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Sawyer county is named for Philetus Sawyer, a New
England man who represented Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives and
U.S. Senate in the 19th century. Logging began in the late 1850s. Loggers came
from Cortland County, New York, Carroll County, New Hampshire, Orange County,
Vermont, and Down East Maine in what is now Washington County, Maine and Hancock
County, Maine. These were "Yankee" migrants, that is to say they were descended
from the English Puritans who had settled New England during the 1600s. They
were mostly members of the Congregational Church. After the trees were all cut
down, the land was sold for farms and many resorts sprang up on the numerous
lakes. Lumbering and tourism are still the major industries of Sawyer County.
Sawyer County was created in 1883 from parts of the Chippewa and Ashland
counties and organized in 1885. In the 1890s immigrants came from a variety of
countries such as Germany, Norway, Poland, Ireland and Sweden.
Its county seat is Hayward. The county partly overlaps with the reservation of
the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
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We would like to thank ALL of our previous County Coordinators and Look up Volunteers for all of the work you put into these pages. Our volunteers are what make this project a success! These people: Carol Anderson, Debbie Barrett, Jim Bassett, Patricia Claussen, Don Cook, Karen Duffy, Larry Friend, Jane Embrose, Robin Fadness, Michael Golob, Susan Goodman, Bob Hagen, Robin Helman, Mike Henderson, Dawn Herrick, Sue Hallberg Hoyt, Jan Lynn, Kathleen Martin, Monica Odani, Jim Preston, Peggy Rogers, Michael Rooney, Jeff Scharlau, Sylvia Schmit, Timm Severud, Tom Snyder, Stone Lake Area Historical Society, Kim Sykes, Becky (Roppe) Szozda, Dr. S.A. Theriault, Norman Tribbett, Lisa Warren, Michelle Tatro-Weaver and Shirley Wikrent have helped us make Sawyer County WI a GREAT genealogy website. THANK YOU!!