Biography - ALBERT B. SAWYER
Albert
B. Sawyer was born in the town of Milton, Chittenden county, Vermont,
January 3, 1837. Since 1885 he has been a resident of Tuscola, Illinois,
having from that time until 1899 been a member of the dry-goods firm of
Wardall & Sawyer.
In Mr. Sawyer's childhood his parents came to Illinois, living near and
finally in Joliet. His boyhood and youth were spent in that part of the
state, on the farm, going to school or assisting his father, Jed Sawyer, in
filling the extensive railroad contracts which he took when the railroads
around Joliet were being built. Having gone to Texas in 1860, he lived near
Houston until after the Civil war broke out, when, being unable to return to
the north except as a Confederate soldier, he turned to the west, finally
entering the Republic of Mexico. There he turned his attention to the great
business of northern Mexico — silver mining — in which he was engaged from
1862 to 1884, when he sold out his mining interests there and returned to
Illinois. Two years previously he had married Miss Fanny M. Wardall, of
Tolono. Illinois. To their union five children have been born: Harriet,
Albert B., Jr., Margaret, Gertrude and John W. Since 1885 their home has
heen in Tuscola.
Extracted 09 Jun 2019 by Norma Hass from the Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, published in 1900, pages 214-215.
