148 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



SECRETARY'S PORTFOLIO. 



GEORGE B. SAWYER. 



After a residence of more than forty years in Wiscasset, 

 George B. Sawyer, Esq., died at his home September 19, 1903. 

 ''Wiscasset," says the Sheepscot Echo, ''loses a citizen who has 

 been prominent in its business and official life and who was well 

 known throughout the State." 



George B. Sawyer was born in Henniker, N. H., February 

 28, 1834, son of Jacob and Laura (Bartlett) Sawyer. His 

 ancestry on the maternal side is said to be traced from Sir Adam 

 Barttelot, who entered England with William the Conqueror. 



George B. Sawyer acquired his early education in the public 

 schools of Manchester, N. H. His preliminary training for 

 active life included employment in printing offices, and in after 

 life he often referred to that experience as having been of great 

 benefit to him in an educational way. At the age of twenty-one 

 he began the study of law with the Hon. John X. Goodwin, of 

 South Berwick, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in York 

 county in his twenty-fifth year. In the same year he was 

 admitted to practice in the United States District Court, at 

 Portsmouth, and at a later date in the United States Court of 

 Claims at Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Sawyer first located himself for practice in his profession 

 at Salmon Falls, N. H., and in the fall of 1859 he removed to 

 Waldoboro, in this county, where he practiced in partnership 

 with the late Gov. S. S. Marble until April 1862, when he was 

 appointed to the office of clerk of courts for Lincoln county, and 

 came to reside in Wiscasset. He continued in that office until 

 January, 1878. On retiring from office Mr. Sawyer resumed 

 the practice of law, in which he continued until his decease. 



He held other public offices: During the administrations of 

 Presidents Garfield, Arthur and Harrison he was the collector 



