{"id":597,"date":"2026-01-23T20:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:13","slug":"madera-remembered-jim-savage-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-remembered-jim-savage-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera remembered Jim Savage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"597\" class=\"elementor elementor-597\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-117de0f0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"117de0f0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10bbcbe9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10bbcbe9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As difficult as it may be for the 21st century mind to grasp, there once was a time when Major James Savage was thought to be a hero in Madera. In fact, on April 23, 1951, more than 100 local folks held a California Centennial program at his grave, which was then located on land that is now covered by Hensley Lake. Guy Crow presided over the gathering, which featured Walter Chandler, Madera County District Attorney, as the guest speaker. Chandler was considered an expert on Savage and gave his audience an inside look at Madera County\u2019s original mountain man.<\/p><p>Jim Savage, who was named after his paternal grandfather, was born in 1823 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He grew up in <u>Illinois.<\/u> <a href=\"http:\/\/Illinois.In\"><u>In<\/u><\/a> 1928, a Mrs. Seton Porter \u2014 98 years old at the time \u2014 wrote that \u201cJim was smart as a whip, shrewd, apt in picking up languages, such as German and French \u2014 for both were spoken where he was living.\u201d<\/p><p>She said, \u201cJim Savage was vigorous and strong, had blue eyes and a magnificent physique, loved all kinds of sports engaged in his day, was tactful, likable, and interesting\u2026 Sometimes Jim would come to church, but, oh, he was such a wag of a youth. More often than not, he would remain outside, and when he knew time had come for prayer, he\u2019d flick the knees of his horse and make him kneel too and then wink at us inside. We couldn\u2019t laugh of course, but we always watched for this trick of Jim\u2019s. He got such a lot of fun out of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As difficult as it may be for the 21st century mind to grasp, there once was a time when Major James Savage was thought to be a hero in Madera. In fact, on April 23, 1951, more than 100 local folks held a California Centennial program at his grave, which was then located on land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,32],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-community","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44234,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/44234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}