July 5, 1881 Machias, Union (TENNEY; Sawyer Family of Steuben) Date: 97-08-23 14:45:29 EDT (c) 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill please send corrections to: e-mail ctyankee@bigfoot.com or snail mail: Kenneth A. Dill 581 Crown St #27 Meriden, CT. 06450 WOW!! Two postings from me today :) I am now tired and my fingers are tired but I think everyone will enjoy these two postings. Make sure that you read the last section of this posting, if there are any typos, I am sorry about them but I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. Ken [This is another issue in poor condition, the deaths and marriages are again unreadable. Ken] The Tenney Family George Tenney married ____________ Elwell; came from Marblehead, Mass and settled on Pleasant river near the Joseph Nash farm below Columbia Falls, in about 1776. Their children were George, David, John, Elisha, Samuel, Silas, Deborah, Joanna, Sarah, Bethia. George married Lydia Archer; children-- Margaret, Betsey, William, Daniel, Bertania, Joseph F. David married Mercy Stevens; children-- David, Abagail, Edmund, George, Lydia, John, Fannie. John married Sally Whitney; children-- John, Polly. Elisha married Lydia Colson; children-- Alexander, Uriah, Otis, Smiley, Joel. Samiel married Rhoda ________; children-- Levi, Mercey, Timothy, Ella, Melissa. Silas married Sarah Drisko; one child Warren. Deborah married Elijah Kelly; children-- John, Elijah, George, Thomas, Frederic, Samuel, Mary, Sarah, Bethia. Joanna married Nathaniel Cox; no children. Sarah married Edward Cox; children-- Nathaniel, John, Elsie, Phebe, James, Hannah, Mary, Aaron. Bethia married _________ Stanhope. John, son of George the senior, was lost overboard from a vessel at Marblehead. Sawyer Family; Steuben Joseph Sawyer and Sarah Dyer were married at Cape Elizabeth, Nov 3, 1786 and about 1790 settled at Steuben. Their children were Susan, Betsey, Joseph, Henry, Abagail, Sally, Catharine, Eben, L Baker, Annah. Susan married Nathaniel Ingersol of Columbia. Betsey married Joshua Dyer of Sullivan. Joseph married 1st Wealthy Dyer; 2d Delia Yeaton both of Steuben. Henry married Cynthia Foster. Abagail married Sewell Leighton. Sally married Ambrose Coffin of Columbia. Catharine married Amos Allen of Columbia. Eben married Fannie Wass of Addison. L Baker married 1st Sophronia Handy; 2d Sarah A Sawyer; no children first marriage, second marriage the children are L Baker Jr. born Nov 24, 1871, and Charles A. born Feb 11, 1878. Mr L B Sawyer was born Feb 23, 1802 and will be 80 years old next Feburary. His youngest child is not yet 3 years old. The senior Joseph Sawyer married 2d Mercy Look; children David L and Anna. The entire family of sons, five, held commissions in the old State militia. L Baker was commissioned as Captain of a Company of Infantry, 1st Regiment, 2d brigade, 7th Division, by Jonathan G Munton, Governor; Edward Russell Sec of State Oct 20, 1830. In 1833 he was commissioned as Major; in 1836 as Lieutenant Colonel and in 1837 as Colonel. He was all through the Aroostook war. He resigned his Commission in 1842. The Sawyers are remembered as temperate, industrious men and worthy citizens. The Steuben family, the Milbridge family and Jonesport family of Sawyers do not seem to know of any family connection. L Baker Sawyer so nearly an octogenarian is in remarkably good health, faculties well preserved. Lady Physicians [Due to the poor quality of this paper, I will post an artical that was on the front page of this issue] A St. Louis doctor factory recently turned out a dozen female doctors. As long as the female doctors were confined to one or two in the whole country, and those only experimental, we held our peace, and did not complain; but now that the colleges are engaged in producing female doctors as a business, we must protest, and in so doing will give a few reasons why female doctors will not prove a paying branch of industry. In the first place, if they doctor anybody it must be women, and three-fourths of the women would rather have a male doctor. Suppose those colleges turn out female doctors until there are as many of them as there are male doctors, what have they got to pratice on? A man, if there is nothing the matter with him, might call in a female doctor, but if he was sick as a horse, (if a man is sick, he is sick as a horse,) the last thing he would have around would be a female doctor. And why? Because, when a man has a female fumbling around him he wants to feel well. He don't want to be bilious or feverish, with his mouth tasting like cheese, and his eyes blood-shot, when the female is looking him over and taking account of stock. Of course these female doctors are all young and good-looking, and if one of them came into a sick room where a man was in bed, and he had chills, and was cold as a wedge, and she should sit up close to the side of the bed and take hold of his hand, his pulse would run up to a hundred and fifty, and she would prescribe for a fever when he had chilblains. Oh, you can't fool us on female doctors. A man who has been sick, and had male doctors, knows just how he would feel to have a female doctor come tripping in and throw her furlined cloak over a chair, take off her hat and gloves and throw them on a lounge, and come up to the bed with a pair of marine blue eyes, with a twinkle in the corner, and look him in the wild, changeable eyes, and ask him to run out his tongue. Suppose he knew his tongue was coated so it looked like a yellow Turkish towel, do you suppose he would want to run out over five or six inches of the lower part of it and let that female doctor put her finger on it to see how fur it was? Not much. He would put that tongue up into his cheek, and wouldn't let her see it for twenty-five cents admission. We have all seen doctors put their hands under the bed-clothes and feel of a man's feet to see if they were cold. If a female doctor should do that it would give a man cramps in his legs. A male doctor can put his hand on a man's stomach, and liver and lungs, and ask him if he feels any pain there, but if a female doctor should do the same thing it would make a man sick, and he would want to get up and kick himself for employing a female doctor. Oh, there is no use in talking, surely it would kill a man. Now, suppose a man has heart disease, and a female doctor should want to listen to the beating of his heart. She would lay her left ear on his left breast, so her eyes and rosebud mouth would be looking right in his face, and her wavy hair would be scattered all around there, getting tangled in the button of his night shirt. Don't you suppose his heart would get in about twenty extra beats to the minute? You bet! And she would smile - we will bet ten dollars she would smile - and show her pearly teeth, and the ripe lips would be working as though she were counting the beats, and he would think she was trying to whisper to him, and--. Well, what would he be doing all this time? If he was not dead yet, which would be a wonder, his left hand would brush the hair away from her temple and kind of stay there to keep the hair away, and his right hand would get sort of nervous and move around to the back of her head, and when she had counted the beats a few minutes and was raising her head he would draw the head up to him and kiss her once for luck, if he was as billious as a Jersey swamp angel - and have her charge it in the bill. And then a reaction would set in, and he would be as sick as a cat, and she would have to fan him and rub his head till he got over being nervous, and then make out his prescription after he got asleep. No; all of man's symptoms change when a female doctor is practicing on him, and she would kill him dead. Peck's Sun. -- Kenneth A. Dill ctyankee@bigfoot.com ctyankee@home.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7229 (c) 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill please send corrections to: e-mail ctyankee@bigfoot.com or snail mail: Kenneth A. 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