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(IX) Susan Maria Wyman, daughter of Abner Palmer Wyman (8), was born January 13, 1840; died September 20, 1892; married September 29, 1863, Elisha Nye Peirce, of Medford, who died October 30, 1904. Chil- dren: I. Mabel Peirce, born November 24, 1864; died July 19, 1865. 2. Edith Peirce, born February 14, 1866; married September 25, 1905, George A. Bishop of Hamilton, Ber- muda Islands ; no issue. 3. Elisha Allen Peirce, born May 18, 1869; married, June 15, 1899, Margaret Wendell Phillips ; children : i. Allan Wyman Peirce, born March 25, 1900; ii. Margaretta Peirce, born January 1I, 1902 ; iii. Miriam Edith Peirce, born September 12, 1903: iv. John Phillips Peirce, born Septem- ber 26, 1905. 4. Susan Murdock, born Sep- tember 26, 1870, died December 31, 1870. 5. Herbert Wyman Peirce, born January 20, 1872: married October 28. 1903, Violet Au- gusta Hall of Belmont; children: i. Elisha Nye Peirce, born June 28, 1904: ii. Byron Hall Peirce, born October 3, 1906.
(IX) Franklin Wyman, son of Abner Pal- mer Wyman (8), was born in Arlington March 3, 1849. He received his education in
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the public and high schools of his native town and at Comer's Commercial College, Boston, where he studied bookkeeping. He worked at home on his father's farm when not in school until he was nineteen years old. He worked for a year or more as bookkeeper for John P. Squire in his stall at Faneuil Hall market, Bos- ton, then was admitted to partnership in his father's business. His brother William also became a partner, and another brother, Daniel Wyman, was admitted later, the firm name be- coming Abner P. Wyman & Sons. William withdrew from the firm, however, and re- moved to the west after having been a partner for four years. When their father died, No- vember 2, 1884, Franklin William and Daniel Wyman were appointed administrators and trustees of the estate. At the end of two years they purchased the interests of the other heirs and continued the business under the firm name of Wyman Brothers, as at present. Franklin Wyman was the selling agent until recently, and his son Charles F. Wyman suc- ceeded him in that responsible position.
Franklin Wyman is a member of the First Baptist Church of Arlington, and for many years has been on its standing committee, of which for eight years he has been chairman. He is also one of the trustees of the church. In politics he is a Republican, and has often served his party as delegate to nominating conventions. He was formerly a member of the school committee of Arlington. He is well known in Masonic circles, a member of Hiram Lodge; of Menotomy Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of Somerville Council, Royal and Se- lect Masters ; of De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar ; of Boston Consistory, thir- ty-second degree, Scottish Rite Masonry. He is past noble grand of Bethel Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Arlington; and a member of Som- erville Encampment of Odd Fellows. He be- longs to the Arlington Boat Club, the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and is a director of the First National Bank of Arlington. He served for three years in Company F, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, at Medford, Massachusetts.
He married, January 8, 1874, Lucy Adelaide Wilson, born August 24, 1853, daughter of Charles William and Lucy Clark (Fillebrown) Wilson, of Waltham, Massachusetts. Her father was a contractor and carpenter. Chil- dren, born in Arlington : I. Charles Franklin, born April 12, 1875; married Mabel Eliza Kimball, of Arlington, daughter of Samuel E. and Maria Melrose (Durgin) Kimball of Air- lington ; child: Franklin Edwin, born October
3, 1906. 2. Herbert Clark, born December 17, I876. 3. Helen Adelaide, born November 22, 1878; married October 14, 1903, Roger Sherman, Jr., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 4. Arthur Palmer, born April 6, 1885.
SAWYER There is good reason to be- lieve that the three immigrants of the Sawyer family-Ed-
ward, William and Thomas-were, as tradition tells us, brothers. They were born in England, and came to America about 1642, all three settling at first in Essex county. Edward Sawyer, born in 1608, married Mary
and died 1673, leaving one son, John, who was a settler at Rowley, and perhaps Ezekiel, who was killed in King Philip's war. William Sawyer was a proprietor of Salem in 1642; removed to Wenham, and thence to Newbury ; had eleven children.
