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Thomas S. Savage
Thomas Staughton Savage (June 7, 1804 in Cromwell, Connecticut – December 27, 1880 in Rhinebeck, New York) was an American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist.
He attended Yale College and Yale Medical School. First marriage to Susan A. Metcalfe September 28, 1838, he married his second wife, Maria Chapin in 1842, it was after her death that he married Elizabeth Rutherford granddaughter of the author Eliza Fenwick in 1844. He was the father of five children, Elizabeth Fenwick Savage (b. 1846), Alexander Duncan Savage (b. 1848), Thomas Rutherford Savage (b. 1852), William Rutherford Savage (b. 1854), Jesse Duncan Savage (b. 1858). He was the grandfather of the American artist Thomas Casilear Cole (1888-1976).
In 1836 Savage was sent as a missionary to Liberia. During his time in Africa he acquired the skull and other bones from an unknown ape species, which he described in 1847 at the Boston Society of Natural History with American naturalist and anatomist Jeffries Wyman〔Savage TS. (1847). (Communication describing the external character and habits of a new species of Troglodytes (T. gorilla) ). Boston Soc Nat Hist: 245–247.〕〔Savage TS, Wyman J. (1847). (Notice of the external characters and habits of Troglodytes gorilla, a new species of orang from the Gaboon River, osteology of the same ). Boston J Nat Hist 5:417–443.〕 with the scientific name ''Troglodytes gorilla'', now known as the Western Gorilla.〔Conniff R. Discovering gorilla. Evolutionary Anthropology, 18: 55-61. 〕
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