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Sawyer, Susan C. (1839-1899)

Name:
Sawyer, Susan C. (1839-1899)
Title:
N.H. First Lady, 1887-1889
Member, First Church, Dover
President, Woman's Auxiliary, Y.M.C.A.
Regent, Dover Chapter of the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Member, Colonial Dames of America
Other Names:
Cowan, Susan Ellen
Born:
08/13/1839
Birthplace:
Dover, NH
Died:
04/20/1899
Death Location:
Boston, MA
Residence:
Dover, NH
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Husband: Charles Henry Sawyer (1840-1909) ran Sawyer Woolen Mills, Dover, N.H.; Gov. of N.H., 1887-89
Father:
Cowan, James Wellington (1814-1848)
Mother:
Hodgdon, Elizabeth (1818-1888)
Relations:
Grandparents: Susan Coffin and William Hodgdon
Great-grandparents: Elizabeth Twombley and Caleb Hodgdon (1732-1814; Major, N.H. Militia)
Spouse:
Sawyer, Charles Henry (1840-1909), February 8. 1865
Children:
William Davis, born 1866; died 1922
Charles Francis, born 1869; died 1938
James Cowan, born 1872; died 1944; m. Mary Pepperrell Frost, 2 sons, George F. and Charles H.
Edward, born 1874; died 1924
Elizabeth Coffin, born 1880; died 1980; ran a dairy farm, Durham, NH
Notes:
SEE ALSO: Cowan, Susan
SEE ALSO (mother): Hodgdon, Elizabeth / Cowan, Elizabeth
SEE ALSO (father): Cowan, James W.
SEE ALSO (father-in-law): Sawyer, Jonathan
SEE ALSO (husband): Sawyer, Charles Henry (1)
SEE ALSO (son): Sawyer, James Cowan
SEE ALSO (grandson): Sawyer, Charles H. (2)
SEE ALSO (grandson): Sawyer, George F.

Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
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