19 Facts About Jim Savage

James D Savage was born in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1823, soon after moving to Jacksonville of Morgan County, Illinois, to Peter Savage and Doritha Shaunce and was named after his paternal grandfather.

In 1836, Jim Savage's father relocated the family to Princeton, Illinois and remarried.

In 1840s, Jim Savage moved to Cayuga County, New York, where he married Eliza Hall in 1845.

Jim Savage had arrived too late to take part in the Bear Flag Rebellion, but he did participate in the Battalion's march from Monterey to San Luis Obispo which took place between November 17 and December 14,1846.

Jim Savage preferred to be addressed by his honorific and commanded Natives under his control to mine for gold.

In doing so, Jim Savage ultimately ended up gambling away his gold, in addition to money designated for the purchase of supplies.

Jim Savage, indeed, has told you many interesting things, but he didn't tell you how he gambled away our gold, and how he struck and knocked me down.

Jim Savage is ready to help white gold-diggers to drive the Indians from their country.

Jim Savage will help the white gold-diggers to drive the Indians from their country.

Understanding that the Indians' disappearance was a portent of something more serious, Jim Savage mobilized a small force of 16 men to pursue the Indians before they could coalesce with any larger group of Indians that were potentially waiting nearby.

The Kaweah chief, who had once been friendly with Jim Savage, informed him that they had only recently returned from an attack on Jim Savage's Fresno River trading post and had killed the clerks and plundered the supplies.

Jim Savage pleaded with them to cease their attacks but it was to no avail.

Jim Savage bolstered the numbers of his group to thirty five men and immediately set out to investigate.

On March 25,1851, Jim Savage marched at the head of a company of the Mariposa Battalion which included a Doctor Lafayette Bunnell, who later wrote about the expedition in Hutching's California Magazine in 1859.

In pursuit of the outlaw Awahnechee people, Jim Savage's battalion came upon a U-shaped glacial valley, inadvertently becoming the first alleged non-indigenous discoverers of Yosemite Valley.

Jim Savage is a blasphemous fellow who has five squaws for wives for which he takes his authority from the Scriptures.

Jim Savage returned to his work as a trader, establishing posts at the new reservations.

Jim Savage publicly denounced the action to pacify the tribes, and called upon the United States Indian Commissioners to conduct an inquiry.

Jim Savage struck Harvey on the chin, and Harvey pulled a pistol and killed Jim Savage with four shots.