Francis L. Sawyer
Francis L. Sawyer, Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, July 11, 1831, son of Asa and Caroline A. (Lincoln) Sawyer. His father was a native of Berlin, Mass., son of Asa and Eunice (Bruce) Sawyer, who settled in Brimfield Township, this county, in 1818, where they lived and died, and who had nine children: Levi, now in Iowa; Asa, deceased; William, deceased; Alvin, deceased; Sophia, deceased; Lucy (Mrs. W. R. Kelso); Mary, deceased; Sarah (Mrs. A. J. Shuman), and Luke, deceased. Asa, the father of our subject, after his marriage located on the farm in Brimfield Township, this county, now occupied by his widow, where he lived until his death. He had four children: Francis L., Mary (deceased), Ellen and Henry. The maternal grandparents of our subject were Dr. Luke and Mary (Thorndike) Lincoln, formerly of Massachusetts and early settlers of Brimfield Township, this county, coming in 1820. Our subject was reared in Brimfield Township and educated in the common schools and Twinsburg Academy. When twenty-two years of age he located in Kent, serving as clerk in the dry goods store of C. H. Sanborn & Co. for two years, and in the same capacity for other parties up to 1857, when he went to Iowa. In 1858 he returned to Kent and embarked in dry goods trade. In 1860 he was elected Auditor of this county, serving one term, after which he engaged with the A. & G. W. R. R. Co. for three years; also as clerk in the store of W. W. Patton & Co. He was then appointed Postmaster of Kent, serving two years, when he resigned. He was married in February, 1857, to Margaret C, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth McMeen, of Brimfield Township, by whom he has three children living: Nellie M. (Mrs. O. S. Rockwell), Willis F. and Carrie.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885