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(IV) Andrew Chesley, second son of Jo- seph Reed and Sarah R. ( Haskell) Sawyer, was born at Levant, Maine, March 22, 1844. He was educated in the local schools, and at the age of eighteen enlisted as a private in Company F, Eighteenth Maine Regiment, in the fall of 1862. Later he was transferred to the First Maine Heavy Artillery, and served for a year and a half on the defences at Wash- ington. In the spring of 1864 his company was joined to the Army of the Potomac, with which he served till the end of the war. On February 18, 1865, he was promoted to the position of sergeant major. In June, 1865, Major Sawyer came to Bangor, Maine, where he engaged as clerk in a shoe store. In 1867 he started in the retail shoe business on his own account, and in 1872 went into the whole- sale shoe business. In 1892 he incorporated the business as the Sawyer Boot & Shoe Com- pany, with Andrew C. Sawyer as president. In 1890 he began the manufacture of moc- casins in connection with his general business. His shoe trade extends over Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, while the moccasins and moccasin slippers go to all parts of the United States, to England and throughout Eu- rope. The latter business has grown to great proportions, although in its infancy, having only been a distinctive feature since 1905. Major Sawyer may well be satisfied with the success of this enterprise, which is due to his own energy and business ability, ably assisted by his sons. He belongs to Hannibal Hamlin
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Post, No. 165, Grand Army of the Republic, and for many years has been deacon of the Central Congregational church. He is a Re- publican.
On July 18, 1871, Major Andrew Chesley Sawyer married Ella Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin E. and Abigail A. Pendleton, of Bangor, and a descendant in the ninth genera- tion from John and Priscilla Aklen. Chil- dren: I. Howard Field, born November 18, 1872, attended public schools, associated with his father in business since sixteen years of age, now treasurer of company ; married, Oc- tober 7, 1906, Blanche Clayton, of Bangor ; child, Elizabeth. 2. Rowland Judson, born December 25, 1873, attended public schools, at age of sixteen entered father's store, now vice-president of company ; married, June 3, 1908, Helen Hill, of Worcester, Massachu- setts. 3. Harold C., born January 26, 1880, attended public schools, been engaged in busi- ness with father since sixteen years of age; married, October 22, 1901, Marion Hart, of Bangor; children: Lovis, Alden Hart and Priscilla. 4. Edith May, born May 19, 1885, educated in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 5. Mabel Louise, born July 20, 1887, educated at Newton, Massachusetts.
In his maternal line Major Sawyer is de- scended from William Haskell, the immigrant (q. v.), as follows :
(II) Mark, fifth son of William ( I) and Mary (Tybbot) Haskell, was born April 8, 1658, and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he died September 8, 1691, at the early age of thirty-three years. On December 16, 1685, he married Elizabeth Giddings, supposed to be daughter of Lieutenant John Giddings, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. She afterwards married John Dennison, of Ipswich. Children : I. George, born October 18, 1686, died No- vember 10, 1686. 2. Mark, born September 16, 1687. 3. William (2), whose sketch fol- lows.
(III) William (2), youngest of the three sons of Mark and Elizabeth (Giddings) Has- kell, was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, January 1, 1689-90, and died there December 10, 1766, aged seventy-seven years. He was a selectman of the town, a deacon of the sec- ond church for many years, and in 1736 was a representative to the general court. He mar- ried Jemima Hubbard, who died in 1762, at the age of seventy-seven years. Children: I. Jemima, born March 2, 1713, died March 2, 1735. 2. Job, whose sketch follows. 3. Com- fort, May 28, 1717, married Parker Sawyer, November 10, 1742, died September 5, 1809,
aged ninety-two years. 4. Nathaniel, January 16, 1719. 5. Hubbard, May 3, 1720. 6. Eliza- beth, November 8, 1723, died at the age of one month. 7. William, January 17, 1726. 8. George, February 10, 1729, died at the age of nine days.
