For a brief period around 1884-1885, Charles A. Sawyer manufactured water motors, engine lathes, drill presses, and scrollsaws.
Information Sources
- Drew, Allis & Co.'s The Worcester Almanac, Directory and Business Advertiser, 1884. C. A. Sawyer & Co. ad "speed lathes"
- A couple of patents provide Sawyer's first name.
- A book, In memoriam, Charles B. Sawyer and Elizabeth E. T. Sawyer, 1902, by Charles Adrian Sawyer, may or may not be by the same man. It says,
It was during the temporary residence in Boston that the son, and only child, Charles Adrian, was born (Dorchester, December 6, 1854). He was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876, studied law and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879. In more recent years he was associated with his father in real estate, and is now engaged in the care of the large property which descended to him on the death of his parents. ...