Savage, Isaac O., writer, was born in Cayuga, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of that place and finished the academic course at Moravia in 1849, moving in that year to Fairfield, Lenawee county, Mich., where he was in school work until 1862. He was elected school inspector in 1854, and reëlected to the same office in 1856; held various city offices; and in 1855 married Miss Chloe Baker of Fairfield, Mich. In 1862 he enlisted in the Eighteenth Michigan infantry and was promoted to second lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. He removed to Republic county, Kan., in 1870; was county treasurer for four years; was a member of the Kansas commission to the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia; was a member of the state board of agriculture; was elected to the state senate in 1876, and after that held numerous city, township and county offices. He is the author of a History of Republic county.