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SAGE, Gardner Avery, donor, born in New York city, 3 May, 1813; died in White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, 22 August, 1882. He studied surveying, practised his profession in New York city, and acquired a fortune. He was an active member of the Reformed Dutch church, in which he held many offices of trust, and built and endowed the library of the theological seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, which bears his name, and which he presented to the general synod. This was dedicated on 4 June, 1875, and now (1888)contains 70,000 volumes. He also founded a chair of Old Testament exegesis in the seminary, gave a resi-deuce for one of the professors, also large sums for the maintenance of Hertzog Hall, and made other bequests to aid the institutions of the Reformed church in New Brunswick. His gifts amounted to nearly 8250,000.
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