(IV) Job, eldest son of William (2) and Jemima (Hubbard) Haskell, was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, April 27, 1716, and died at Levant, Maine, in July, 1806. When a young man he moved to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, where he united with the church in 1737, being dismissed from the church in Gloucester. Job Haskell for many years made his home in what was originally the Gorges tavern, where in 1737 the legis- lature of New Hampshire met that of Massa- chusetts for the purpose of establishing a boundary line between the two states. Prob- ably he kept a public house part of the time, as he had a license from the selectmen to mix . and sell spirituous liquors. He also took care of the church, and was a revolutionary soldier. It is not known just what year he moved to Maine, but probably about 1787, as his name disappears from the records of Hampton Falls about that time. He was then seventy years of age, and probably went to live with his chil- dren or grandchildren. In 1738 Job Haskell married Mercy, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Lock) Leavitt, of Hampton Falls. Children : I. Thomas, born January 2, 1739. 2. Nathaniel, February 14, 1742, see forward. 3. Job, November 22, 1744. 4. Jemima, June 23, 1749, married Tobey. 5. William, July 30, 1755.
(V) Nathaniel, son of Job and Mercy (Leavitt) Haskell, was born at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, February 14, 1742, and died at New Gloucester, Maine, February 14, 1794. The tombstone of Lieutenant Nathan- iel Haskell, in the New Gloucester cemetery, was visited by Rev. Hudson Sawyer, of Togus, Maine, November 7, 1902, and he found the following carved thereon: "In memory of Capt. Nathaniel Haskell, who was an officer in the American Revolutionary War. He died February 14, 1794, age 52." When a young man he moved to New Gloucester, where he served in the revolution. He is recorded on the rolls as second lieutenant in the Thirty- first Regiment, Captain Moses Merrill, Colo- nel Edmund Phinney, from April 24 to July 5, 1775. Lieutenant Nathaniel Haskell mar- ried Deborah Bailey, who died at New Gloucester, Maine, February 16, 1806. Chil- dren : I. Nathaniel. 2. Job, see forward. 3. Dorothy, born May 9, 1768. 4. Deborah. 5.
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Mercy. 6. Joseph. 7. Thankful 8. Jemima, born January 15, 1775. 9. Dennis. 10. Will- iam, born November 6, 1780. 11. Hannah, died in New Gloucester, December 31, 1797, aged thirteen years. 12. Aretas.
(VI) Job (2), son of Lieutenant and Deborah (Bailey) Haskell, was born at New Gloucester, Maine, May II, 1765, and died at Levant, Maine, January 18, 1847, at the home of his daughter, Sarah ( Randall) Sawyer. He lived in New Gloucester, Greene, Monmouth, Poland, Detroit, and Levant, Maine. He mar- ried (first) April 25, 1790, Judith Dwinal ; she died in New Gloucester, Maine. He married (second) March 18, 1802, Widow Mary Bailey, whose maiden name was Mary Cox ; she died in New Gloucester. He married (third) Hannah Cutler, whose maiden name was Hannah Blanchard; she died April 8, 1852. Children by Judith (Dwinal) Haskell, all born in New Gloucester, Maine: I. Annis, January 10, 1791. 2. Judith, February 29, 1792. 3. Job, May 29, 1794. 4. Deborah, February 29, 1796. 5. Mary, June 1, 1797. 6. Betsey, October 22, 1798. 7. Lois, May 16, 1800. Children by Mary (Cox) (Bailey) Haskell, all born in New Gloucester, Maine : 8. Submit, March II, 1803. 9. Nathaniel, Au- gust 1, 1804. 10. Katherine, June 9, 1806. II. Nathaniel, August 1, 1808. 12. John, August 9, 1810. 13. Sophronia, July 4, 1813. 1.4. Lucy Ann, May 13, 1815. Children by Han- nah (Blanchard) (Cutler) Haskell : 15. Ruth Maria, born July 12, 1818, in New Gloucester, Maine. 16. Sarah Randall, September 19, 1820, in Greene, Maine. 17. Dorcas Cox, March 27, 1822, in Monmouth, Maine. 18. Ann (twin), March 27, 1822, in Monmouth, Maine. 19. Infant. 20. Charles Blanchard, January 7, 1828, in Poland, Maine.
