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The strong men of Will county are passing away rapidly.. These en tered public life in civil war times, an occasion when strength is brought out and developed A change is going on, less exciting and perhaps less interesting which will again bring the best in human nature to the front. Business, morals, education, the churches and the man ner we live are undergoing a we able revolution and great men or now in the making. Of those war-days, and the break ing days of the war Amog, Savage was one of the solid men of the county, and one of its leading citizens during the remaining days of his ac tivity of his early days, our correspon dent, Griffin Marshall, a Homer neighbor writes: “The death of Capt. Amos, Savage comes more nearly home to the lit tle community of Marley where, since retiring from the farm, he has spent the declining years of his life, than it wiht to the larger country where he engaged in the active pursuits of life, public or private, and whereas with active men he met with some rivalry. At Marley it has been dif ferent. Here has been his role of the sage and adviser—friend of all—his kingly ways endearing him to young and old alike. He gave freely of his means to all calls of charity and none were turned away from his door hungry. “Captain Savage gloried in the Grand Army of the Republic. — His love for old comrades in arms, knew no bounds. Any who wore the blue, when the nation needed help, was a brother. But taps have now sounded for him, as it is continually sounding, day after day for some old comrade. A few years more and the last will be called and the G. A. Reei will be @ memory only, sure of “when ‘fighting for the” wee —he knew also he was fighting to the right. He had no sympathy with a modern idea that so many seem to have—that both sides were right. This idea was abherent to him and were it true then the war was a cruel mistake. Captain Savage's patriotism was strong enough that he was will ing to leave to future generations the verdict, to say which was right.”
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The Joliet Weekly News
Joliet, Illinois, US
Thu, Mar 31, 1910
Page 6
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