California Biographies Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919) History By Paul E. Vandor Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919 Notes: Missing+page1185-1186 Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm H. A. SAVAGE. � A distinguished representative of the California Bar, whose increasing fame is due in part to his specializing in commercial and real estate law, in part to his high moral character and the confidence natu- rally reposed in him by all who know his life and daily standards, is H. A. Savage, the senior member of the well-known firm of Savage & Lovejoy, whose suite of offices is at 909 Griffith-McKenzie Building, Fresno. He is an excellent business man, and is becoming a large landowner, and thus more and more in touch with a field whose legal aspects he is called upon to elucidate and defend. Mrs. Savage enjoys the pleasant association with an historically interesting family, and as a lady of culture and great breadth of views, she is an excellent wife and mother. A native son, Mr. Savage was born at Terra Bella, in Tulare County, on September 30, 1888, and his father was P. M. Savage, a farmer of Tulare. He married Miss Flora Darby, who was born in J. Ogden Mills� mining camp on the American River, one of the first, if not the first white girl born there. Her father and her mother were natives of Texas and Mississippi, respec- tively, and they were married in Yolo County, California. H. A. Savage grew up on his father's grain farm, and as he began to work when he was a mere boy, he early learned to drive horses and mules, sometimes guiding as many as from eight to thirty-two horses and mules on a .harvester. In 1900 his parents moved from the farm to Sanger, where the lad attended both the grammar and high schools, and was graduated with the Class of '06. He then went to the University of California, where he pursued the regular four years' course in political science and was graduated with the Class of '10. when he received the degree of Bachelor of Letters. Finish- ing his work at Berkeley, he went East to Cambridge, Mass., and in Septem- ber, 1910, matriculated at the Harvard Law School; and three years later in June he was graduated from Harvard University with the J. D. degree. Returning to Fresno, Cal, he opened a law office and in 1913 he was appointed City Attorney of Sanger, and in that responsible capacity he has served that growing municipality ever since. His first office was in the Rowell-Chandler Building, which was just completed, and when the Griffith- McKenzie Building was finished, in 1915, Mr. Savage moved his offices there. The present partnership, which has proven so successful, was formed by Mr. Savage and G. R. Lovejoy, also a well-known attorney, in October, 1918. As a good manager and prosperous business man, Mr. Savage makes his showing in land ownership and development. He owns 320 acres in the Tivy Valley, where the Kings River emerges from the mountains, and with W. O. Miles, the president of the Union National Bank of Fresno, he owns the old Maze ranch on the north bank of the San Joaquin River. This consists of 2,400 acres, now being planted to vines and trees. He also owns four other ranches, two grain farms in Madera County, and two in Fresno County. One of these is in Perrin Colony No. 2, near Fresno ; and Mr. Savage also has 400 acres of timber lands at Pine Ridge. This ownership of agricultural land has made Mr. Savage much interested in the problems of irrigation. In his zeal and patriotism Mr. Savage during the war was very active in the different war and Liberty bond drives, giving of his time and best efforts. He was one of the "Four Minute Speakers" working under the direction of the Committee on Public Information at Washington ; with his ability as a public speaker and being popular he used his influence to arouse and sustain the patriotism of the citizens of Fresno County. At the Fresno High School during the Second Liberty Bond drive in a little more than an hour he raised over $104,000. President Wilson took personal notice of it and wired him his appreciation of his splendid work. This was the precedent that started the state-wide systematic Liberty bond work in the public schools. On August 20, 1910, Mr. Savage and Miss Eleanor A. Chambers were married at Sanger. The bride was born at Yakima, Wash., and later gradu- ated from the Sanger High School and the San Jose State Normal School, and for a while, during the time when Mr. Savage was a student at Harvard, she also pursued courses at Radcliffe College, the woman's annex of Harvard University. Mrs. Savage from childhood has been a great lover of horses so much so that her admiration led her to ride the cow ponies on her father's ranch. Thus she became a splendid horsewoman. She is also an expert with a big game rifle, and one summer it was her fortune to kill eight bear. Four children have been given to this worthy couple to bless their for- tunate union. The eldest is Harold Alonzo, Jr.; then comes Joseph Town- send, and the third in the order of birth is Andrew Jackson ; while the young- est is Alvin Palmer. The name of the third child Andrew Jackson is ac- counted for by the interesting historical fact that Mrs. Savage's grandfather, Andrew Chambers, was born in Andrew Jackson's house, and her great- grandfather. Captain Chambers, led the first immigrant trains into the great northwest in a prairie schooner now in the Portland Museum, and on exhibi- tion at the A. Y. P. E. Exposition at Seattle. He was an Indian fighter of renown. Mr. and Mrs. Savage are members of the Christian Church at Fresno, where he was superintendent of the Sunday School for two years ; he is a Knights Templar Mason, holding membership in Fresno lodges.