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| | Russell Sage - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | RUSSELL SAGE (1816-1906), American financier, was born in Verona township, Oneida (disambiguation)Oneida county, New York, on the 4th of August 1816. |
 | | He worked as a farm-hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R. Sage, in Troy, New York. |
 | | On the 4th of December 1891 an attempt was made to assassinate him in his office by one Henry Norcross, who demanded a large sum of money, and upon being refused exploded a dynamite bomb, and was himself killed.' Sage died in New York on the 22nd of July 1906. |
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