Sheldon, Charles H
soldier, governor, was born in 1840 in Johnson, Vt.
For ten years he lived in southern Illinois; in Kentucky three years; and in 1881 moved to Dakota. He was a member of the territorial council of 1887; and in 1892 was elected governor.
SHELDON, CLESSON PARMENTER, clergyman, was born May 9, 1813, in Bernardston, Mass. In 1845 he graduated from the Madison university of Hamilton, N. Y. He became an eminent clergyman of the baptist church; filled pastorates in Whitesboro, Hamilton, Buffalo, and for nineteen years in Troy, N. Y., where he died Oct. 25, 1888.