Background
Savage, Giles Christopher was born on January 15, 1854 in near Rienzi, Mississippi, United States. Son of Review Hamilton Giles and Elenor Jane (Shields) Savage.
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Giles Christopher Savage
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Educational public schools in Mississippi, and Masonic Institute, Henderson, Tennessee. Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1878. Post-graduate work same, 1880-1881, London and Vienna, 1884-1885.
Doctor of Laws, Union, 1919.
Career
Practiced in Jackson, Tennessee, 1878-1886, Nashville, since 1886. Professor ophthalmology, Vanderbilt University Medical Department, Nashville, 1886-1911. Retired from teaching, 1911, to give entire time to private practice and to writing.
Achievements
Membership
Member South.S. Board of Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist State Missionary Board, Tennessee Anti-Saloon League, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.
Connections
Married Leslie Alice Jones, October 4, 1881.