(I) Thomas Sawyer, immigrant ancestor, was a yeoman. He settled first in Rowley, but in 1643 or soon afterward he located in Lan- caster, Massachusetts. He took the oath of al- legiance 1647, and was on the list of pro- prietors of Lancaster 1648. He was one of the first six settlers and was one of the pru- dential managers of the town in 1647. In 1654 he was admitted a freeman. His house was on the east side of what is now the Main street at South Lancaster, and next south of the home of his father-in-law, John Prescott. He was one of the leading men of the town all his life. There were only five fullfledged freemen in Lancaster in 1654-Edward Breck, Richard Smith, William Kerley, John Whitcomb, and Thomas Sawyer. He was a prominent mem- ber of the church, and held many town offices. During King Philip's war he left town with all the other survivors of the massacre, but he returned and helped to build up the town anew. He married Mary, daughter of John Prescott. (See sketch). He died about 1719. His will was dated March 6, 1705-6. He bequeathed to his wife Mary ; sons Thomas, Joshua, James, Caleb, and Nathaniel; and daughter Mary Wilder. The latter testified that she had her father and mother during eight or nine months, while her brother Thomas was in captivity. Her name and that of her mother was spelled generally Marie, not Mary. Children: I. Thomas (q. v.) born July 2, 1649. 2. Eph- raim, born January 16, 1650-I ; killed February IO, 1676. 3. Marie, born January 4, 1652-3. 4. Joshua, born March 13, 1655. 5. James, born March 22. 1657; mentioned below. 6. Caleb, born April 20, 1659 ; settled in Harvard,
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Massachusetts. 7. John, born April, 1661. 8. Elizabeth, baptized January 5, 1663. 9. Han- nah. 10. Nathaniel, born November, 1670.
(II) James Sawyer, son of Thomas Saw- yer (I), was born in Lancaster, March 22, 1657, removed to Pomfret, Connecticut, where he bought in 1709 a mill privilege on a small brook running into the Quinebaug, known as Bark Meadow brook, and built thereon the first grist mill in the settlement of Pomfret. In 1710 a military corps was organized, and though he was about fifty-three years old he was elected cornet of the company, a distinction implying previous service. After that he was called Cornet in the public records. The com- pany consisted of fifty men of all ages from sixteen to sixty, under Captain John Sabin. Cornet Sawyer was a selectman in 1714, and was elected February 16, 1714, on an import- ant committee to locate the meeting house at White's Plain, in Pomfret. He married, Feb- ruary 4, 1678, Mary Marble, probably of the Stow family. She died at Pomfret in 1708, leaving four children. He married second, Mary Prescott, of Pomfret, and had seven children. He is given as a resident of Pomfret in 1731. Children: I. James, Jr., resident of Pomfret, in the East Purchase, in 1731. 2. Benjamin, called a "first settler" in the early Pomfret records. 3. Ephraim, had a grant in the adjacent town of Scotland in 1718. 4. Captain Joseph, born December 6, 1721 ; men- tioned below. 5. John, one of the first grantees of Reading, Vermont, in 1761, then residing in Pomfret, Connecticut.
(III) Captain Joseph Sawyer, son of Cor- net James Sawyer (2), was born in Pomfret, · Connecticut, December 6, 1721, or, according to another record, August 20, 1724. He was brought up in Pomfret. Land was granted in Vermont at what was later called Reading, to a company of Pomfret men, among whom were John, James and Joseph Sawyer, June 16, 1776. The settlement was made during the close of the Revolutionary war. Joseph had the rank of captain, and probably served in the French wars. He commanded a company from Reading, Vermont, called out August 23, 1780, and in service until November 15, 1780. Sergeant John Sawyer and Cornelius Sawyer, his sons, were in this company. He and his family came to Reading as early as 1779, per- haps some of them came earlier. Captain Sawyer was a representative to the legislature in 1783 from Reading. He married, Novem- ber 4 or 21, 1750. Hannah, daughter of Thom- as and Sarah Hutchins, of Pomfret, of a well- known Connecticut family. Children, born at
Pomfret : I. Anna, born October 5, 1751, died August 3, 1786 .. 2. Joseph, born April 14, 1753 ; died April 8, 1846; married at Read- ing, Vermont, March 18, 1781, Abigail Ken- dall : children born there. 3. John, born Sep- tember 7, 1755; died May 15, 1847; sergeant in Revolution ; married daughter of Deacon Weld; settled in Reading. 4. Cornelius, born February 6, 1760; mentioned below. 5. Ben- jamin, born February 3, 1762; mentioned be- low. 6. Mary, born August 9, 1765; died August 16, 1843. 7. Eleanor, born January 6, 1769 ; died March 28, 1813. 8. Daughter, twin of Eleanor, died young.
