WI BIO - Lafayette Co - SAWTELL, Edwin

History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 
751

Edwin SAWTELL, farmer, Section 32 [White Oak Springs Township, Lafayette 
County, Wisconsin], P. O. White Oak Springs, was born 02 May 1829 in Erie 
County, Pennsylvania. In 1834 he came with his parents to Chicago [Cook 
County, Illinois], thence to Ohio. In 1840 he came to Boone County, 
Illinois, and in 1842 he removed to White Oak Springs [Territory of] 
Wisconsin. In 1850 he went to California, engaged in mining and 
merchandising until 1853, and then returned to White Oak Springs, where he 
has since lived. He owns eighty acres of land.

In 1852 he [Edwin SAWTELL] married [Miss?] Mary J. NEVILLE, who was born in 
1833 in Scales Mound, Jo Daviess County [Illinois]; she is the niece of 
Colonel James COLLINS. They [Edwin and Mary J. SAWTELL] have ten children, 
six sons and four daughters. Mr. SAWTELL has been Justice of the Peace for 
the past twenty-seven years, and has been Assessor and Township Clerk about 
fifteen years.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly