Rev. William Savage was a married man, but with a not very large family, and having a most Christian lady for a wife. He was, the son of an English Wesleyan minister, said to be a great revivalist, from who his sons imbibed their zeal and push.

William had quite as good opportunities for education as his brother, and had been brought up to the liberal profession of medicine. He was a long-practised local preacher, and he threw himself into the work with the efficiency of an experienced itinerant.

New appointments, new classes, conversions and revivals, and church building were the order of the day in 1885 in the Belmont Circuit, as they have been in every subsequent circuit: joined to these, he espoused and promoted the temperence cause in all its aspects.

The next year 1856, he was received on trial.

...from the minutes of the 1855 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.