Augustus Chase Savage

)[2] His parents built a farmhouse on the site now occupied by the Asticou Inn in his hometown of Northeast Harbor, Maine.

The farmhouse was moved a short distance away, across Peabody Drive, when construction of the inn began.

)[5] The original Asticou Inn building was destroyed by a fire sixteen years after opening.

In 1904, Savage created the family's Forest Hill Cemetery, on the other side of the Asticou Azalea Garden from the inn.

[8] Savage married Emily Manchester (1834–1914), and they lived in Harbor Cottage, part of the Asticou Inn's buildings today.