Thomas S. Savage

Thomas Staughton Savage (June 7, 1804 in Cromwell, Connecticut – December 27, 1880 in Rhinebeck, New York) was an American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician, and naturalist.

It was after her death that he married Elizabeth Rutherford, granddaughter of the author Eliza Fenwick, in 1844.

He was the grandfather of the American artist Thomas Casilear Cole (1888-1976).

Savage was ordained deacon in July 1836 and priest in October the same year.

[2] During his time in Africa he acquired the skull and bones from an unknown ape species, which he described in 1847 at the Boston Society of Natural History[3] with American naturalist and anatomist Jeffries Wyman[4][5] with the scientific name Troglodytes gorilla, now known as the western gorilla.