Fiegenbaum, George Adolph

Other Events:

• Census: May 1870, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
• Census: Jul 1870, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA
• Education: Between 1873 and 1878, Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA; at Iowa Wesleyan University
• Occupation: Between 1880 and 1896, Missouri, USA; a physician
• Census: Jun 1880, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Census:

     According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of Henry, age 50, a minister; Clara, age 47, at home; Mary, age 19, at home; Carri, age 17, at home; George, age 16, a clerk; Anna, age 13, at home; Minnie, age 11, at home; Legette, age 9, at home; Louis Deitch, age 26, a dry goods merchant; and Mike Connelly, age 22, a clerk.

Census:

     According to the 1870 enumeration, the household consisted of Henry, age 50, clergyman of the Methodist church, and a citizen of the USA; Clara, age 46, keeping house; Mary, age 20, blind; Carrie, age 17; George, age 15, in school; Anna, age 13, in school; Minnie, age 11, in school; and Lizzetta, age 8, in school.

Education:

     George entered Iowa Wesleyan University (known as Iowa Wesleyan College since 1912) in 1873 and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1878. He was a member of the Philomathean Literary Society and the Iowa Alpha Chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. George was also a graduate of the nearby Mt. Pleasant German College, affiliated with the German branch of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     In 1880, after receiving his M.D degree from the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College, at St. Joseph, Missouri, George also received an A.M. degree from Iowa Wesleyan University.

Occupation:

     The following biographical sketch was published in History of Holt and Atchison Counties, Missouri, containing a History of These Counties, Their Cities, Towns, etc., etc., Biographical Sketches of Their Citizens.... (St. Joseph, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1882):

     "Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum, A. M. of the firm of Goslin & Fiegenbaum, physicians and surgeons, was born in Galena, Illinois, January 1, 1855. His father, Henry H. Fiegenbaum, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and his mother, whose maiden name was Clara C. Kastenbutt, was from Hanover, Germany. The former was an itinerant minister in the German M. E. Church, and consequently made various moves. He went with his family to Wapello, Iowa, in 1860, then to Pekin, Illinois, in 1864, thence to Quincy, Illinois, in 1867, and in 1870 to St. Joseph, Missouri. George now started out on his own account by first engaging himself as clerk in a mercantile establishment. In the fall of 1873 he moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and took a classical course at the Iowa Wesleyan University and a theological course at the German Wesleyan College, attending the two colleges together. After five years study he was graduated in June, 1878, with the degree of A. B. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Ray Beattie, and in the fall of 1878 he attended his first course of lectures at the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College. By the removal of Dr. Beattie to South America Mr. F. was obliged to choose another preceptor, which he found in the person of Dr. T. H. Doyle, of St. Joseph. He graduated in the spring of 1880, and that same year the Wesleyan University conferred upon him the degree of A. M. In July, 1880, he came to Oregon and formed a partnership with Dr. Goslin, In the spring of 1882 he received the appointment of physician of Holt County. Dr. F. is a member of the Medical Society of Northwest Missouri. He was married in October, 1880, to Miss Anna B. Brodick, daughter of the Rev. I. A. Brodick, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. She was born in Burlington, Iowa, on the 16th of August, 1856. She is an active member of the Woman's Union of Oregon."

     From at least 1889 to 1894, George practiced medicine at 702 North 16th Street, Omaha, Nebraska.

Census:

     According to the 1880 enumeration, the household, living on 4th Street, in St. Joseph, consisted of Henry Fiegenbaum, age 60, married, minister; Clara, age 56, wife, married, keeping house; Mary, age 29, daughter, single,at home; George, age 25, son, single, doctor; Annie, age 23, daughter, single, at home; Minnie, age 20, daughter, single, at home; and Lizzette, age 18, daughter, single, at home.
     According to records of his marriage in October 1880, George A. Fiegenbaum was identified as a resident of Oregon, Missouri.

Buried:
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon at the home of his parents, 1123 North Fifth Street, St. Joseph, Missouri. He was buried in Ashland Cemetery.

Died:

     Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts provided the following transcription of an obituary for George Adolph Fiegenbaum.

