JOHN SAWYER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 663 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN SAWYER, farmer; P. O. Rochester; born in Spencer, Columbia Co., N.
Y., Jan. 3, 18O5 was the son of William and Esther; came to Rochester
about 1850 bought a farm of eighty acres on Sec. 18. Married Miss
America Soule, of New York State, March 2, 1829; they had eight
children; five are living. Mrs. Sawyer died Aug. 14, 1851. He married
again, Oct. 9, 1862, Miss Sarah Buck, of Holton, Me.; they have had one
child-- Willian Eugene, born June 15, 1865. Family attend Baptist
Church.