Thomas W. Saeger, the subject of this sketch, was born in Allentown, Pa., November 30, 1843. He received his earlier education in the public schools of his native city and the Allentown Academy, and was graduated in 1863, from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., where he heard President Lincoln deliver the speech that has since become a classic in English literature. Upon graduation he accepted a postition in the Allentown Rolling Mills, but later went to Duluth, Minn., where for several years he had charge of a grain elevator. Upon his return to Allentown for a number of years he engaged in the milling business.
On January 26, 1875, he married Florence Troxell of Allentown, Pa. He died November 19, 1913. Mr. Saeger had travelled extensively in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land and was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church of Allentown, the Livingston Club, the Lehigh Country Club, the Lehigh County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania-German Society and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Thomas W. Saeger was a Christian gentleman, cultured and refined, fond of literature, art and music. As a business man, he was keen and energetic, the very soul of honor; as a citizen, he was interested in all that made for the progress and the uplift of the community. He was, moreover, a man of deeply religious nature, well acquainted with the doctrines of the Lutheran Church, which he several times represented at the meetings of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the General Council of North America. In politics he was a Republican, but reserved the right to think for himself. For many years he was a very useful and enthusiastic member of the board of trustees of Muhlenberg College.
Mr. Saeger was elected to membership in the Pennsylvania-German Society January 15, 1897.

Source: Proceedings and Addresses, Volume 24, By Pennsylvania-German Society, publ 1916, pg 52-53