(IV) Cornelius Sawyer, son of Captain Jo- seph Sawyer (3), born in Pomfret, Con- necticut, February 6, 1760, died at Reading, Vermont, February 9, 1835. He was a farmer and wheelwright. He was a soldier at the age of sixteen, in Captain Daniel Lyon's com- pany of Pomfret, in 1776, in the Eighth regi- ment of militia, raised in Windham county and serving in New York. He also served in his father's company in Vermont in 1780, enlisting November 15. He removed to Vermont about 1778-9 with his father's family. He married at Reading, May 27, 1782, Allis (Alice) Robes (Robie). Children, born at Reading: I. Jo- seph, born March 24, 1785. 2. Simon, born December 25, 1786. 3. Joshua, born Septem- ber 23, 1783; mentioned below. 4. Thomas, born September 26, 1789. 5. Allis (Alice), daughter, born November 8, 1792. 6. Cor- nelius Jr., born March 27, 1796. 7. James, born December 9, 1798. 8. Thankful, born August 13, 1803.
(IV) Benjamin Sawyer, son of Captain Jo- seph Sawyer (3), was born in Pomfret, Feb- ruary 3, 1762. He removed to Reading with the family. He and his brother John were the originators of a legend of an enchanted stone in Reading. John was a builder, and when he was putting up a house for Charles Buck asked Benjamin to help him find a big flat stone for the hearth, probably. They found a stone which by splitting would serve, but left it for another that served without splitting. Soon afterward, when another such stone was need- ed for another new house, John searched for the stone and to his surprise it had disap- peared. Benjamin was sure he could find it, but he also failed in his search. Soon the stone reappeared, however, in the very spot where it had been first discovered. The superstitious explained the mystery of the stone that came and went. and the public came to believe that the stone marked hidden treasure. It was sup- posed that the ghostly guards who had to
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watch over the treasure got tired of their job occasionally and hid away the stone. At any rate, enough credence was given to the story of enchantment to cause many parties to dig for the fabled treasure, and the stories of their experiences add an interesting chapter to the town history. Benjamin Sawyer was a soldier in the Revolution, according to the Reading history. He settled and cleared a farm in Reading, now or lately owned by Charles A. Davis, and built the house on that place in 1796. He was a well-to-do farmer and prominent citizen. He was on a commit- tee to lay out the taxes of the town in 1784. He and his brother John joined the Reformed Catholic church December 12, 1796. He kept a hotel, and was succeeded in that business by his son Benjamin. He married at Reading, April 12, 1787. Sara (or Sally) York, a native of Pomfret; her mother, Anna Fling, mar- ried Captain John York, who died at sea ; married second, Shuttleworth, and went to live in England, near London. Mrs. Sawyer died April 13, 1835; Benjamin died August 12, 1843. Children, born at Reading : I. John York, born March 7, 1788; soldier in war of 1812; lieutenant in infantry; lawyer ; went west. 2. Anna, born December 4, 1789; married James Whoral Hall; she died Febru- ary 1, 1870. 3. Benjamin Jr., born May 22, 1793, partner of Erastus Preston in mill busi- ness ; had father's tavern; married Maranda Whiting, daughter of Dr. Joseph Whiting ; Benjamin died April 5, 1875. 4. Sally, born February 3, 1797; married Elijah Miles Has- kell; she died January 20, 1884. 5. Nathan, born August 22, 1799; removed to Genesee county, New York; school teacher ; lawyer at Medina ; married Lucretia Moore, of Ridge- way; became a Universalist minister of note; preaching at Monroe, Orleans and Wayne counties, New York; died August 21, 1859. 6. Hannah, born February 13, 1802; married April 12, 1825, Charles Buck; she died No- vember 28, 1887. 7. Rev. Dr. Thomas Jeffer- son, born January 9, 1804 ; died July 24, 1889; one of the leading Universalist preachers of his day; professor in Tufts College, Massachu- setts (See "Life of Dr. T. J. Sawyer," by Dr. Eddy). 8. Seth Thompson, born August 19, 1806; educated at Chester Academy, taught school at South Chester in 1827, at Wethers- field in 1828; at Reading 1829 ; went to Medea, New York, studied law ; published The Spec- tator; was prominent citizen; married, May, 1847, Sarah Jane Smiley, daughter of Rev. Robinson Smiley; he died February 9, 1895. 9. Emily or Emilia, born January 25, 1810;
married September 6, 1837, Dr. William C. Pierce.
