Henry D. Sawyer
Henry D. Sawyer, farmer, P. O. Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, July 4, 1838, son of Asa [baptized October 10, 1802] and Caroline A. (Lincoln) Sawyer. His paternal grandfather, Asa Sawyer, was a native of Massachusetts, who settled here in 1818 on the farm now owned and occupied by A. J. Shuman, where he resided until his death in 1845. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Luke A. Lincoln, the first resident physician of Brimfield Township, this county, having settled in 1820. Asa Sawyer, the father of our subject, settled on the farm now occupied by his widow, which he cleared and improved and on which he lived until his death. He died November 4, 1881, at the age of seventy-nine years. Our subject, with his mother, resides on the old homestead, where he was born and reared and has always followed farming as an occupation. He served in the late war of the Rebellion, enlisting in August, 1861, in Company L,, Second Ohio Cavalry, and was honorably discharged in 1865, having participated in all the engagements in which his regiment took part, except the last battle of Richmond. He is a member of the G. A. R.; in politics a Democrat.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885