Charles Edmund Sawyer

Charles was the son of a machinist, Edmund Sawyer, of Boston, Ma. Charles worked for Dennison Brothers, a paper products manufacture, as superintendent of their Perkins factory. He inherited his father's mechanical skills as he is praised in a memorial of the company by Eliphalet Whorf Dennison "The Dennison Mfg Co." as designing the process and equipment for their "shipping-tag" which was a key product for the company for forty five years. They were fairly well to do as the 1880 census shows they had two live-in serventants Kate Campbell and Millie Smith. Charles sister Eliza R. Sawyer also lived with them.

They were able to attend the nations centennial in Philadelphia. I know this because of a note I found in a souvenir Vase I inherited.

Charles became ill and retired to Harvard, Ma. In 1895 he purchased land from his wife's, parents at 12 Woodchuck Road and built his dream house.

"My fathers Dream House" note, by my grand father Joseph Kendall Sawyer, on back of picture

He died there on Oct 2, 1904.

Charles Edmund Sawyer Obituary -- Turner Public Spirit

Charles E. Sawyer, a retired business man of great capabilities, for years connected with the Dennison manufacturing company of Boston, as one of their foremost mangers, died at his home on Oakhill of heart failure, Sunday, Oct. 2. Although a man of retiring nature, due to his feeble health, he was a very fine conversationalist and one who made a friend of every one he came in contact with. His wide acquaintance with the business world furnished a topic for intercourse with all classes. His death was sudden, although not all together unexpected as he had been quite feeble for the past year. This community at once feels that it has lost a man whose place cannot be readily filled. He was sixty seven years of age.

Funeral services were held at the house, Wednesday, Rev. Dr. Plumb of Roxbury officiating. The Weber male quartet of Boston sang. The flowers were grand, several large pieces being sent from the deceased friends in the business world. The body was placed in the vault, from whence it will be removed Sunday with appropriate exercise and placed in the Bellevue cemetery.

After Charles death Sarah moved to Lyons, Il to live with her second oldest son Herbert. In 1925 she moved to Glen Ellyn, Il and lived with her youngest son Webster. She died in Glen Ellyn on Nov. 13, 1930.

Sawyer Familly Plot Bellevue Cemetery Harvard, MA
Charles Edmund, Sarah Willard and Carrie Louise Sawyer