James Savage: From Georgia to Plattsburgh and Chicago

James Savage was born on October 26, 1886, in Jones County, Georgia, to Alex and Angeline Savage. He married Mary around 1907, and by 1920, they were working as domestic servants in Greenwich, New York. By 1925, James and Mary had moved to Plattsburgh, where he worked as a chauffeur in the pulp and paper industry. Their household included nephew Thomas Burney. In 1930, James worked as a coal shoveler at a paper mill and lived on Weed Street. By 1942, he had relocated to Chicago, where he worked on a Works Progress Administration project. James died on January 20, 1950, in Cook County, Illinois.