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Savage was born on July 13, 1784 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, one of the eleven children of Habijah and Elizabeth (Tudor) Savage. His father was a merchant descended from Thomas Savage who emigrated from England to Boston about 1635.
Savage was educated at Derby Academy at Hingham, Massachussets, Washington Academy at Machias, Me. , and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1803.
Later he studied law in the offices of Isaac Parker and others.
Savage was admitted to the bar in 1807. He prepared for the press and compiled an index for the Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, published by the state in 1814.
In 1816, when the third volume of John Winthrop's history of New England was found in manuscript, he was entrusted by the Massachusetts Historical Society with the duty of copying and annotating it. He decided to edit the whole work instead of the new volume only, and his edition, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, appeared in two volumes in 1825-26. Another, with additions and corrections, was issued by him in 1853. This was an important piece of antiquarian scholarship, and he did much other miscellaneous writing and editing, for he was very industrious.
His work Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came before May, 1692 was published in four volumes between 1860 and 1862.
He happened to see a plan of a London savings bank, and he at once took up the project of providing something similar for Boston. In the result, in 1816 the Massachusetts legislature incorporated the Provident Institution for Savings, one of the first savings banks incorporated in the United States and perhaps the first in the world was established.
In 1818 he was active in contending that the law made mandatory the provision of elementary schools, and, when a town meeting adopted his view in spite of opposition, he served six years on the body charged with the duty of putting the new schools in operation.
From 1811 to 1862 he held a great variety of offices imposing responsibility and labor. He was several times elected to the lower house and to the Senate of the Massachusetts legislature, in addition to service in the Executive Council and as delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1820. He also served in the common council, board of aldermen, and school committee of Boston.
He was one of the founders of the Boston Athenaeum, was long active in the Massachusetts Historical Society, and was connected with many other organizations or institutions of a public or semi-public character.
Savage died in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Savage was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society for more than 60 years.
His energy and persistence always overcame apathy and opposition.
In April 1823 Savage married Elizabeth Otis (Stillman) Lincoln, the widow of James Otis Lincoln of Hingham, Massachussets, and the daughter of George Stillman, of Machias, Me. They had one son and three daughters. In 1849, Savage's daughter, Emma, married William Barton Rogers, who later founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the help of the Savage family.
