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 55° SHEPHERD. SHERMAN. Perkins H. and Charlotte (White) Bagley. Their two children are : John Shepard, Jr., and Jessie Watson Shepard. Mr. Shepard is a member of the Mer- chants' Association, a director of the Lin- coln Bank, the Lamson Store Service Company, the Connecticut River Paper Company, and vice-president of the Burn- stein Electric Company. Mr. Shepard is an ardent and well- known lover of fast trotting horses, he himself having owned some of the most valuable equine stock in the country. He continues to find in raising and driving the finest horses, relaxation from the exacting demands of the immense business he has brought to such a high standard of honor- able prosperity. He resides in the winter on Beacon Street, in the city of Boston, and has a summer residence called " Edgewater " at Phillips Beach, in Swampscott. SHEPHERD, JOSEPH CHOATE, sou of George H. and Mary Ann (Choate) Shep- herd, was born in Gloucester, Essex county, March 24, 1845. JOSEPH C. SHEPHERD. His education was limited to the common schools. He has always been engaged in the meat business since he entered upon his life's career, and for twenty years he has been in business for himself in Glou- cester, ranking among the leading mer- chants of that city. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Patriarchs Militant, Independent Order of Red Men, Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United Work- men, Royal Arcanum, and the Grand Army of the Republic. During the war he served as private in the 8th Massachusetts regiment. In 1878 he was elected to the common council ; was a member of the board of aldermen in 1887, and re-elected in 1S88. Mr. Shepherd is in that branch of the distinguished Choate family in which Rufus Choate is found. He was married in Rockport, June 20, 1S69, to Martha Sanborn, daughter of Emerson and Martha L. Colby. Of this union were three children : Frank C, Ella B., and Ralph C. Shepherd. SHERMAN, DAVID, son of Roger Stev- ens and Orilla (Moses) Sherman, was born in New Lebanon, Columbia county, N. Y., June 17, 1S22. He is a descendant of Hon. Philip Sherman, one of the original settlers of Boston. His early life was spent with his father on a farm. He passed through the public schools of his native place, the classical school of New Lebanon, Bristol's classical school, Canaan, N. Y., and the Wesleyan Acad- emy, Wilbraham, finishing his course of three years at the latter institution in 184,3. The same year he was married, in Wil- braham, June 4th, to Catharine Bardwell, daughter of Chester and Nancy (Brewer) Moody. Mrs. Moody was the daughter of Gains Brewer, grandson of the old Spring- field parson. Of this union are two chil- dren: Roger Cecil (clergyman), and Stephen . Sherman (city editor of the "Boston Traveller.") Mrs. Sherman died January 23, 1885. Mr. Sherman united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1838 ; joined the New England conference in 1843, and since that time has been in continuous charge of a church as minister, or of a district as presid- ing elder. His charges have been in Ware (i843- ? 45), Chicopee (1845 -'46), Jenksville (1847), North Blandford( 1 848-'49), Shrews- bury (1850-51), Southbridge (1852-53), South Boston (1854), supernumerary rela- tion (1855), Spencer ( 1 S56— '5 7), Warren (1858-60), Medford (1865), Lynn (1878- '80), Hopkinton (i88i-'84), Holliston (i884-'S6), and in 1887 Easthampton, his present residence. He was presiding elder of the Worcester district from 1861 to '64 ; Springfield dis-