Sawin, Rev. A. A.

SAWIN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/18/2007 at 20:18:32

REV. A. A. SAWIN died of small pox at West Irving in the summer of 1864. He was born at West Minister, Massachusetts, and dedicated himself to the Christian ministry in his youth. He showed marks of great earnestness and more than ordinary ability. He preached at Ticonderoga, then in Vermont, afterwards at Stillwater, N. Y., at Fulton, Ill, Lyons, Iowa, and at Marion, Iowa. From Marion he removed to Benton county and threw himself with all the characteristic earnestness of his nature into the enterprise of establishing the Addison Collegiate Institute at West Irving. He was acting pastor at the time of his death of the Toledo Church where he “was buried among an attached and mourning flock.”