(VII) Sarah Randall, daughter of Job (2) and Hannah ( Blanchard) (Cutler) Haskell, was born at Greene, Maine, September 19, 1820, and died at Old Town, Maine, March 20, 1906. On November 27, 1839, she was mar- ried at Kenduskeag. Maine, to Joseph Reed Sawyer, son of Jonathan (2) Sawyer, who was born in 1819, at Boothbay, Maine. They set- tled in Levant, Maine, where they lived until 1867, then moved to Old Town, Maine. (See Sawyer family.)
The name of Sawyer is exceed- SAWYER ingly numerous in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts ; and as the early records are scanty and have never been correlated, it is almost impossible to
trace some of the branches prior to the revo- lution.
(I) Aaron Sawyer was born at Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1758. In early life he moved to Boothbay, Maine, where the name was very numerous about the end of the eighteenth cen- tury. There were several heads of families in the town at that time, but whether they were brothers or not is uncertain. One of these men was Jonathan Sawyer, born March 6, 1749, died October 21, 1809. He was town clerk of Boothbay from 1794 to 1806, and noted for his artistic penmanship. Unfortu- nately, he did not leave any records about his ancestry, though it is thought that he and all others bearing the patronymic came from Newburyport, Massachusetts, and that neigh- borhood. Jonathan had a brother, Jacob Saw- yer, who lived at Sawyer's Island in Booth- bay Harbor, and died March 9, 1821. It is thought that Aaron Sawyer was not a brother to these two men; but Aaron had a brother Samuel Sawyer, who built the first tannery in town, on the mainland, opposite Hodgdon's Island. The name of Aaron Sawyer appears in the revolutionary rolls on a return of men raised from Colonel Jones' regiment for guards over convention, magazines and public stores, under General Heath. The order was dated at Pownalboro, August 20, 1778, and the resi- dence of Aaron Sawyer was given at Booth- bay. On March 27, 1780, Aaron Sawyer, of Boothbay, and Sally Hodgdon, of Edgecomb, were published in marriage. She was born at Boothbay in 1759. Children: Aaron, born in 1781; Benjamin, 1783; Joshua, 1785: Sally, 1787; Jonathan, 1789; Jacob, 1791 ; Stephen, whose sketch follows.
(II) Captain Stephen, youngest child of Aaron and Sarah (Hodgdon) Sawyer, was born at Mount Desert, Maine, July 4, 1795, died July 17, 1849. He lived at East Booth- bay, and from his title must have been a sea- faring man. Captain Samuel Sawyer and Captain Simeon Sawyer also lived at Booth- bay contemporaneous with Captain Stephen. but if they were brothers their names are not recorded in the list of the children of Aaron and Sarah (Hodgdon) Sawyer. About 1829 Captain Stephen Sawyer married Abigail An- derson, born at Wiscasset, Maine, October 17, 1798, died December 31, 1870. Children : I. Wilmarth, February 25, 1821. 2. Louisa, Sep- tember 13, 1822. 3. Stephen, August 24, 1824. 4. Simeon, September 17, 1826, was a Forty- niner, went to California, where he died. and accumulated considerable wealth. 5. Abigail,
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October 7, 1828. 6. Stephen, October 2, 1831. 7. Sarah Elizabeth, December 15, 1833, mar- ried Elias 11. Fish, of Newcastle, Maine. 8. Henry C., February 27. 1836, went to San Francisco, California, where he was an overseer of ship-building, accumulated much wealth, and died there. 9. William M., whose sketch follows.
