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SAVAGE, George Martin<\/strong>, minister of the gospel and teacher; born Tishomingo Co., Miss., Feb. 5, 1849; son of Hamilton Giles and Eleanor Jane (Shields) SAVAGE<\/strong>; English-Irish and Scotch descent; father\u2019s occupation, minister of the gospel and farmer; paternal grandparents Martin and Elizabeth (Hudspath) SAVAGE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents George and Mary (McElhanan) SHIELDS<\/strong>; educated Ripley Star Institute, Henderson Masonic Institute and Union University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., graduated from the latter with degree of A. B. 1871, A. M. 1874, and LL. D. in 1890; in early life was a farmer; married Fannie Forrester WILLIAMS<\/strong> July 26, 1871; member Masons, Woodmen of the World and Conversation Club, Jackson, Tenn.; Democrat; member of the Baptist church; has been in the ministry since June, 1871; was Principal of Henderson Masonic Male and Female Institute 1871-7 and 1880-4; professor of English and French Southwestern Baptist University 1877-1880; Principal of Eagleville (Tenn.) High school 1884-1890; President of Southwestern Baptist University 1890-1904; professor of philosophy 1904-5; again president 1906-7; traveled in Greece and Bible lands 1905-6; professor of philosophy 1907-8; professor Hebrew, Greek and French, Hall-Moody Institute, 1908-9; again professor of philosophy in Southwestern Baptist University, now Union University, 1909.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Jackson SAVAGE, George Martin, minister of the gospel and teacher; born Tishomingo Co., Miss., Feb. 5, 1849; son of Hamilton Giles and Eleanor Jane (Shields) SAVAGE; English-Irish and Scotch descent; father\u2019s occupation, minister of the gospel and farmer; paternal grandparents Martin and Elizabeth (Hudspath) SAVAGE, maternal grandparents George and Mary (McElhanan) SHIELDS; educated Ripley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,36,45,346,88,410,4419],"tags":[2089,2090,292,1021,38],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hall-moody-institute","category-madison","category-rutherford","category-southwestern-baptist-university","category-surname-s","category-union-university","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-hudspath","tag-mcelhanan","tag-savage","tag-shields","tag-williams","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15888,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/15888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}