Background
Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway was born on November 16, 1849 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Ann Maria (Dillaway) Sawyer.
Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway was born on November 16, 1849 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Ann Maria (Dillaway) Sawyer.
Graduate Chauncey Hall School, Boston, 1867. Student Massachusetts Institute Technology.
Dry goods commission merchant, New York and Boston, many years, as member East. R. Mudge, Sawyer & Company, Sawyer, Burt & Manning, and Sawyer, Manning & Company. With Joseph Sawyer, Senior. Imported the first Lister combers that ever arrived in America, enabling the Washington Mills, at Lawrence, Massachusetts, to manufacturer the first piece of worsted goods in America.
Suggested uniforming the police force throughout the country as well as all other official employes, and first manufactured cloth for this purpose, supplying it for many years.
Largely identified with real estate development on Long Island Sound, in Long Island and Connecticut Author: How to Make a Country Place, 1914. The Pilgrim Spirit as Portrayed in the Plymouth Pageant of 1921, 1921.
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, Their Ancestry and Descendants, 3 volumes, 1922. Washington (biography of George Washington), 2 volumes, 1927.
Home: Stamford, Connecticut
Member East. R. Mudge, Sawyer & Company
Married Mary Locke Wiggin, June 10, 1872.