WEBSTER EVERETT GRIFFITH, Assistant in Butter-Making. HERBERT HICE WHETZEL, A. B., Assistant in Plant Pathology in the Extension Department. SAMUEL FRASER, Assistant Agronomist." JAMES ADRIAN Bizzell, PH., D., Assistant Chemist to the Experiment Station. JOHN MAIN TRUEMAN, B. S. in Agr., Assistant in Animal Husbandry and Dairy Industry. WARREN H. MANNING, Lecturer in Outdoor Art. BRYANT FLEMING, B. S. A., Lecturer in Outdoor Art. G. ARTHUR BELL, A. F. A. SCHOLTZHAUER, W. F. BURLINGAME, Assistants in Winter Dairy School for 1904. GEORGE WALTER TAILBY, Farm Foreman. CHARLES EDWARD HUNN, Gardener. CLARENCE AUGUSTINE MARTIN, Assistant Professor of Architecture (giving instruction in Farm Home Course). HENRY NEELY OGDEN, C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (giving instruction in Farm Home Course). ROBERT G. ALLEN, Section Director Weather Bureau (giving instruction in Agricultural Meteorology). THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND STATION COUNCIL. EMMONS L. WILLIAMS, Treasurer of the University. JOHN H. COMSTOCK, Professor of Entomology. THOMAS F. HUNT, Professor of Agronomy. Other officers of instruction in the several faculties of the university give instruction in the fundamental branches preparatory to the agricultural electives. H Henry W. Sage ENRY W. SAGE was born in Middletown, Conn., January 31, 1814. He was a descendant of David Sage, a native of Wales, who settled in Middletown as early as 1652. His father, Charles Sage, married Miss Sally Williams, a sister of the Hon. J. B. Williams of Ithaca. Henry W. Sage was the eldest child. His early boyhood was passed in Bristol, Conn., until his father moved westward in 1827, with the early tide of emigration, and settled in Ithaca. In early years he learned the lesson which so many eminent Americans have had to acquire that of self-support and self-dependence. This discipline of sacrifice and of arduous toil was one of his earliest acquisitions. It had been the ardent wish of the boy to enter Yale College, but the removal of the family to this state interrupted the plan. Even in Ithaca his desire for a profession did not forsake him, and he began the study of medicine, which, however, he was forced by ill-health to abandon, and in the year 1832 he entered the employ of his uncles, Williams & Brothers, men of great energy and probity, who were merchants and large shipping agents, owning lines of transportation which traversed the lakes of Central New York, connecting, by means of the Erie Canal and 'No attempt at completeness has been made in this chapter, the biographical sketches being confined to a number of the principal benefactors of the university. A previous chapter is devoted to the life of the founder, Ezra Cornell. A detailed list of benefactions will be found in the Appendix. the Hudson River, with the trade of the metropolis. Mr. Sage's energy and business sagacity were soon manifested, and his enterprise enlarged the sphere of his activity. Five years later he became proprietor of the business. He early foresaw the rising importance of the West, and became interested in the vast forests of Canada and of Michigan. In 1854 he purchased a large tract of timber land around Lake Simcoe, in Canada, where he manufactured lumber on a large scale. He engaged, soon after, in business with John McGraw, and erected in Winona, Mich., a manufactory which, at that time, was regarded as the largest in the world. When comparatively a young man, during the memorable campaign of 1847, he was elected upon the Whig ticket to the legislature. In 1857 he removed to Brooklyn, where he resided until 1880. Here his great ability and, above all, the marked force of his character, made him at once one of the most prominent citizens. He was the friend of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and the great preacher, in all his difficulties, rested upon no heart with more intimate and tender affection than upon that of his parishioner, Henry W. Sage. In 1870 Mr. Sage was elected trustee of the university, and since 1875 he was president of the Board of Trustees. As a youth he wandered over the hills of this, his early home, and rejoined in the beautiful views of lake and valley; and he saw in the new university an opportunity to realize a purpose, which he had deeply cherished, to promote the higher education of women. Even when residing at a distance he had given generously the endowment which formed the Sage foundation for the education of women and erected the Sage Chapel, which his son, Dean Sage, in noble enthusiasm for his father's purpose, endowed, thus securing to the university the valuable courses of sermons which have |
