiiic acid abstracted from the air. SAUTERNES, so'tflrn'. A village in the De- partment of Gironde, France, 27 miles by rail southwest of Bordeaux. It is situated in the famous white-wine producing region of South- M-estern France and gives its name to the best brands. Pojiulation, in 1!)01, n,34. SAVAGE, .Tames (1784-1873). An Ameri- can ]iolitical leader and antiquary, born in Boston. .Mass.. and educated at Harvard. He was openly claimed to be the son christened Richard Smith. According to the usual story, to which Dr. .Johnson gave eurrcncj' in his famous Lifi; of Haviiyc (1744), the child, neglected by the Countess, was committed to a nurse and afterwards to her mother. Lady Mason, who sent liim to a grammar scliool at Saint Albans. The Countess prevented I.,or<l Rivers from leaving him XtiOOO, at- temiited t<i have him kidnapped and sent otV to the West Indies, and finally in despair a|ipi'ciiticcd liim to a London shoemaker. An accident revealed the secret of his birth, and the boy quitted his obscure trade. The entire account was de- rived solely from Savage's own statements, and is now wholly discredited. Savage profited by the legend. In 1727 Savage killed a man in a tavern brawl and was sentenced to death, but a pardon was ol)tained by the intercession of the Countess of Hertford. Lord Trconncl, a nephew of Mrs. Brett, received him into his liouseliold. a memiier of the State lOxecutivc Council, of the In course of time the two men quarreled, and Con>titiitioiial Convention of 1820, and at dif- Savage was thrown upon the world. On the ferent times, of both branches of Hie Legislature, death of Laurence Eusden (1730), Savage trieil He founded and was successivelv .secretary, to obtain the laureateship, but failed. The treasurer, vice-president, and president of the Queen, however, permitted him to address odes Boston Provident Institution for Savings. Among to her, and conferred upon him a pension of £50 his publications are editions of .lohn Winthroii's a year. Two years after the death of the Queen History of Aew EiuiUmd from KIM) to Id!,'.} a pension of the same amount was raised by (1825-20 and 1853), and a valuable (Icncaloqivdl Pojie and others (1739), and Savage was sent Dirtiuiitin/ of the First Settlers of New England off to Swansea in Wales. After st.aying there for ( lSOO-04). Consult llilliard, Memoir of the Hon. a year he went to Bristol, where he was arrested JiiiiKs S,irn(ie (Boston, 1878). for debt. He died in prison August 1, 1743. „,,T«/-iTi i«- T /1DJ1 « TT • II's works comprise: Woinan's a Riddle (per- SAVAGE, MiNOT JunsoN (1841-). A Uni- ^^^^^^^^j ^^ ^,^^ Convoeation, a poem (1717) ; t^rmn.^vv.iyman He ^^ hornet ^ovnd^i-y^oek. Thomas bverbury, a tragedv ( 1723) ; The Me entered liowdoin College, but left before the ^^^.,^^. ^ /^ The Wanderer, a poem end of his course, and pursued his theological ,i-.i,, i 'i ii ■ i I 1- i. i> c ■ r< • • T 1 (1(21) ; and considerable occasional verse, studies at Bangor Seminary. Commissioned Ijy the American Home Missionary Society in 1804, SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG, George Francis. he spent the three following years at San Mateo See AinisTRO.N'G, (iEORGE Francis Savage. and Grass Vallev, Cal., then settled at Framing- ham, Mass., but removed to Hannibal, JIo., in 1809. While preaching in the latter place his views underwent so decided a change that he at length withdrew from (lie Congregational Church, and in 1H73 becanu^ [lastor of the Third Unitarian Church of Chicago. The next .vear he was called sular campaign of the Civil War. between a ])art to the Church of the Unity in Boston and re- of MeClellan's Federal Army of the Potomac, niained there until 1890, when he removed to under Generals Sumner and Franklin, and a ]iart New York and became minister at the Church of Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, of the Messiah, ranking among the advanced under General Magruder. It was one of the thinkers of his denomination. He has published Seven Days' Battles (q.v.) fought by Genernl The Kelif/ion of Erolution (»^C^) ; Life Questions McClellan during his change of base from the SAVAGE ISLANB. See NiVE. SAVAGE'S STATION, or ALLEN'S FARM, Battle of. A battle fought near Savage's Station, about 10 miles east of Rich- mond, Va., on June 29, 1802. during the Penin- (1879); 77ic ;I/orn;,s of Evolution (1880); lie lief in (lod (1881) ; Ileliefs Ahoiit Man (1882) ; Beliefs About the Hible (1883); Man, M'oman, and Child (1884); ,Socin7 Froblems (1880); My Creed (1887); Jesus and Modern Life (1893) ; Life lieyond Death (1899) ; The Passiny and the Permanent in Religion (I90I). SAVAGE, Richard ( ?-1743) York to the .James River. After the battle of Gaines's Mill (q.v.) Generals Heintzelman. Sum- ner, and Franklin were directed by McClellan to hold the Federal lines immediately south of the Chickahominy. This force was weakened on the 29tli by the withdrawal of Heintzelman across White Oak Swamp, and by the retirement of An English Slocum's division of Franklin's corps, which had poet, who was, according to the current legend, suffered severely at Gaines's Mill. On the same