Ohio Biographies



Victor P. Sawyer


Victor P. Sawyer, farmer, P. O. Brimfield, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, September 12, 1848, son of Uriah and Caroline (Pike) Sawyer. His paternal grandfather was Uriah Sawyer, a native of Massachusetts, who settled in this township in 1817. His maternal grandfather, Jeremy Pike, also a native of Massachusetts, settled here in 1820. Uriah, the father of our subject, when he started in life for himself, settled on Lot 20, Brimfield Township, where he cleared and improved the farm now owned by George Tritt, and there resided up to 1860, when he removed to the farm now owned by our subject, where he lived until his death. He died November 2, 1881, aged seventy-one years. His children were Adelaide R. (deceased), and Victor P. Our subject was married September 27, 1870, to Eunice S., daughter of William R. and Lucy (Sawyer) Kelso, of Brimfield Township, by whom he has two children: Lucy C. and Addie C. Mr. Sawyer is a member of the Universalist Church. In politics he is a Democrat.

 

From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

 


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