Year: 1925
Type: article
Abstract: NECROLOGYJohn Hall Sage died in Boston on August 16, 1925, having passed his seventy-eighth birthday.Mr. Sage was one of the five founders of the Wilson Ornithological Club, and maintained his membership to the day of his death.He was the first of the five to decease.He was born at Portland, Connecticut, on April 20, 1847, the son of Charles Henry and Eliza Hall Sage.His principal career was in the field of business, in which he occupied numerous high and trusted positions.His services to American ornithology, as an officer in the American Ornithologists' Union and as co-author of the ''Birds of Connecticut", are well-known.The writer did not enjoy a personal acquaintance with Mr. Sage but saw him at two of the A. 0. Eh meetings.On such occasions a stranger was impressed with the kindness and benevolent good-will which radiated from his countenance and unassuming manner.Scientific men, and professional ornithologists in particular, are apt to have a cold, uncompromising, and overbearing attitude in scientific matters, which becomes so fixed and stereotyped a part of the nature that it dominates also in human relations.Mr. Sage was free from this, perhaps because he wms an amateur, and lacked the assurance of professionalism.Personality is a tremendous factor in human relations.Ordinarily we do not pause to evaluate it in human life; but after death it stands out in bold relief.Fortunate, then, is the man of whom it can be said that he was good and kind.Such is a stranger's estimate of John H. Sage.The other four founders of the W. O. C. are Frank L. Burns, Dr. Fynds Jones, Dr. F. Otley Pindar, and Dr.
Author: T. C. Stephens
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2736749567