admin GEORGE PLINY SAWYER, son of James Denison Sawyer, was born in Buffalo, attended Prof. Briggs’ Classical School, subsequently graduating from Yale University in 1872. He then engaged in the lumber business in Buffalo until 1905. He was a director of the Mutual Gas Light Company until that concern was absorbed by the Buffalo Gas Company, and also served as a director of White’s Bank, which later became the American Exchange Bank. Mr. Sawyer was among the organizers of the movement, which resulted in the erection of the Ellicott Square Building, and is at the present time a director of the Ellicott Square Company.
Mr. Sawyer is a trustee and one of the founders of the Charity Organization Society, a director of the Fine Arts Academy, a member of the Buffalo, Country, University and Ellicott clubs, and of the University Club of New York City, and Graduates’ Club in New Haven.
In 1874 Mr. Sawyer married Ida Maria Wilcox, a daughter of Daniel Hand Wilcox and Frances Ansley of New Haven, Conn.
The children of the union are: James Denison, Margaret Field and Ansley Wilcox. A daughter, Chloe, died in 1880.
James Denison Sawyer, the second of the name, was graduated from Yale University in 1896. He resides in New York City, where he is sales manager of the American Locomotive Company. In 1904 he married Sallie Shannon Walsh of St. Louis. They have one son, James Denison Sawyer, who was born in 1905.
Margaret Field Sawyer resides at the family home in Buffalo. Ansley Wilcox Sawyer is a student at Yale University, belonging to the Class of 1907.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I