(V) Joshua Sawyer, son of Cornelius Saw- yer (4), was born at Reading, September 23; 1783, and died there June 18, 1854. He was a farmer at Reading. He married Martha Bar- rett. Children, born there: I. Simon Forbes, born November 16, 1816, died at Sherburne, Vermont, 1907. 2. Orrin Spalding, born Jan- uary 4, 1820; mentioned below. 3. Martha I., born September 8, 1822; died February 6, 1857, unmarried.
(VI) Orrin Spalding Sawyer, son of Joshua Sawyer (5), was born at Reading, Vermont, January 4, 1820. He was a farmer during his active years. He is living in Windham, Ver- mont. He married Sophronia S. Wheelock, who was born in Cavendish, Vermont. Her parents were born near Ashby, Massachusetts, and she was a descendant of the immigrant Ralph Wheelock. (See sketch of Wheelock family in this work.) He was a farmer in Reading. Children: I. Charles E., born June 9, 1852 ; mentioned below.
(VII) Charles E. Sawyer, son of Orrin S. Sawyer (6), was born in Reading, Vermont, June 9, 1852, and was educated in the district schools of his native town, and at the Chester Academy, which he attended one term. He worked on his father's farm from an early age. When he came of age he left home and located at Melrose, Massachusetts, where he entered the employ of N. P. Jones a farmer. He was a skillful carpenter, and for three years followed his trade in Melrose. In 1883 he took his present position as shipping clerk of the firm of Cunmer, Jones & Company. He resides in Melrose; is a member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows. In politics he is in- dependent. His family is connected with the Melrose Protestant Episcopal church. He married, October 10, 1893, Grace Duncley, daughter of Nathan S. Duncley, of Charles- town, Massachusetts, now Boston. Children : I. Mildred W., born June 10, 1897. 2. Ger- aldine, born November 2, 1905.
(For first generation see preceding sketch).
(II) Thomas Sawyer, son of
SAWYER Thomas Sawyer (1), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 2, 1649, the first white child born there. His capture by the Indians forms one of the most familiar stories of the colonial period in Massachusetts. He was a man of fifty-five when the event took place, and was living in the garrison. Queen Anne's war was making
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the lives of the colonists unsafe, especially on the frontier. Indians made frequent attacks, and massacred men, women and children. On October 16, 1695, Thomas Sawyer Jr., his son Elias, and John Bigelow of Marlborough, were at work in his saw mill when they were sur- prised and captured by the Indians. The In- dians took their captives to Canada, and turned Bigelow and young Sawyer over to the French to ransom. The Indians kept the other Thom- as Sawyer to put to death by torture. Sawyer proposed to the French governor that he should build a saw mill on the Chamblay river, in con- sideration of saving his life from the Indians, and giving the three captives their freedom. The French needed the mill and were glad of the opportunity. But the Indians had to be reckoned with. They insisted on burning Thomas Sawyer at the stake. They knew him and knew he was a brave man, not afraid of torture and death. The crafty French gov- ernor defeated their purpose by a resort to the church. When Sawyer was tied to the stake, a Fench friar appeared with a key in his hand, and so terrible did he paint the tortures of purgatory, the key of which he told them he had in his hand ready to unlock, that they gave up their victim. Indians fear the unseen more than the real dangers, and doubtless the friar took care not to specify what he would do in case the auto-de-fe was carried on. Sawyer built the mill successfully, the first in Canada, it is said. He and Bigelow came home after seven or eight months of captivity. Elias Sawyer was kept a year longer to run the mill and teach others to run it. The captives were well treated after the French found them use- ful to them.