St. Joseph Daily News, Tuesday, 28 April 1896: Dr. George Fiegenbaum died last night at St. Joseph's Hospital. He had not tasted food or drink for ten days and would have starved to death had it not been for an air operation performed on him last Sunday. The unfortunate man was afflicted with a throat trouble, a stricture of the esophagus, that had been growing for a year. Dr. Fiegenbaum was educated in St. Joseph and graduated from a medical college here. He has been practicing during the last fifteen years, lately at Oklahoma City, where he located several years ago. He is a son of the Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum of 1123 North Fifth Street and will be buried from the home of his parents at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The cause of his death was a most peculiar one and baffled the skill of some of the greatest physicians in the United States. When he was first afflicted, Dr. Fiegenbaum sought relief by going to some of the best physicians in Chicago. Attempts were made there and by physicians in this city to dilate the esophagus with a tube, but it was found to be an impossibility. Ten days ago it became so bad that he could not swallow food and since then he had eaten nothing. He was slowly starving to death and as he lay in the hospital he begged the physicians to go on with the contemplated operation. There was no hope of saving his life, but he would be saved from death from starvation, and the operation was performed. "Do anything to save me from starvation and this burning thirst," said Dr. Fiegenbaum to the physicians attending him. He knew there was no hope of saving his life. The stomach was opened and food and water were placed in it. The operation was successful and if it had been performed months ago, the man's life might have been saved. He died peacefully and without suffering, and a post mortem examination of his body was made today. It was found that the esophagus and windpipe had a common opening and that the patient had strangled to death. The lungs were filled with saliva and everything that had been swallowed by him for several days -- in fact everything that went down his throat went into the lungs instead of the stomach. Before he died Dr. Fiegenbaum asked one of his friends to do him a favor, "After I am dead," he said, "and a post mortem examination has been had, I want you to take radishes and lettuce and things that look cooling and good and after mixing them with cracked ice, fill the abdominal cavity. I know it will do me no good, for I will be dead, but there is a satisfaction in knowing that it can be done and that the burning thirst will be allayed." For days before he died the sufferer was in untold agony on account of his thirst that almost drove him wild. His throat was closed and he could take no nourishment of any kind. When water could be taken a drop at a time it went into his lungs only increasing his suffering. Through it all he was patient and while he knew the end was near, he had a horror of starving to death. The unfortunate man who died was born at Galena, Illinois in 1835 and came with his parents to this state when a child. The Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum was Presiding Elder of the German Methodist Episcopal Church here for many years and has been a minister of the gospel for more than forty years. Dr. Fiegenbaum was educated at a college in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was graduated with high honors. He afterwards attended the St. Joseph Hospital and Medical College, where he was graduated. He began the practice of medicine at Oregon, Holt, Missouri about fifteen years ago, and afterwards removed to Omaha where he practiced for five years. Since then he has been practicing medicine in Oklahoma. A wife and two children are left by Dr. Fiegenbaum. His wife was a Miss Bradrick of Mount Pleasant, Iowa and they became acquainted while he was attending college there. His parents are both living and he has four sisters all of whom are living. The sisters are Mrs. J. C. Steinmetz of this city, wife of a bookkeeper for the Turner-Frazer Mercantile Company; Miss Anna Fiegenbaum with the Townsend and Wyatt Dry Goods Company; Miss Mary Fiegenbaum who lives at home, and Mrs. Thomas Curry, wife of the editor of the Oregon Sentinel. The deceased was a member of the Woodman and other lodges at Oklahoma City. All the immediate relatives are in the city and were with Dr. Fiegenbaum when he died. The deceased was a large man and was in good health before he became afflicted with throat trouble. He was well known all over this part of the state and had many friends in St. Joseph and the surrounding country. He will be buried at Ashland Cemetery in St. Joseph.

     The following obituary was published in The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri) on Friday, 1 May 1896.