(III) William M., sixth son of Captain Stephen and Abigail (Anderson) Sawyer, was born at East Boothbay, Maine, June 29, 1838, died August 17, 1906. He was educated in the common schools, and when a boy showed his enterprise by starting in business as the pro- prietor of a small candy-store. But the sea- faring instinct was strong in his blood, and he soon drifted into an intimacy with old ocean, which continued through his life. Mr. Saw- yer's first marine venture was the purchase of a small vessel with which he traded up and down the coast, buying old iron and metal. He took up his abode at Boothbay Harbor, where he bought vessels and. wreckage, trading as occasion offered, and at different times he owned sixty sailing-vessels. In 1876 he be- came a ship-chandler, and started a store in Boothbay, where he handled all kinds of sea- man's supplies, and also dealt in general mer- chandise.' Mr. Sawyer continued in this busi- ness for thirty years, or up to the time of his death. He was a director in the savings bank at Boothbay Harbor, and was in all respects a useful and respected citizen of his town. He was a Republican in politics, a member of Boothbay Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and at- tended the Congregational church. He mar- ried Angie Jack, of Richmond, Maine, born in 1831, died in 1886. Children : Melville D., born in 1861, now in the fish business in Boothbay Harbor, and William Elmer, whose sketch follows.
(IV) William Elmer, younger of the two sons of William M. and Angie (Jack) Saw- yer, was born at East Boothbay, Maine, June 15, 1863. He was educated in the town schools, and, true to his ancestry, took to the sea in early life. For six years he was en- gaged in the coasting trade, having charge of the schooners "Rosa E.," "Frolic," "Sarah Jane" and "Sunbeam" ; and he became a mas- ter mariner. He has been master of a num- ber of other vessels, also owner of different vessels. He left the sea to go into the ice business, and also engaged in furnishing fisher- men's supplies. In 1906, on the death of his father, Mr. Sawyer took over his store, and now manages it in connection with his ice business and other interests. He owns a trap
business and fish wears. For seventeen years he has held the state position of wrecking master, is also wrecking commissioner, and has wrecked more than twenty-five sailing vessels, from eleven hundred tons down. This is re- sponsible work, requiring good judgment and a knowledge of all kinds of nautical affairs and requirements. At his store Mr. Sawyer car- ries every variety of fishermen's supplies and outfits, besides all kind of groceries. He also handles about six thousand tons of ice yearly. Mr. Sawyer is much interested in fraternal organizations, is a member of Boothbay Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the Pythian Sisterhood, of Seaside Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Pentecost Royal Arch Chapter, Boothbay Harbor, and of the Royal Arcanum. He is a Republican in politics and attends the Methodist church. On December 22, 1890, he married Minnie P., daughter of Charles and Rachel Gove, of Newcastle, Maine. Children : Angie Ray, born in 1892; Valeria Edith, 1894; Elmer, 1895.
The Sawyer name is one of the
SAWYER most numerous in the state of Maine, and it is not always possible to connect the different branches. The antecedents of Nathaniel Sawyer have not been discovered.
(I) Nathaniel Sawyer, born November 18, 1792, died at Isleborough, Maine, November 26, 1870. He was a master ship-builder, and came to Isleborough from Isle au Haut in the Penobscot Bay, which may have been his birth- place. It is possible that he was descended from one of three brothers, Jacob, John and Israel, who moved to Falmouth, Maine, 1716- 19. These men were the grandsons of Will- iam Sawyer who was at Gloucester, Massa- chusetts, in 1640. Jacob Sawyer married Sarah Wallis, and John Sawyer married Re- becca Stanford, and some of their descend- ants settled at Durham, Maine. Nathaniel Sawyer, of Isleborough, married Sarah Gro- ver, born September 16, 1794, died February 14, 1871. Children: 1. William, born March 24, 1817, died April 22 of that year. 2. Eliza B., August 28, 1818, married David Collins. 3. Paul, whose sketch follows. 4. Amelia, Jan- uary 14, 1823, married William Collins. 5. Nathan, September 1, 1826, died in infancy. 6. Matilda T., twin, September 1, 1826, mar- ried Gamaliel R. Pendleton. 7. George W., October 30, 1828, married (first) Druzetta Sprague, ( second) Arvilla Davis. 8. Elbridge B., July 10, 1832, married Hope Clark. 9. Lydia A., March 3, 1837, married Stephen B.
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Coombs. 10. Mary A., twin to Lydia A., mar- ried Charles A. Coburn.