Thomas Sawyer married first, Sarah
1670; second, Hannah 1672; third, Mary White, 1718. He died at Lancaster, September 5, 1736, and his grave there is marked by a stone. His will mentions four sons and two daughters. He bequeathed twelve pounds to purchase a communion vessel for the Lancaster church. Children : 1. William. 2. Jo- seph. 3. Bazalie. 4. Elias. 5. Mary, mar- ried Josiah Rice of Marlborough. 6. Hannah, married Jonathan Moore, of Bolton. 7. (Per- haps) Sarah, married Rev. Nathaniel Whit- man, of Deerfield. .
(III) William Sawyer, son of Thomas Saw- yer (2), was born in Lancaster. He married, 1700, Hannah, daughter of John Houghton, 2nd. They settled in the southern part of what is now the village of Bolton, then Lancaster. Their garrison assignment near the centre was with John Moore, near Fryeville. He owned
land in other places-a hundred acres on the west slope of Gates Hill, now called Sawyer Hill, and one hundred and twenty acres on the east slope of the hill. Children: I. Benjamin. 2. Israel. 3. Joseph. 4. William. 5. Josiah, mentioned below. 6. Uriah. 7. Aholiab. 8. Mary, married Phineas Willard. 9. Hannah, married John Snow. 10. Hepsibah, married Increase Powers ; married second, Thankful Fairbanks. II. Martha, married Charles Wil- der.
(IV) Deacon Josiah Sawyer, son of Wil- liam Sawyer (3), was born in Lancaster, in 1714. He was one of the charter members of the Berlin church, and its deacon. His Bible, and the stand on which it rested during his daily family devotions, have been preserved by his descendants. In 1735, while he was a young man, he was living with his father at Bolton, but was clearing the land on Sawyer Hill and was preparing to make his home there. While returning home one evening afoot, as was his custom, an Indian waylaid him, just as he was descending the hill north of the Quaker meeting-house. Sawyer dodged the upraised, tomahawk and took to his heels. Fortunately for him, he was a good runner, for he was unarmed. The savage soon saw that he was outclassed, and gave up the pur- suit. By measurement the next day it was found that one of the leaps, as the footprints showed, was sixteen feet. That leap is fam- ous in Berlin history.
He married Sarah , who died 1762. He married second, Mary Tooker. The Took- er family preceded the Chase family on the Acre in Clinton. She died March 25, 1709, aged seventy-one years. He died July 3, 1805, aged ninety-one years. He was deacon of the church from 1770 to 1799. Children of first wife: I. Josiah, born November 24, 1738; died young. 2. William, born March 5, 1740. 3. Hannah, born June 25, 1743 ; married Curtis, of Harvard. 4. Rebecca, born Feb- ruary 15, 1745; married Wilder, of Putney, Vermont. 5. Sarah, born Feb- ruary 6, 1747; married William Wilder, of Putney, Vermont. 6. A'holiab, born 1749. 7. Josiah, born November 8, 1752; mentioned be- low. Children of second wife: 8. Levi. born November 10, 1764. 9. Silas, born July 5, 1766. 10. Thomas, born March 9, 1770: died I771.
(V) Josiah Sawyer, son of Deacon Josiah Sawyer (4), was born in Berlin, Massachu- setts, November 8, 1752. He married Bath- sheba Moore, of Putney, Vermont, who died March 17. 1778. He had the homestead in
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Berlin, which he left to his daughter Lucinda. The place is now or was lately owned by Will- ard G. Bruce. Josiah was a farmer. He mar- ried second, Persis, daughter of Samuel Baker, who died 1785. He married third, Prudence Johnson of Leominster, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 4, 1786. Children of first wife: I. Alvah, born October 30, 1770. 2. Eunice, born No- vember 10, 1774; married Ephraim Babcock. 3. Bathsheba, born May 9, 1778; died young. Children of second wife: 4. Susanna, born November 19, 1781 ; married Caleb Houghton. 5. Bathsheba, born 1784; died young. Chil- dren of third wife: 6. Ira, born October I, 1787. 7. Lucinda, born April 20, 1789; mar- ried first, Armory Carter; second, Cummings Moore. 8. Rufus, born September 22, 1790; mentioned below. 9. George, born February 6, 1793. 10. Asa, born September 3, 1795. II. Persis, born June 18, 1798; married Lor- ing Howe, of Marlborough. 12. Sarah, born July 12, 1800; married Lewis Carter; died February 26, 1895. Josiah Sawyer was a sol- dier of the Revolution, in Captain Benjamin Hasting's company, Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment, in 1775, also in Captain Jonathan Houghton's company, and Captain David Nourse's company ; he served at Fishkill, New York, and at the Bennington alarm in 1778.
