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John was born in Dublin, Ireland on December 13, 1828.
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John was born in Dublin, Ireland on December 13, 1828.
In Dublin John attended the art school of the Royal Dublin Society, winning the silver medal of the society in 1847.
Savage became infatuated with the "Young Ireland" movement and, when the government closed the art school of the Royal Dublin Society because of student agitation, he became active in plotting against the authorities. In April 1848 he and J. De C. Young issued an inflammatory publication, the Patriot, which was promptly suppressed. Two months later he promoted the Irish Tribune, issued by the "Students' Club" to further the old views of Mitchel toward Irish independence.
Late in July he fled from Dublin, assisted in the abortive insurrection of September, and then sought refuge in the United States. He arrived in New York City on November 7, 1848. There he met William Erigena Robinson, who presented him to Horace Greeley; within a week Savage was installed as a proofreader on the New York Tribune.
Beginning in January 1854 he was the literary editor of the Citizen, a newspaper founded by John Mitchel, which continued publication for one year. He published in 1856 his '98 and '48: the Modern Revolutionary History and Literature of Ireland.
In 1857 he went to Washington and there became the leading editorial writer on the States, the organ of Stephen A. Douglas. In Washington he wrote a mediocre tragedy, Sybil, produced in various cities in 1858 and published in 1865.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was urged to remove the States, of which he had become part owner, into one of the southern states. He refused and is said to have joined the 69th Regiment under General Corcoran and to have served with it throughout the war.
His most important contribution to the Union cause, however, was a number of tuneful verses designed to inspirit the northern forces. The most successful of these, "The Starry Flag" (later published in a collection of verse by Savage entitled Faith and Fancy, 1864), was written on board the United States transport Marion during May 1861 as she sailed up the Potomac through the masked batteries of the enemy.
In the spring of 1864 he visited Cuba and in June of that year accepted a position as leading editorial writer on the New Orleans Times, remaining until March 1867. It was then that the news of the Fenian movement reached America. Savage's old revolutionary enthusiasm flared up; he offered his services to the cause and came to New York City, where he wrote and lectured on behalf of the Irish.
In 1868 he wrote Fenian Heroes and Martyrs, which had been preceded by Poems (1867). In 1869 he was proposed by President Johnson as United States consul at Leeds, but a Senate committee reported adversely and the matter was tabled. In his declining years he was popular as a lecturer before Catholic colleges and fraternal organizations. Several years before his death he moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
It was at his summer home at Laurelside, near Spragueville, Pennsylvania, that he died in 1888.
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Savage was a member of both the Young Irelanders and the Fenians.
Savage married Louise Gouverneur, a daughter of Captain Samuel Chester Reid in August 1854. He had an adopted daughter.