Byl otcem pěti dětí, Elizabeth Fenwick Savage (* 1846), Alexander Duncan Savage (* 1848), Thomas Rutherford Savage (* 1852), William Rutherford Savage (* 1854), Jesse Duncan Savage (* 1858).
Savage was born in Middletown, Connecticut to ship owner Josiah Savage and Mary Roberts. The family consisted of wealthy Congregationalists and he went to Yale College and Yale Medical School, receiving an MD in 1833.
Thomas StaughtonSavage (June 7, 1804 in Cromwell, Connecticut – December 27, 1880 in Rhinebeck, New York), U.S. naturalist (zoology), physician, missionary, and Protestant clergyman.
Savage, Thomas Staughton (June 7, 1804-Dec 29 1880). The first medical missionary sent out by the Episcopal Church. He was born in Middletown (near Cromwell), Connecticut, and graduated from Yale in 1825.
Gorily se dělí na dva druhy a čtyři poddruhy (podle některých biologů pět poddruhů). DNA gorily je z 98 až 99 % shodná s DNA člověka [1 ] a po šimpanzích jsou gorily nejbližší příbuzní člověka.