(VI) Rufus Sawyer, son of Josiah Sawyer (5), born September 22, 1790, died April 12, 1865. He settled in Berlin, Massachusetts, on the farm belonging to Hezekiah Gibbs, now or lately owned by F. A. Woodward. He mar- ried, June 13, 1813, Seraph, daughter of Adam Bartlett. They celebrated their golden wed- ding in the room in which they were married in Judge Baker's stone mansion in 1863. She died December 3, 1863. Children : I. Alden, born March 24, 1814. 2. Almina, born July II, 1815; married Horace Bigelow. 3. Israel, born October 12, 1817. 4. Lucinda, born Au- gust 5, 1819 ; married Israel Moore, of Bolton ; died October 27, 1840. 5. Edwin, born Sep- tember 16, 1821; mentioned below. 6. Eli, born May 22, 1823. 7. Addison, born April 6, 1825 ; married Elizabeth Brigham; resided at Reading ; died March 9, 1893. 8. Joseph, born June 2, 1827 ; married Elona Smith; re- sided at Hadley ; died June 18, 1886. 9. Jon- athan Orison, born July 26, 1829; married Alice Currier; resided at Lawrence; died April 26, 1887. 10. Rufus Curtis, born Oc- tober 8, 1832.
(VII) Edwin Sawyer, son of Rufus Saw- yer (6), born September 16, 1821, died No- vember 19, 1891. He was a shoemaker, and in later years a farmer. He settled in Carterville,
a part of Berlin, on the place now or lately owned by W. B. Morse, and his children were born there. He was selectman of Berlin 1871 and 1873, and his portrait is in the "Berlin History." He married Emily, daughter of Leonard and Abigail Pierce Hartwell, who died March 12, 1892. Children: I. Alice Viola, born January 10, 1851 ; died May 19, 1897. 2. Edwin Irving, mentioned below.
(VIII) Edwin Irving Sawyer, son of Ed- win Sawyer (7), was born in Berlin, Decem- ber 8, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and in a private school at Clinton, Massachusetts, and at the Bryant & Stratton Business College in Boston. From the age of twelve years he worked with his father in the manufacture of shoes. He became a clerk in the general store at West Boylston at the age of twenty. A year later he became bookkeeper for J. Boyd & Company, Marlborough, Massachusetts, and remained with that firm until 1879, when he accepted a similar position with the firm of S. H. Howe. When the business was incorporated in 1887, under name of the S. H. Howe Shoe Company, he was made clerk of the company and director and during the same year became superin- tendent of the factory, a position he has held to the present time. The business of the S. H. Howe Shoe Company is among the largest in the state and stands among the leading houses in the character of its product as well as in the amount of its output.
Mr. Sawyer is a member of Marlborough .
Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 85, with which he affiliated in 1876, and in which he has held all the offices in succession. He was district depu- ty several terms. He is a member of Marl- borough Lodge of Free Masons ; of Houghton Royal Arch Chapter ; of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, and of the various bodies to and including the thirty-second degree of Ma- sonry. In 1891, when the city was incorpor- ated, he was elected the first alderman from Ward Six. In 1905 he was elected a trustee of the Marlborough Savings Bank, and has been a director of the First National Bank of Marlborough since 1904. He is clerk of the O. H. Stevens Manufacturing Company, and director and clerk of the Marlborough Build- ing Association.
In October, 1877, Mr. Sawyer married Liz- zie A. Johnson, born September 3, 1856, daughter of George E. and Harriet B. Johnson, of Berlin, Massachusetts. They had one child, Alice Maude, born September 17, 1888, died December following.
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