(II) Paul, second son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Grover) Sawyer, was born August 24, 1820, probably at Isle au Haut, Maine, and died December, 1888. He was a sea captain, and followed the sea nearly all his life. About 1848 Captain Paul Sawyer married Lovina E., daughter of John and Lovina C. Ray, of Cas- tine. Their children: 1. Druzetta C., born November 24. 1849, died at the age of ten. 2. William Nathaniel, whose sketch fol- lows. 3. Arvilla E., May 16, 1857, Mrs. W. H. Margesson. 4. Florence S., February 3, 1861, died at age of ten.
(III) William Nathaniel, only son of Cap- tain Paul and Lovina E. (Ray) Sawyer, was born at Isleborough, Maine, March 28, 1852. He was educated in the local schools of his native town, and at the high school in Stock- ton, Maine. From the time he was ten till he was eighteen he went to school winters and to sea summers, thus gaining a thorough practical training in the school of industry, courage and helpfulness, at the same time that he was acquiring knowledge of books. Dur- ing this time he went to Philadelphia on one trip ; for seven seasons he went on fishing ves- sels from Gloucester and other places. In 1870, being eighteen years at the time, he came to Bangor, Maine, and served as an apprentice to a mason for three years. The next five years he worked as a journeyman mason. In 1878 he started into business for himself as a contractor for masonry. He is now a general contractor ; subletting all but the mason work. The following large and substantial buildings which he has erected will give some idea of the size and importance of Mr. Sawyer's con- tracts : Opera House, Y. M. C. A., Columbia, Bass and McGuire buildings, and two school- houses, all in Bangor; the first Experiment Station and the mason work for Lord Hall, both at the University of Maine at Orono; State Normal School at Castine: Stewart Li- brary Building at Corinna ; two school-houses in Old Town; Inn at Dark Harbor ; the Odd Fellows Hall at Camden ; and the Steel Ball factory at Brewer. He is also the owner of the Bangor Broom Company, makers of all kinds of house brooms, and of the Penobscot Box Company. Mr. Sawyer is a Republican in politics, and represented ward three, Bangor, in the common council for two years. He at- tends the Universalist church, and is a Mason, belonging to Rising Virtue Lodge, No. 10, Mount Moriah Royal Arch Chapter, No. 6, Bangor Council, Royal and Select Masters,
Saint John's Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar, and also belongs to the Odd Fel- lows.
Mr. Sawyer married, November 25, 1875, Carrie May, daughter of Charles, born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and Mercy (Fly) Fenno, born in Embden, Maine. Children: I. Ina May, born November 15, 1876, married, in 1897, Nealey Barrows, of Hamlin, Maine; children : Doris May and Elva Louise Bar- rows. 2. Winfield F .. born November 25, 1890.
Reuben A. Sawyer, father of
SAWYER Dr. Alfred Dow Sawyer, was born in Maine in 1810. He owned a farm at Pownal, Maine, and married Hannah Libby, who became the mother of his three children : Alfred Dow (q. v.), born Jan- uary 8, 1855; Allen J. G., who lived at Sabat- tas, Maine; and Greenleaf T., who settled in Boston, Massachusetts. Reuben A. Sawyer died in Lisbon, Androscoggin county, Maine, in 1882. He was an industrious farmer, and brought up his boys to habits of industry and frugality, they working on the farm while at- tending the district school. Late in life he left the farm at Pownal and removed to Lis- bon.
(II) Alfred Dow, son of Reuben A. and Hannah (Libby) Sawyer, was born on his father's farm in Pownal, Maine, January 8, 1855. He attended the district school of his native place, and worked on the farm until he left home to prepare for entrance to the Maine Medical School connected with Bowdoin Col- lege, having previously prepared for college at Litchfield Academy. He left the Medical School of Maine before graduating to attend lectures at the medical department of the New York University, where he was graduated M. D. in 1880. He practiced medicine and sur- gery at Lisbon Falls, Maine, 1881-85, and in 1885 removed to Fort Fairfield, Aroostook county, Maine, and established himself in that place as a physician and surgeon. He was made a member of the school board of Fort Fairfield immediately on taking up his resi- dence in that place, and for most of the time during the next twenty years was superintend- ent of schools. His professional affiliations are membership in the Aroostook Medical Asso- ciation and the Maine Medical Association. His fraternal affiliations are membership in the Eastern Frontier Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted Masons, Fort Fairfield, Maine; Aroostook Council, Presque Isle, Maine ; Gar- field Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and St.
