Biography of Isaac D. Sawvel, page 631.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Isaac D. Sawvel, farmer and stock-raiser, section 33, Franklin Township, was 
born in Stark County, Ohio, Oct.18, 1836. In 1847 his father, Jacob Sawvel, 
moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Smithfield Township, where our 
subject grew to manhood and was educated in the log-cabin schools.  He was 
reared a farmer and has made agriculture his vocation, also paying 
considerable attention to stock-raising, haveing some of the finest grades 
of cattle and hogs.  He owns 105 acres of valuable land, all well improved, 
with a pleasant residence and good farm building.  Mr. Sawvel was married 
Oct. 21, 1863, to Mary Lutz, daughter of Michael Lutz, who settled in De 
Kalb County in 1848.  They have six children---John, Sadie, Mary, Sherman, 
Laura and Sumner.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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