Yes, C.H. Savidge is Charles Henry Savidge, my grandfather's grandfather. He was born in New Jersey, in Upper Freehold to Samuel Savidge and Sarah Leigh. Sarah's father, Daniel Leigh was in the Revolution and left his harness making shop to Samuel, who had been his apprentice and became his son-in-law. Daniel Leigh, wife and all the remaining children except Sarah (since she was married to Samuel) emigrated to Ohio. The researcher I hired in New Jersey suspects he may have gotten land as partial payment for his services in the Revolution. Charles was born in New Jersey and younger brother Daniel Leigh Savidge stayed there and took over the harness making shop. Charles, however, wandered as an older teen/young twenty-something to Philadelphia and there, learned carpentry before wandering to Ohio where he married and then wandered to Minnesota. I'm looking hard at a Foster W. Savidge in Philadelphia, a carpenter who is a boarder (in 1880) with another, unrelated carpenter's home/family. Charles was born in 1823 and was married 1845 in Ohio so would have been in Philly around 1840-44ish and probably had a family member or someone to learn the carpentry trade from. There's all sorts of Savidges in Ohio in the 1850 census including a Foster who was born in New Jersey (might have been the father of the Foster in Philadelphia in 1880) and our Archibald can be found too, 12 at the time. They're all cousins or something but darned if I can figure it all out :-) I was dreaming about it last night.

Archibald died in the Civil War, down in Tennesee :-(