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SAWYER

nock campaign. 1862-63; cliief quartermaster of the right graiul division in the battle of Fred- ericksburg, Dee. 13. 18G.3; chief quarterni:ister of cavalry corps, Army of the Potomac, Jan. 24- June 13, 1863; assistant chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, June 21-Aug. 6, 18C3; chief quartermaster of the cavalry bureau at Washington. D.C., 1863-Gl; cliief-quartermaster of the forces on the Rio Grande river, Feb.-April,

1864, having charge of the transports and sup- plies for the relief of General Banks' army on its return from Red River. He was in charge of the steam transportation in the department of the Gulf. May 19-June 6, 1864; and was chief quar- termaster of the military division of West Missis- sippi. 1864-65. He was brevetted major, lieu- tenant-colonel and colonel U.S.A., March 13,

1865, for faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion; was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1SG5, for faithful and merito- rious services in the quartermaster's department during the rebellion. He was promoted colonel of staff, U.S. v., May 25, 1865, was chief quarter- master of the military division of the Southwest, June 3-Julyl7, 1865; was appointed chief-quar- termaster of the military division of the Gulf in 1865 and of the department of the Gulf in 18G6. He was promoted major, Jan. 18, 1867; lieuten- ant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general, Jan. 24, 1881; colonel and assistant quartermaster- general. Sept. 12. 1894; brigadier-general and quartermaster-general, Aug. 19, 1896, and was retired at his own request, Feb. 16. 1897. He was married, March 30, 1869, to Alice Chester, daugh- ter of Edmund S. and Sarah (Clark) Muuroe of Englewood. N.J.

SAWYER, Caroline Mehitabel (Fisher), author, was born in Newton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1812; daughter of Jesse and Anna (Kenrick)Fisher; granddaughter of John Kenrick, and a descen- dant of the Rev. Thomas Foxcroft of Boston — her maternal great-grand-mother, ^lehitable (Foxcroft) Miriam, wife of Rev. John Miriam of Newton, being his daughter. Slie was educated at home by her uncle, Enoch Kenrick, and was married, Sept. 21, 1831, to Dr. Thomas Jefferson Sawyer (q.v.). They had seven children. She edited the Lndies' Repository, 1861-64, and is the author of: The Juvenile Library {^ vols., 1845); The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition (1847); edited the "Poems" of Mrs. Julia H. Scott, with a memoir (1854); translated Van Horn's "Friedel" from the German (1856); and conducted The Rose of Sharon, an annual publication (1850-58). She died at Cr.llorrf. Tlill. Mass.. May 19. 1894.

SAWYER, Charles Henry, governor of New Hamf)shire, was liorn in Watertown, N.Y..Mfirch 30. 1840; son of Jonathan and Martha (Perkins) Sawyer; grandson of Phinehas and Hannah

(Whitney) Sawyer and of Cyrus and Martha (Cliilds) Perkins, and a descendant of Thomas and Mary (Prescott) Sawyer, who were among the first settlers of Lancaster, Mass., 1647. In 1850 his parents moved to Dover, N.H., where he at- tended the public schools and Franklin academj-. He was married, Feb. 8. 1860, to Susan Ellen, daughter of Dr. James W. and Elizabeth (Hodgdon) Cowan of Dover. He was su- perintendent of theSaw3'er Woolen mills, 1865-81, and president of that company, 1881-98. He was representative in the New Hampshire legislature, 1S69-70 and 1876-77; a delegate to the Republi- can national convention of 1884, and governor of New Hampshire, 1887-89. He was commissioner from New Hampshire to the Paris exposition, 1889, and officially connected wilh railways, banks and other institutions, retiring from business in 1898. He was a trustee of Dartmouth college, 1887-89, and received from there the honorary degree of A.M. in 1887, and that of M.S. from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

SAWYER, Frederick Adolphus, senator, was born in Bolton. Mass.. Dec. 12, 1822; son of Joseph and Abigail (Bender) Sawyer, and grand- son of Peter Bender, a native of Germany. He earned his college tuition and expenses by teach- ing school, and was graduated at Harvard in 1844. He taught in Gardiner, Maine, 1844-47; "Wiscasset. Maine, 1847-51; Lowell, Mass., 1852; Nashua. N.H., 1852; Wakefield. Mass., 1853-55, and Boston, Mass.. 1855-59. He was married in 1854 to Delia E., daughter of Ira and Mary (White) Gay of Nashua. He was principal of the state normal school at Charleston, S.C., 1859-63; was active in promoting reconstruction measures, and was collector of internal revenue for the 2d dis- trict of South Carolina, 1865-68. He was elected a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1867, but was unable to be present, and was elected one of the first L".S. senators from South Carolina under the reconstruction laws of the state, serving from July 22. 1868, to March 3, 1873. From March, 1873, to June. 1874, he was assi.stant secretary of the U.S. treasury, and with other officials was charged with procuring the payment of a fraudulent cotton claim, of which he was acquitted on a second trial; was con- nected with the coast survey, 1874-80; was a special agent of the war department, 1880-87, and conducted a preparatory school in Ithaca, N.Y., for several years. He died in Sewanee, Tenn., July 31. 1891.

SAWYER, Horace Bucklin, naval officer, was born in Burlington, Vt.. Feb. 22, 1797; son of