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About Dean Sage
Dean Sage
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134680468/dean-sage
Dean Sage was a noted businessman, philanthropist, investor, a major figure in the establishment of Cornell University, and a respected collector and author on the subject of sport fishing. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote in praise of the elder Dean Sage's sense of citizenship as well as his sense of humor, and depended on his hospitality and business acumen. (Cornell University was founded in 1865).
Sage endowed the Sage Lecture, a sermon series at Sage Chapel.
Camp Harmony is located on an elevated point at the junction of the Restigouche and the Upsalquitch Rivers. Dean Sage named the site Harmony after Julia Harmony Twichell, the wife of his good friend and fishing companion, Rev. Joseph Twichell, a clergyman from Hartford, Connecticut. Sage built the first camp on the Harmony site in 1879, it was a three-room building with birch-bark partitions between the walls. While hardly luxurious, it was a major improvement over living in tents. In 1888, Sage published "The Restigouche and its Salmon Fishing", a fly-fishing classic that further spread the fame of the river system. Dean Sage, William Henry Sage, Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne, William Collins Whitney and Charles Lawrence, decided to rebuild an improved Camp Harmony in 1895-1896. Stanford White designed the new Camp as a sprawling log building with a very large octagonal living room-dining room surmounted by a peaked roof. This became the central point from which the two bedroom wings radiated, one overlooking the Restigouche River, the other the Upsalquitch. The whole being surrounded by a comfortable porch affording magnificent views up and down both rivers. All of the golden oak furniture was shipped to Matapedia and hauled up river by scow. Except for the addition of electric light and more comfortable easy chairs and sofas, as well as bathrooms, the Camp remains exactly as it was in 1896 and a concerted effort has been made to keep it so.
http://www.campharmony.ca/history.html
New York Times Obituary June 28, 1902
Dean Sage as a Collector.
The death of Dean Sage of Albany, which occurred this week at his hunting lodge in Canada, removes from the field of American book collecting one of its most prominent members. A member of the wellknown lumber firm of H.W. Sage Company of Albany, Mr. Sage was equally well known as a bibliophile and an angler. His collection contained many notable rarities, particularly in the departments of angling literature and of nineteenth century first editions. A catalogue of his library was privately issued several years ago.
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Dean Sage's Timeline
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June 6, 1841
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Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, United States
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| 1868 |
May 18, 1868
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Albany County, New York, United States
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October 1, 1868
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New York
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| 1874 |
June 8, 1874
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Menands, Albany County, New York, United States
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| 1876 |
December 13, 1876
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Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
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| 1878 |
March 27, 1878
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Menands, Albany County, New York, United States
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| 1902 |
June 23, 1902
Age 61
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Camp Harmony, Ristigouche, New Brunswick, Canada
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Albany Rural Cemetery, 3 Cemetery Avenue, Albany, Albany County, New York, 12204, United States
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