M. S. Sager
M. S. Sager, wholesale and retail tinware, Washington, was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, December 25, 1831, and is a son of Charles and Jane (Smith) Sager. His father was a Dane and his mother a Yirginian. His father came to this county when he was but sixteen years of age, and his mother many years ago. They had a family of seven children.
Mr. Sager, the subject of our sketch, was married, in 1859, to Miss Ellen McMaster, daughter of John O. and Mary McMaster, of this county. They have two children living: Henry P. and Adolphus W., and Emma, who died some seventeen years ago.
Our subject is a self-made man, never having the advantages of an education; but from his untiring energy, he has become master of his business, and at one time had amassed a fortune; but by his good nature was induced to go on paper until it swept nearly all he had. He has now some fifteen thousand dollars worth of machinery lying idle for the want of means, and which if put in motion would soon regain his lost fortune. He is a man of too much energy to lie still, and with half a chance he will come out all right.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County