The Friends of Oakwood Cemetery will offer a lecture on Russell Sage, known as the “money king,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8 at the Gardner Earl Chapel at the Oakwood Avenue entrance to Oakwood Cemetery.
Please register by calling (518) 328-0090 and pay upon arrival, $15 per person. (This program originally was scheduled for Aug. 6.)
Michael Barrett will present the intriguing details of the life of Russell Sage. A quintessential Robber Baron of the Gilded Age, Sage was most likely the wealthiest man in America at the time of his death in 1906. His wife’s reaction to his passing is one of the greatest stories of philanthropic retaliation in American history. Light refreshments will follow.
The progarm is presented by the Friends of Oakwood, a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer group working to support the preservation and maintenance of the non-sectarian chapel and grounds of Troy’s still-active historic 19th century Oakwood Cemetery.
Published: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:20:43 +0000 by d.gardner