          Death of Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum

     The dark lines of great grief rest upon all this community this week, and The Sentinel will, with painful reluctance carry it to the heart of many in the announcement that Dr. George A. Fiegenbaum, passed over the river into the great unknown beyond on Monday evening last, April 27, 1896, at the age of 41 years, his death occuring [sic] at St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph, Mo., from stricture of the esophagus. For fifteen months the deceased had been an invalid from stricture of the esophagus, and his affliction came to him while a resident of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and so great was his suffering that he was compelled to abandon his practice and seek treatment in St. Joseph and Chicago. His physicians as well as kind and attentive friends did all in their power to bring about his recovery. As a last resort, after an exhaustive consultation with leading specialists and his physician, it was decided the only chance was to submit to an operation, and as a consequence the patient was removed from the home of his father, Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum, of St. Joseph, to St. Joseph's hospital where the patient was prepared and on Sunday, April 26th, his physicians, took charge of the patient and the operation was skilfully [sic] performed and was a success in every particular. The patient had been unable to take the proper nurishment [sic] for so long that he was greatly weakened, from the time of the operation, he was doing well until attacked by a spasm of coughing, which produced strangulations and from that time he continued growing weaker and weaker, until Monday evening he sank into that "sleep that knows no waking."
     He was born in Galena, Illinois, January 1, 1855. His father, Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum, now of St. Joseph, was a native of Prussia, Germany, and his mother, was a Miss Clara C. Kastenbudt, from Hanover. George went with his parents to Wapello, Iowa, in 1860, then to Pekin, Illinois, in 1864, thence to Quincy, Illinois, in 1867, and 1870 to St. Joseph. From St. Joseph Rev. Fiegenbaum was removed to Oregon, where he was stationed for three years, during which time the subject of this sketch was taking his collegiate course. The deceased began life at this time for himself by clerking in a mercantile establishment. In the fall of 1873 he went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he took a classical course at the Iowa Wesleyan University. In June 1878, he graduated with high honors, the degree of A. B. being conferred. In 1877 he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Ray Beattie, and in the fall of 1878 he attended his first course of lectures at the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College. By the removal of Dr. Beattie to South America, the deceased was obliged to choose another preceptor, which he found in the person of Dr. T. H. Doyle, of St. Joseph. He graduated in the spring of 1880, and that same year the Wesleyan University conferred upon him the degree of A. M. In July 1880, he came to Oregon and formed a partnership with Dr. Goslin, and during this partnership he was appointed county physician, this was in 1882. He was married in October 1880, to Miss Anna B. Bradrick, a daughter of Rev. I. A. Bradrick, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and by this union three children were born, two now living, aged seven and three years respectively, who with their mother survive. In our half century journey on this earth, never have we seen a husband and wife live so devotedly for each other as the deceased and his now broken hearted wife. Love was supreme with them, hence their home was what "two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one," could possibly make it here on this earth. His venerable parents and four sisters are also left to mourn his loss. -- The sisters are Mrs. J. C. Steinmetz, of St. Joe, wife of a bookkeeper for the Nave & McCord Mercantile Company, Miss Anna Fiegenbaum, with the Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods Company, Miss Mary Fiegenbaum, who lives at home, and Mrs. Tom Curry, of Oregon. The deceased was a member of the Woodmen and Redmen lodges at Oklahoma City. All the immediate relatives were in the city and were with Dr. Fiegenbaum when he died.
     In the solemn presence of death love should be modest in its praise, and silence lay its finger upon the lips of flattery. Our friend was not faultless. He had weakenesses [sic] and imperfections; who of us have none? But under the blessed common law of love, death always pushes faults and frailties out of sight and memory touches with brighter color every virtue and living trait of character. We might speak of his loyal, passionate love of home, of the dear ones there; we might speak of his loyal constancy in friendship, but you who knew him have felt the warm grasp of that dead hand. We might dwell on his open-handed generosity, but we believe that is known to us all. We could talk of his long and heavy suffering, but we, who have been close to him know of all this, and so our thoughts and feelings and memories are more eloquent than any words we may write.
     Now let us speak of the solemn significance of life which the presence of death always suggests, even to the least thoughtful. Especially do we remember, now, these words of scripture, "in the midst of life we are death."
     But dear reader of The Sentinel remember this. No man holds a moment's lease of life. And yet life is full of jealousies, resentments, envyings and bitterness. Little words and acts have caused estrangement among those who ought to love each other. Some day you mean to be generous and forgiving. Some day you mean to take the hand you have not clasped for years. But that day may never come to you. "Now is the accepted time." Now is the time for reconciliation, for the offices of love, for the blessed ministry of forgiveness, for sweet charity, the hour of true penitence. You are waiting for tomorrow. But the curtain may be rung down upon the last act of your life today.
     Dr. Fiegenbaum had many admirable traits of character; no higher tribute could be paid to any man than to say he was incorruptible; his views may not have been right; they may not have been popular; they might even have given pain to those whom his every wish was to have saved this pain, but he was honest in his views and this honesty was steadfast to the truth as he saw it; he hated shams, despised hypocrisy, and had no patience with affectation or shallow pretense; always sincere, always thoughtful, he fully realized the imperfections of life and the short-comings of humanity; he pitied and was silent; he had faith, but that faith was not in forms or set theories, but that highest and abiding faith in the love of the Creator of Love; he was heroic in facing the end; patient and kind to all during his affliction, so that in his presence no one was aware of the mental and physical struggle he waged against pain; of fine intellect, finely developed, he was yet so retiring in disposition that only those who were closet to him insensibly were made aware of the man's remarkable ability; his mind was a great storehouse of knowledge and facts which never escaped him.
     All who became well acquainted with George Fiegenbaum liked him, for he was generous, kind hearted, true to his home and loved ones and friends; sympathetic in his nature, and was always ready to do a favor or a kindness to others if in his power. There was so much of these in his nature that endeared him to a great number, and his memory will be cherished by the many who have been made sad by his death.
     Short funeral services were conducted from the family residence at 2 p.m. last Wednesday afternoon, by Rev. C. H. Harmes, pastor of the German M. E. church, St. Joseph, and by Elder J. Tanner, of Lincoln, Nebraska, a former pastor of the deceased, after which the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in Ashland cemetery, St. Joseph, to await the final resurrection.
     Friends and relatives from a distance were in attendance to pay their last sad tribute of respect and love, and telegrames [sic] of condolence were also received from dear ones in far away countries. Rev. I. A. Bradrick and wife, of Chicago, the venerable father and mother of the bereaved wife were present.

