Thomas S. Savage
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Thomas Staughton Savage was an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 and naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

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Born June 7, 1804 in Cromwell, Connecticut, died December 27, 1880 in Rinebeck, New York. 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
Eliza Fenwick
Eliza Fenwick was an English author whose works include, Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock , as well as several children's books....

 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
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

. 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
Boston Society of Natural History
The Boston Society of Natural History in Boston, Massachusetts, was an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of natural history. It published a scholarly journal and established a museum. In its first few decades, the society occupied several successive locations in Boston's Financial...

 with American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

  naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 and anatomist Jeffries Wyman
Jeffries Wyman
Jeffries Wyman was an American naturalist and anatomist, born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Wyman died in Bethlehem, New Hampshire of a pulmonary hemorrhage.-Career:...

 with the scientific name Troglodytes gorilla, now known as the Western Gorilla
Western Gorilla
The western gorilla is a great ape and the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.-Taxonomy:Nearly all of the individuals of this taxon belong to the western lowland gorilla subspecies whose population is approximately 95,000 individuals...

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