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> The Nevada County Nugget 7
e of Nevada County
Shed in 1924 -W.B. Lardner
WILLIAM P. SAWYER, M.D,
Prominent among the most distinguished representatives of
the medical profession in Nevada County, Dr. William P. Sawyer,
the popular physician and surgeon of Nevada City, has been able to
exercise a most helpful influence in favor of progress along many
lines connected with the welfare and happiness of the human race.
A native of the great Empire State, that has so long contributed
some of the most efficient settlers in the Golden State, he was born
at Gasport, Niagara County, N. Y., on March 8, 1864, the son of John
P. and Hannah (Parsons) Sawyer, both New Yorkers, and received
his early education in the public schools of Lockport and Rochester,
N. Y., getting there an excellent foundation for his future sutdies
and work. .
Having chosen medicine as his field, Mr. Sawyer was
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with the class of
1891, when he received the coveted M. D. degree; and two years
later he came out to California. He made a tour of the State, to
acquaint himself with the resources of the commonwealth, and
finally decided to hang out his shingle in Grass Valley, where he
remained for a year, building up an interesting practice from the
start. About 1895 he came to Nevada City, where he has ever since
practiced his profession with growing favor. In 1908 Dr. Sawyer
took a post graduate course in Philadelphia, making a specialty of
' the eye, ear, nose and throat, and today he is a member of the
County, State and National Medical Societies.
At Nevada City, in the year 1908, Dr. Sawyer was married to
Miss Helen Ransom, who was born near San J uan, Nevada County,
the daughter of Edgar B. and Helen M. (Cummings) Ransom. The
parents came separately to California by way of the Isthmus in
early days, and the father mined in the Smartville district. Edgar
B. Ransom was born in Chazy, N. Y., in 1833. Helen M. Cummings
was born at Thetford, Vt., in 1841. They both grew up in their native
States, one on the west side of Lake Champlain, and the other
across in Eastern Vermont. They met each other for the first time
in Nevada County, where they were married, and where thay lived
very happily ever afterwards. Three children have been born to Dr.
and Mrs. Sawyer, Dorothy, Miriam and Gertrude, all of school age.
During the World War, Dr. Sawyer was on the local examining
board, and afte war, he was on the Federal Examining Board for
disabled soldiers. He is a trustee of the Carnegie Free Public
Library of Nevada City. Fraternally, he belongs to Milo Lodge No.
48, Knights of Pythias, of Nevada City, and to Nevada City Lodge
No. 518, B.P.0O.E.