M. A. Sawyer From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 934.

TOWN OF BOSCOBEL

M. A. SAWYER, of the firm of Sawyer & Favor, drugs, books and fancy groceries, Boscobel; is a native of Vermont; when a child, he came with his parents to New Hampshire; clerked in a drug store in Meridith and in Concord, N. H., several years; in 1858, he opened a drug store in Bristol, N. H.; continued it till September, 1860, when he sold out and went to New Orleans; remained about six months; at the breaking-out of the war, he returned to New Hampshire, and was appointed Hospital Steward in the 3d N. H. V. I.; in 1863, he came to Milwaukee, where he remained till the following February; he then went to Louisiana and engaged in raising sugar and cotton, having, in company with others, leased a Government plantation, employing about seventy hands; they continued this about two years; in August, 1866, he came to Boscobel and bought an interest with Mr. Mortimer in the drug business; Mr. Mortimer died soon after; the firm then changed to Sawyer & Ames; afterward to Pittman & Sawyer, which continued till May, 1870, when he sold out to Mr. McWilliams; in September, 1870, the firm of Sawyer & Favor was established. He was married July 1, 1865, to Anna M. Prescott; she was born in New Hampshire; they have one daughter.

 


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