Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1900 — SAWYER IS NO MORE. [ARTICLE]

SAWYER IS NO MORE.

Former United States Senator from ' Wisconsin Expires. £ Former Senator Philetns Sawyer died Thursday morning at Oshkosh, Wis. He had been suffering from a complication of troubles. The Senator was years old. Philetqs Sawyer was born in 1816 in Rutland County, Vermont, and he spent hih boyhood on bis father's farm in Crowu Point, N. Y. His spooling consisted of a few terms in n district school, and at 17 he went to work in the pineries of the Adirondacks as a woodsman and sawmill hand. In 1841 he married Malvina M. Hadley, and in 1847, with $2,200 in his pocket, he went' to Fond du Luc, Wis. Not fancying his surroundings he moved two years later to Algoma, which stood on the present site of Oshkosh. He rented a sawmill that had not been paying expenses, operated it at a profit, and afterward purchased the mill. Thenceforward he became a factor in the growth of upper Wisconsin. Originally a free-soil Democrat, Mr. Sawyer joined the Republican party upon its organization. His first political office was aiderman of the city of Oshkosh. In 1856 and 1860 he wont tuthe Assembly. In 1863 and 1864 he was Mayor ' of Oshkosh, and in the latter year was elected to Congress, serving for ten consecutive years. In he was elected j to the United States Senate and re-elect-I ed six years later.