S. H. SAWYER

SAWYER, MILLER

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Date: 7/15/2009 at 06:21:09

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

S. H. SAWYER, physician and surgeon, office and residence Main Street, Unionville; born in Tennessee, Jan. 18, 1832; at the age of 15 or in 1847, his father came to this county and settled a few miles west of what is now Unionville, and there engaged in farming. Dr. Sawyer commenced the study of medicine in 1850, graduated at Keokuk, Feb. 28, 1854, since which he has practiced here, except three years which he passed with the army during our late war; went out as Captain of Co. C, 36th Iowa V.I., having raised the company of 135 men in three days, but before they had fairly entered service, was appointed Surgeon of his regiment; afterward Division Surgeon, which position he held the greater part of the time he remained out. In consequence of ill health, he resigned in January 1865. He married Miss Mary F. Miller in October 1855; she was born in Tennessee in 1834; her father, John Miller, who was one of the early settlers of this county, built the first bus8iness house in Unionville and was among the first in mercantile business there; he died in 1865, during a severe epidemic of erysipelas which prevailed here that year. They have eight children - John L., a graduate in medicine at Louisville in 1875, at the head of his class, bearing away the gold medal; also a graduate of Chicago in 1877, now resident phyusician of Cook Co. Hospital; Mary L., S.H. Jr., Emma, Clyde, Mott, Ada, Zelma. First a Whig now a Republican; members of the Presbyterian Church; Master of Lodge 119, A.F.&A.M., at Unionville, and member of Chapter and Commandery at Centerville.