When Robert Morton Savage was born in 1864, in Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, his father, William Savage, was 38 and his mother, Drusilla Sullivan, was 37. He married Ella Maude Rowe on 27 November 1884, in Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1950, in Port Byron, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86.
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The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
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English: of Norman origin, a nickname for a wild or uncouth person, from Middle English and Old French salvage, sauvage ‘wild, untamed’ (from Late Latin salvaticus, literally ‘man of the woods’, a derivative of Latin silva ‘wood’ influenced by Latin salvus ‘whole’, i.e. natural). Compare French Sauvage .
Irish (Down): generally of English origin (it was taken to County Down in the 12th century), this name has also sometimes been adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Sabháin, the name of a small south Munster sept, which was earlier Anglicized as O'Savin (see Savin ).
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Savich and of Serbian Savić (see Savic ).
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