     The following notice was published in World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) on Friday, 1 May 1896.

Dr. Fiegenbaum Dies

     Dr. George Fiegenbaum, who died Monday in a hospital in St. Joseph of stricture of the aesophagus, after submitting to an operation intended to enable him to avoid a death by starvation, lived in Omaha between Chicago and Davenport, also in the Brown Block, and was for a while connected with the Whitehouse pharmacy. He was of a retiring disposition and, while a man of ability, did not do well here, and left Omaha for Oklahoma, where he resided until illness overtook him and he went to Chicago for the operation, then to St. Joseph.

     This notice appeared in the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin; Volume 9, Number 20 (May 16, 1896), page 681.

     Dr. Geo. A. Fiegenbaum at the St. Joseph Hospital in St. Joseph, Mo., on April 29. He had been troubled for 18 months with stricture of the esophagus, and had gone to the hospital to undergo an operation. The post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that the esophagus and the trachea had a common opening. He was 41 years old.

George married Bradrick, Anna Birdsall 20 Oct 1880, Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA. Anna (daughter of Bradrick, Isaiah Allen and Rankin, Mary) was born 18 Aug 1856, Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA; died 6 Feb 1941, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
Obituaries for Henry's father in 1896 note that Dr. George Adolph Fiegenbaum was survived by a wife and two children.

Other Events:

• Residence: Abt 1890, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
• Census: Jun 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: Apr 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Residence:

     On 31 July 1890, the World-Herald, of Omaha, Nebraska, reported that the first anniversary of the birth of Helen Fiegenbaum, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Fiegenbaum, had been celebrated the day before at the family home at 1438 North Sixteenth street.

Census:

