Background
Savage, Minot Judson was born on June 10, 1841 in Norridgewock, Maine, United States. Son of Joseph L. and Ann S. (Stinson) Savage.
Savage, Minot Judson was born on June 10, 1841 in Norridgewock, Maine, United States. Son of Joseph L. and Ann S. (Stinson) Savage.
He graduated from the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1864, and for nine years was in the Congregational ministry, being a home missionary at San Mateo and Grass Valley, California, until 1867.
He held pastorates at Framingham, Massachusetts from 1867 to 1869, and at Hannibal, Missouri from 1869 to 1873. He was an active advocate of Darwinian evolutionistic optimism and social reform, and he also preached a spiritualistic faith in personal survival after death. (1902), Life"s Dark Problems (1905), Immortality (1906), and, in addition to other volumes in verse, America to England (1905).
He was a director of the American Unitarian Association, and served on several councils and conferences.
In 1896 he was granted an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Harvard University in 1896.
Married Ella A. Dodge, 1864 (died 1916).