Alfred Dow, son of Reuben A. and Hannah Libby. Sawyer was born on his father's farm in Pownal, Maine January 8, 1855. He attended the district school of his native place and worked on the farm until he left home to prepare for entrance to the Maine Medical School connected with Bowdoin College having previously prepared for college at Litchfield Academy. He left the Medical School of Maine before graduating to attend lectures at the medical department of the New York University where he was graduated M.D. in 1880. He practiced medicine and surgery at Lisbon Falls, Maine, 1881-85, and in 1885 removed to Fort Fairfield, Aroostook county, Maine and established himself in that place as a physician and surgeon. He was made a member of the school board of Fort Fairfield immediately on taking up his residence in that place, and for most of the time during the next twenty years was superintendent of schools. His professional affiliations are membership in the Aroostook Medical Association and the Maine Medical Association. His fraternal affiliations are membership in the Eastern Frontier Lodge, No 112, Free and Accepted Masons, Fort Fairfield, Maine; Aroostook Council, Presque Isle, Maine; Garfield Chapter, Royal Arch Masons and St. Aldemar Commandery, Knights Templar, of Houlton, Maine. He married, 1880, Mabel, daughter of Gardner Speer of Lisbon, Maine, and their children were as follows: 1. Alfred Loomis, born December 23, 1881, graduated at Bowdoin College А. B., 1904, and at the Medical School of Maine M.D., 1907. 2. Warren, September 5, 1883, engaged in farming in Fort Fairfield. 3, Herbert G., April, 1886, a druggist in Boston, Massachusetts.
(Genealogy and Family History of the State of Maine)
Alfred married [2nd] June, 30, 1903, Caribou, ME, Anna Maxwell Smith b. abt 1865, Caribou, ME; d. 21 July, 1947, Polk, Oregon.