     According to the 1900 enumeration, the head of household was Anna Feigenbaum [sic], age 42, born August 1857 in Ohio, a widowed and the mother of three children, all of whom were still alive. Two of these children were Mary Feigenbaum [sic], a 10 year old daughter (born July 1889 in Nebraska); and Clara M. Feigenbaum [sic], a 7 year old daughter (born June 1892 in Oklahoma Territory.
     Also in the household was Mary Broderrick [sic], a 71 year old widow (born May 1829 in Ohio). Mary's identity as a "daughter" of the head of household was crossed out at some point.
     The final resident of the home was May [sic] B. Broderrick [sic], age 39 (born June 1860 in Iowa). She was identified as Anna Feigenbaum's niece.
     There are some problems with this enumeration apart from the misspelling of the surnames of all concerned. The head of the household, Anna B. (Bradrick) Fiegenbaum was born in Ohio, but the date of August 1857 may not be correct. She was indeed the mother of three children, but her eldest appears to have died at an early age (before the death of Anna's husband in 1896). Two daughters survived: Helen Mary had been born in 1889 in Nebraska, and Clara Marguerite was born in 1893 in Oklahoma Territory.
     The 71 year old widow, who had first been mistakenly identified as Anna Fiegenbaum's "daughter," was no doubt the mother, Mary (Rankin) Bradrick, born in 1829 in Ohio.
     The woman identified as May [sic] B. Broderrick [sic], age 39, was in all probability Anna Fiegenbaum's younger sister, the second child born to Isaiah Allen and Mary (Rankin) Bradrick. Mary B. Bradrick appeared in subsequent enumerations of Anna's households in Chicago.

Census:

     According to the 1910 enumeration, the household consisted of Anna B. Fiegenbaum, age 53, head of household, widowed, mother of 3 children (2 children still alive); Mary B. Bradrick, age 49, sister, single, manufacturer of "Delicacies;" Helen Fiegenbaum, age 19, daughter, single; and Clara M. Fiegenbaum, age 15, daughter, single, in school.

Died:
According to the Social Security Death Index, Helen's last known residence was Omaha, Nebraska.

Helen married Sawtell, William Amos 27 Jun 1914, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. William (son of Sawtell, Henry Francis and Michel, Sophia Frances) was born 19 Dec 1888, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; died Apr 1963. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: Jun 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: Apr 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Birth:
The year of birth has also been reported as 1892.

Census:

     According to the 1900 enumeration, the head of household was Anna Feigenbaum [sic], age 42, born August 1857 in Ohio, a widowed and the mother of three children, all of whom were still alive. Two of these children were Mary Feigenbaum [sic], a 10 year old daughter (born July 1889 in Nebraska); and Clara M. Feigenbaum [sic], a 7 year old daughter (born June 1892 in Oklahoma Territory.
     Also in the household was Mary Broderrick [sic], a 71 year old widow (born May 1829 in Ohio). Mary's identity as a "daughter" of the head of household was crossed out at some point.
     The final resident of the home was May [sic] B. Broderrick [sic], age 39 (born June 1860 in Iowa). She was identified as Anna Feigenbaum's niece.
     There are some problems with this enumeration apart from the misspelling of the surnames of all concerned. The head of the household, Anna B. (Bradrick) Fiegenbaum was born in Ohio, but the date of August 1857 may not be correct. She was indeed the mother of three children, but her eldest appears to have died at an early age (before the death of Anna's husband in 1896). Two daughters survived: Helen Mary had been born in 1889 in Nebraska, and Clara Marguerite was born in 1893 in Oklahoma Territory.
     The 71 year old widow, who had first been mistakenly identified as Anna Fiegenbaum's "daughter," was no doubt the mother, Mary (Rankin) Bradrick, born in 1829 in Ohio.
     The woman identified as May [sic] B. Broderrick [sic], age 39, was in all probability Anna Fiegenbaum's younger sister, the second child born to Isaiah Allen and Mary (Rankin) Bradrick. Mary B. Bradrick appeared in subsequent enumerations of Anna's households in Chicago.

Census:

     According to the 1910 enumeration, the household consisted of Anna B. Fiegenbaum, age 53, head of household, widowed, mother of 3 children (2 children still alive); Mary B. Bradrick, age 49, sister, single, manufacturer of "Delicacies;" Helen Fiegenbaum, age 19, daughter, single; and Clara M. Fiegenbaum, age 15, daughter, single, in school.

