San Francisco County
FRANK WALLACE SAWYER
FRANK WALLACE SAWYER, of the law firm of Wood
& Sawyer of Oakland, was born in Westfield, Orleans county, Vermont, June
12, 1864, a son of Louis and Lucinda (Hoyt) Sawyer, both now living near Lake
City, Modoc county, California. The
mother, born in Vermont in 1841, of American parentage, is probably of American
descent for several generations. The
father, born in Canada, in 1835, settled with his parents on a farm in Vermont,
and was there married. The ancestral
French name was soon transformed by their American neighbors to Sawyer, which
this branch of the family has thus been led to adopt as its surname. Grandfather Sawyer, by occupation a farmer,
lived to an advanced age, dying in Vermont.
His wife survived him and was over seventy at her death nearly twenty
years ago.
Louis
and Lucinda Sawyer are the parents of five children, all born in Vermont:
Chauncey L., the oldest, died at the age of twenty-five, leaving a widow, nee
Martin, and two children, Isadora and Orrin, the later being since about 1876 a
member of the grandparents’ (Sawyer) household; Florence Elizabeth, married in
Vermont to Henry A. Woods, now a rancher in Modoc county, California; Almond,
also a rancher of that county, and there married to Miss Belle Willis, a native
of Iowa, has one child, a daughter; Frank W., the subject of this sketch;
Sanford Sawyer, a carpenter and builder in Lake City. Of these Almond and Florence E., with her
husband, Mr. Woods, came to California in 1881, and settled in Modoc county. In 1884 the
parents with their other two sons and grandson followed, and settled in the
same country, the father being now chiefly engaged in the fruit-raising
industry near
Frank
W. Sawyer, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the district
Transcribed by Donna L.
Becker.
Source: “The Bay of San
Francisco,” Vol. 2, Pages 651-652,
Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.