Olivia (Slocum) Sage (1828-1918)

Mrs Margaret "Olivia" (Slocum) Sage, Founder of the Russell Sage Foundation etc.

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Family
Notes / Biography Associated Houses References
In 1918, she came in at eighteenth on the first ever Forbes Rich List with an estimated fortune of $60-million, tied with Cyrus McCormick Jr., Joseph Widener, Arthur Curtiss James and Nicholas Brady.

Parents

Joseph Slocum

Merchant, of Syracuse and a Member of the New York Assembly

1800-1863

Margaret (Jermain) Slocum

Mrs Margaret Pierson (Jermain) Slocum

b.1804

Spouse

Russell Sage

Financier & President of the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee Railroad etc.

1816-1906

Categories

Gilded Age Patrons of the Arts Philanthropists Remarkable Women