Died:

     The following is a transcription of an obituary from an unidentified and undated newspaper, used with permission from the web site Our Folk, created by Albert Douglass Hart, Jr. (at http://www.renderplus.com/hartgen/htm/lidster.htm):

          Mrs. Lidster

     Mrs. Clara Lidster, 79, a resident of Proctor Endowment Home since Aug. 4, 1966, died there at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday.
     She willed her body to Northwestern University Medical School.
     Mrs. Lidster, a former resident of 1301 NE Glendale was once manager of Glen Oaks Towers.
     She was bon in Oklahoma Territory June 1, 1893, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George A. Fiegenbaum. She married Homer E. Lidster in Chicago June 4, 1917, and he died in Tampa Fla., May 20, 1962.
     Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Virginia Breckenridge of Peoria; Mrs. Ruth Willits of Davenport, Iowa; Mrs. Barbara Jackson of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Helen Satwell of Omaha Ne.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

     It is possible that the references in this obituary to Proctor Endowment Home and Glen Oaks Towers indicate that Clara died in Peoria, Illinois (her last place of residence according to the Social Security death index), but this has yet to be confirmed.

Clara married Lidster, Homer E. 4 Jun 1917, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Homer (son of Lidster, Ralph Eustis and Eaton, Virginia) was born 21 Nov 1892, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; died 20 May 1962, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1930, South St. Paul, Dakota County, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Census:
According to the 1930 enumeration, William, Jr., age 14, was attending school and lived at 220 Fifth Avenue North with his parents, William A. Sawtell (age 41) vice-president in a bank, and Helen Sawtell (age 40).

Died:

     The following obituary was published on 12 May 2006 in the Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico:

SAWTELL -- William Amos Sawtell died May 10, 2006 in Santa Fe, NM where he resided since 1972. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Gloria Sawtell of Santa Fe. He is also survived by his sons: W. Anthony Sawtell and wife, Sarah of Santa Fe, Peter Sawtell and wife, Allyson of Denver, CO; granddaughter, Katherine Sawtell Mirecki and husband, Edmund of Athens, GA; and grandsons: Andrew Sawtell of Lincoln, NE, Geoffrey Sawtell of Denver, CO; and brother, Stephen Sawtell and wife, Helen of Omaha, NE. Mr. Sawtell received a B.A. Degree in 1938 and a J.D. Degree in 1940 from the University of Nebraska. He served in the United States Army (artillery) from 1941 to 1945, with combat service in France and Germany, retiring with rank of Major. In Omaha, He [sic] was partner in the law firm of Morsman, Fike, Sawtell and Davis until his move to Santa Fe in 1972. In Santa Fe, Mr. Sawtell served as board member and treasurer of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, President of El Zaguan, Inc., until the donation of this historic home to the Historic Foundation, member of the honorary board of the Historic Foundation, board member of the Old Pecos Trail Association, member of the New Mexico Advisory Board of the Trust for Public Land, and frequent volunteer with the Santa Fe Community Foundation. In Santa Fe, Mr. Sawtell was a partner in the law firm Catron, Catron and Sawtell and more recently, of counsel to the law firm of Sawtell, Wirth and Biedschied. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to the Trust for Public Land at 418 Montezuma, Santa Fe, NM 87501 or the Santa Fe Community Foundation at P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, NM 87504 or to the charity of your choice. Cremation has taken place and a private family Service will be held at a later date. McGee Memorial Chapel 1320 Luisa St. Santa Fe, NM 983-9151.

Other Events:

• Census: 1920, Porter County, Indiana, USA
• Census: 1930, Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Birth:
The current date of birth is calculated from information recorded in the 1920 U.S. census.

Census:
According to the 1920 enumeration, Mary, age 1 year, 5 months, was living with her parents, Homer and Clara. Also in the home was 15 year old Vernon Fistus, a farm laborer.

Census:
According to the 1930 enumeration, Mary, age 11, was living at 3643 Clinton Avenue with her parents, and her two sisters, Ruth, age 8, and Barbara, age 1 year, 1 month.

Other Events:

• Census: 1930, Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Census:
According to the 1930 enumeration, Ruth, age 8, was living at 3643 Clinton Avenue with her parents, and her two sisters, Mary, age 11, and Barbara, age 1 year, 1 month.

Buried:
Ruth was buried at Section H, Site 50 in the Rock Island National Cemetery. Her husband, John T. Willits, is buried at the same site.

Ruth married Willits, John T. 15 Oct 1960, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. John (son of Willits, Charles and Faulkin, Emma) was born 27 Jul 1911, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, USA; died 9 Dec 2004, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA; was buried , Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]