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Sherman, Robert Minot – Sherwood, Henry

Sherman, Robert Minot

lawyer,. jurist, state senator, was born May 22, 1773, in Woburn, Mass. He was a member of the Connecticut general assembly in 1798; and was a member of the state senate from 1814 to 1818. He was a judge of the superior court and the supreme court of errors from 1840 to 1842. He died Dec.

Sherman, Henry

lawyer, author, was born March 6, 1808, in Albany, N. Y.

He was a Hartford lawyer, author of An Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine Insurance to the Present Time; The Gov-30, 1844, in Fairfield, 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.

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.