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H. W. Sawyer
Hon. H. W. Sawyer, attorney at law and County Judge elect, Hartford; is the son of Hiram and Barbara A. (Wilson) Sawyer; was born in Haverhill, Grafton Co., N. H., June 11, 1843, his parents being also natives of New Hampshire. In 1846, when only 3 years of age, he came, with his parents, to Wisconsin. The family located on a farm in the town of Burnett, Dodge Co., which the father had entered or purchased of the Government the year previous (1845). H. W. received his education in the common schools, and at the Beaver Dam University; he commenced the study of law in the office of Lewis & Fribert, of Juneau, and subsequently pursued his studies in the office of E. P. Smith, of Beaver Dam; he was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court of Dodge Co. in January, 1867, and soon after to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. In November, 1867, he established himself in practice at Hartford. He was married at Hartford, Sept. 28, 1870, to Miss Josephine B. Coxe, daughter of Judge Hopewell and Amelia Coxe. Mrs. Saywer was born in Hartford; they have four children-Elmo W., H. Arthur, Elsie A. and Hattie. The Judge has 680 acres of land lying partly in Michigan and partly in Wisconsin. He was elected a member of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1873 and 1874, and was elected Judge of the County Court of Washington Co. in the spring of 1881, for the term beginning Jan. 1, 1882.
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"History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin," published in 1881 by Western Historical Company.