Biography

09/20/1772 - 05/05/1837

John Sawyer, Jr. (D6) Dauphin and Lebanon Counties 1818-1822

Early Life:

John Sawyer, Jr., born September 20, 1772, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; son of John Sawyer, Sr. and Jean “Jane” Allen Sawyer; rural education; engaged farming; married, Mary Bell Sawyer, 1809, children John Sawyer, Mary Bell Sawyer Elson, Benjamin Sawyer, William Sawyer, Eleanor Sawyer Barnes; private, War of 1812; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1815-1817; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1818-1822; died, May 5, 1837 (aged 64 years, 7 months and 15 days), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interment, Old Hanover Presbyterian Churchyard, Grantville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1815-1817.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate,6^th district, Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, 1818-1822.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

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Legacy:

Inscription: SACRED to the Memory of JOHN SAWYER, who departed this life May 5th, 1837, aged 64 years, 7 months and 15 days.

Cited:

Historical Sketch of Old Hanover Reverend Thomas H. Robinson, D.D., ‪Dauphin County Historical Society, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1878, page 26 and 41.

Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, J. M. Runk and Company, 1896, page 138.

The Papers and Addresses of the Lebanon County Historical, Lebanon Co., Pennsylvania, Lebanon County Historical, Volume 2, 1904, page 364.

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