page_title: Henry W. Sage
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Henry W. Sage / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sage Library — in Bay City, Michigan. Gothic revival architecture - on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: Henry Williams Sage was a wealthy New York State businessman, philanthropist, and early benefactor and trustee of Cornell University.
context_section_description: On September 1, 1840, Sage was married to Susan Elizabeth Linn, the daughter of William Linn and granddaughter of Rev. William Linn who served as the first Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1789. Together, they were the parents of:
  Dean Sage (1841–1902), who endowed the Sage Lecture, a sermon series at Sage Chapel.
  William Henry Sage (1844–1924), who graduated from Yale University in 1865 and would later fund the construction of Yale's Sage Hall, named for William's son DeWitt Linn Sage, in 1923. Himself later a Cornell trustee, William Sage also funded the construction of Percy Field, Cornell's original football field, as well as the stone arch bridge over Cascadilla Gorge.
  His wife was killed in 1885 when she was thrown from her carriage in Ithaca.  Sage died in Ithaca, New York on September 18, 1897.
caption: The Sage Library in Bay City, Michigan
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