Sherman, Roger – Shields, Charles Woodruff
Sherman, Roger
signer of the declaration of independence, was born April 19, 1721, in Newton, Mass. He was judge of the county, superior and supreme courts for a period of twenty-three years.
He was a member of the first congress in 1774, and continued in congress for many years. He signed the declaration of independence in 1776, and also the articles of confederation and the constitution.
After the adoption of the constitution of the United States, in regard to which he took a prominent part, he was elected a representative in congress from Connecticut. He was chosen a senator of the United States in 1791, continuing in that station until his death. He died July 23, 1793, in New Haven, Conn.
Sherman, Sidney
pioneer, was born in March, 1805, in Massachusetts. In 1839 he was elected major-general of the Texan republic; in 1842 he served in its congress; and in 1862-63 in the state legislature. He died in 1873 in Galveston, Texas.
Sherman, Socrates N
congressman, was born in Vermont. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress.
Sherman, Thomas West
soldier, was born March 26, 1813, in Newport, R. I.
He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died March 16, 1879, in Newport, R. I.
Sherman, William Tecumseh
soldier, author, was born Feb. 8, 1820, in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed a colonel of infantry in the United States army and commanded a brigade at Bull Run. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and had command of the Kentucky department. He was made major-general; and in 1864 made one of the most famous military marches of modern times, going from Atlanta to Savannah, with sixty thousand men, which great enterprise soon brought the war to a conclusion. He was made brigadier-general in the United States army in 1863, major-general in 1864, lieutenantgeneral in 1866, and general-in-chief of the army in 1869. In 1869 he was appointed secretary of war. A Memoir of His Life and Campaign has been published; and also his The Military Lessons of the War. He died in 1891.
Sherrick, Fannie I
poet, was born in St. Louis, Mo. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Star Dust.
Sherrill, Eliakim
soldier, congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1849. He served as an officer in the rebellion, and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg.
Sherrill, Joseph E
journalist, clergyman, was born Jan. 19, 1852, in Putnam county, Ind. Since 1886 he has been proprietor of the Normal Publishing house of Danville, Ind.; and has attained prominence as an evangelist in the baptist church.
Sherrod, William C
soldier, planter, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 17, 1835, in Courtland, Ala. He served in the state legislature of Alabama in 1859 and 1860; and was an officer in the confederate army during the civil war. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-first congress as a democrat.
Sherwin, John C
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1838, in Saint Lawrence, N. Y. He was twice elected county clerk of Kane county, Ill.; and was city attorney of Aurora. He served three years in the union army during the war of the rebellion; and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Sherwin, Thomas
educator, author, was born March 26, 1799, in Westmoreland, N. H. He was a noted educator of Boston, master of the high school in 1838- 69, and author of treatises on algebra.
He died July 23, 1869, in Dedham, Mass.
Sherwood, Adiel
educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 3, 1791, in Fort Edward, N. Y. He was a baptist minister and educator of Georgia; and the author of Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and Jewish Churches; and Notes on the New Testament. He died Aug. 18, 1879, in St. Louis, Mo.
SHERWOOD, MRS. EMILY [LEE], journalist, author, was born in 1843 in Indiana. She is a Washington journalist who has published Willis Peyton, a novel.
Sherwood, Henry
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1817, in Bridgeport, Conn. He devoted himself to the practice of law during twenty-four years; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a democratfrom Wellsborough, Pa. He has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Pennsylvania; is also noted as an eloquent speaker; and contributes valuable as an articles to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States.
Sherwood, Isaac R
soldier, journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1835, in Stanford, N. Y. He established the Williams county Gazette of Bryan, Ohio; and in 1859 was elected probate judge of Williams county, which position he resigned to enter the army in 1861. He was commissioned major in 1863; was promoted to lieuten ant-colonel in 1864; and commanded his regiment to the close of the war, receiving a brevet of brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious services. He edited the Toledo Commercial, and was an editorial writer on the Cleveland Leader. He was elected secretary of state for Ohio in 1868; and re-elected in 1870. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortythird congress as a republican. He is the author of a volume entitled Army Grayback, a book of humorous verse.
Sherwood, James Manning
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Sept. 29, 1814, in Fishkill, N. Y. He is a presbyterian clergyman and editor of religious journals; and the author of A Plea for the Old Foundations; The History of the Cross; and Books and Authors. He died Oct. 22, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sherwood, John D
author, was born Oct. 15, 1818, in Fishkill, N. Y. He was the author of Comic History of the United States; and The Case of Cuba. He died in 1891.
Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret
journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 24, 1841, in Poland, Ohio. She is a poet and journalist of Canton, Ohio; and has been especially successful as a writer of army lyrics and poems for military occasions.
She is the author of Camp Fire and Memorial Poems; and Columbia. Since 1882 she has been editor of the woman's department of the National Tribune, published at Washington, D. C., in the interest of the union soldiers.
Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Eliza-
BETH [WILSON], author, was born about 1830 in Keene, N. H. She is a Washington novelist and miscellaneous writer; and the author of The Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of Home; Home Amusements; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; and The Art of Entertaining.
Sherwood, Samuel
lawyer, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815. He died in November, 1862, in New York.
Sherwood, Samuel B
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1817 to 1819. He died in 1833.
Sherwood, Thomas Adiel
lawyer, jurist, was born June 2, 1834, in Eatonton, Ga. In 1872 he was elected to the bench of the supreme court of the state of Missouri, served two successive terms of ten years, and was re-elected in 1892.
Sherzer, Jane Belle
educator, was born Oct. 23, 1858, in Franklin, Ohio.
She received her education in the public schools of her native city, and studied four years at the university of Michigan, receiving the degree of Ph. D. She also studied in Paris, and has traveled extensively through the principal countries of Europe, and in Egypt and Palestine.
She is a successful public speaker, and the author of a series of articles on foreign travel.
Shew, Joel
physician, author, was. born Nov. 13, 1816, in Providence, N. Y.
He was a hydropathic physician of New York state, among whose writings are, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure; Cholera Treated by Water; and The Hydropathic Family Physician. He died Oct. 6, 1855, in Oyster Bay, N. Y.
Shiel, George K
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born about 1815, in Ireland. He practiced law in Salem, Ore., during 1854-61. He was elected a representative from Oregon to the thirtyseventh congress. He died Dec. 14, 1893, in Salem, Ore.
Shields, Charles Woodruff
educator, clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1825, in New Albany, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion at Princeton college from 1865, and active in behalf of church unity. He is the author of The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer According to the Revision of the Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science of the Sciences; The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in Their Relations to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic Episcopate; The Question of Unity; and The United Church of the United States.