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Sage (MARGARET OLIVIA SLO- CUM Mrs)

MARGARET OLIVIA SLO- CUM (Mrs. Russell Sage), an American in 1828. She was a graduate of the SAGE (q. v.), who was then a prospering philanthropist, born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1828. She was a graduate of the last five years of her husband's life transacted all his business affairs. At his death she had at her disposal $70,000,000, of which $30,000,000 were devoted to a long series of philanthropies. She died in out all her life keenly sympathetic toward 1918. equal suffrage for women. She was also a keen business woman, and during the acted all his business affairs. At his death Oneida co., New York, in 1816. He had very early age entered his brother's groonly a country school education and at a into the wholesale business. From 1841 ually prospered, until he was able to go

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