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SMITH SAWYER, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 19; P. O. Towanda; one of the old settlers; born in Fayette Co., Ohio, Oct. 2, 1816, where he was raised to farm labor until 21 years of age; he was then employed some four years buying and herding cattle, after which he engaged in the same business upon his own account, buying and driving to market in Ohio. About the year 1858, he located permanently in McLean Co., and for eight years was in the employ of Judge David Davis; in 1853, he purchased from the Government, eighty acres of his present place, at $2.50 per acre; a few years later, he purchased eighty acres more, and now owns 160 acres, with good buildings, all of which he has accumulated by his own exertion. His first wife was Eleanor Bunn; she died without children. His second wife was Clarissa Misner; she died, leaving one child — Albert — who died in Douglas Co., Kan., of brain fever, at 22 years of age. His marriage with Mrs. Susan Whitty was celebrated in December, 1873; she was born in Clark Co., Ill.; they have two children by this union — Theodore and Nellie. Republican.