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Aldemar Commandery, Knights Templar, of Houlton, Maine. He married, 1880, Mabel, daughter of Gardner Speer, of Lisbon, Maine, and their children were as follows: 1. Alfred Loomis, born December 23, 1881, graduated at Bowdoin College, A. B., 1904, and at the Medical School of Maine, M. D., 1907. 2. Warren, September 5, 1883, engaged in farm- ing in Fort Fairfield. 3. Herbert G., April -, 1886, a druggist in Boston, Massachusetts.
CARTER The large family of this name whose branches stretch from the shores of the Atlantic to the
Pacific coast could in a majority of cases per- haps trace their ancestry back to the educated English immigrant who, like many others, put freedom to the worship of God according to the dictates of his own conscience above every- thing else. The early Carters, like most men similarly situated, pioneer builders of a com- monwealth, were farmers. Naturally they were sturdy and industrious. They were kind- hearted and public-spirited, because they were often compelled to ask favors, and they real- ized that there was strength in union. They were sensible and God-fearing, withal, as these were inherited characteristics. It is noticeable that many of the virtues of the early stock are prominent in the later progeny, who with greater opportunities have accomplished more than was possible for the pioneers and their immediate descendants. The early records show the Carters of those days to have been prominent in all matters of public interest ; the division of land, and the laying out of roads, the building of the meeting-house, the founding of churches, and the establishment of schools were entrusted to them. Many also were active in the military organizations and duties of their day, so that much of the re- ligious, moral and intellectual culture and pros- perity of the communities where they settled is due to the labors of these ancestors.
(I) Rev. Thomas Carter was born in 1610, and graduated at St. John's College, Cam- bridge, England, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1629, and Master of Arts, 1633. He came from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Eng- land, in the "Planter," embarking April 2, 1635. He came ostensibly as a servant of George Giddings, because of the difficulty in obtaining leave to emigrate. On his arrival in this country he was admitted an inhabitant of Dedham, Massachusetts, in September, 1636. He was then a student in divinity. Subse- quently he removed to Watertown, Massachu- setts, and was ordained the first minister of
the church in Woburn, Massachusetts, No- vember 22, 1642. His death occurred Sep- tember 5, 1684. Hle preached his first sermon there December 4, 1641, and upon his ordina- tion was presented with a house built for his use. His salary was fixed at eighty pounds annually, one-fourth in silver and the re- mainder in the necessities of life at the cur- rent prices. In 1674 twenty cords of wood were given him annually in addition. He per- formed all the duties of his office as pastor for thirty-six years unaided. Afterwards Rev. Jabez Fox became his assistant till the end of life. He was characterized by one who knew him well as a "reverend, godly man, apt to teach the sound and wholesome truths of Christ," and "much encreased with the en- creasings of Christ Jesus." Prior to 1640 he married Mary Dalton, who died March 28, 1687. His children were: Samuel, Judith, Theophilus, Abigail, Deborah, Timothy and Thomas.
(II) Rev. Samuel, eldest child of Rev. Thomas and Mary (Dalton) Carter, was born August 8, 1640, graduated at Harvard College, 1660, married, 1672, Eunice Brooks, daughter of John and Eunice (Monsall) Brooks, born in Woburn, October 10, 1655, and died minister of the church in Groton, Massachusetts, in the autumn of 1693. Mr. Carter was admitted an inhabitant and pro- prietor of the common lands by vote of the town of Woburn, January 4, 1665-66, and sus- tained at different times several responsible offices in the town-selectman, 1679-81-82-83 ; commissioner of rates, 1680; town clerk, 1690; and was engaged as teacher of the grammar schools in 1685-86. He owned land on George Hill (Lancaster) given to him by the town, and this land was occupied by his descendants for several generations.
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