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retired from active service Feb. S, 1SS4. In 1S86 he removed to New York city. The honorary degree of LLD. was conferred on liim by Dart- mouth college in 1860, by Yale in 1876. and by the College of New Jersey in 1878. An equestrian statue in bronze by Carl Rohl Smith was erected in 1902 in Washington, D.C. His statue by St. Gaudens was unveiled in New York city in 1903. He died in New York city. Feb. 14, 1891, and was buried in Calvary cemetery. St. Louis, Mo.

SHERWOOD, Adiel, educator, was born at Fort Edward, N.Y.. Oct. 3. 1791; son of Maj. Adiel and Sarah (Sherwood) Sherwood; grandson of Seth Sherwood (a native of Con- necticut who settled with his son Adiel at Fort Edward, N.Y.) and of Parrock Sherwood of New York, and great-grandson of Dr. Thomas Sher- wood, who came from Sherwood Forest, Notting- hamshire, England, about 1634. and settled in Fairfield county, Conn. Maj. Adiel Sherwood, a native of Connecticut, an officer in the army of General Washington, was efficient in carrying out "Washington's plans at Monmouth, spent the dreary winter with his chief at Valley Forge, and was a member of the New York assembly. The son attended Middlebury college, Vermont, 1812-16; was graduated from Union college, N.Y., 1817, and attended the Andover Theological seminary, 1817-18, leaving in 1818 because of ill- health. He was home missionary in Georgia, 1818-20; was ordained in 1820, and was pastor of various Baptist churches in Georgia, 1820-37. He was a trustee of Columbian college, Washington, D.C, 1823-26 and 1829-36, and in 1832 established a Manual Labor and Theological school at Eaton- ton, Ga., which grew to be Mercer university. He was married in 1824, to Emma Catherine, daughter of Roger Heriot who came from Had- dington, Scotland, to Charleston, S.C, and there married Catherine Willets Booth, a native of London, England. He was professor of ancient languages and Biblical literature at Columbian college, 1837-38; professor of moral philosophy and sacred literature at Mercer university. Fen- field, Ga., 1838-41, and president of Shurtleflf college. Upper Alton, 111., 1841-48. In 1846 he was elected secretary of the American Baptist Indian Missionary association. He was president of Masonic college, Lexington, Mo., 1848-49; pastor of the Baptist church at Cape Girardeau, 1849-57; president of Marshall college, Griffin, Ga., 1857-61, and was minister-at-large in St. Louis, Mo., 1866-79. He was prominent in form- ing, in 1820, the General Association, which later became the Georgia Baptist convention. In his educational work he was associated with Jesse Mercer, founder of Mercer university, and Gov- ernors William Rabun and Wilson Lumpkin of Georgia. He received the honorary degree of

D. D., and is the author of the Gazetteer of Georgia (1829, 3d. edit., 1837): Christian and Jeicish Churches Contrasted and Notes on the Neiv Test- ament. He died at St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 18, 1879. SHERWOOD, Isaac R., soldier and editor, was born in Stanford, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1835; son of Aaron and Maria (Yeomans) Sherwood; grand- son of Isaac and Drusilla (Sherwood) Sherwood and of Peter M. and Anna (Campbell) Yeomans; great-grandson of Capt. John Sherwood, a leader in the Whitefield movement of 1751, at New Lon- don, Conn., and a descendant of Dr. Thomas and Alice Sherwood, who sailed to America from Ipswich, England, 1634, and settled at Fairfield, Conn. He attended the Hudson-River institute, Claverack, N.Y., and Antioch college, Ohio; was graduated from the Ohio Law school at Cleve- land, LL.B.. 1858; abandoned law for journalism and located at Bryan, Ohio, where he established The William County Gazette, a Radical news- paper. He was married, Sept. 1, 1859, to Kath- arine Margaret, daughter of Judge James and Rebecca (MuUin) Brownlee of Poland, Ohio. He was elected probate judge of Williams county in 1859, resigning to enlist as a private in the 14th Ohio volunteers, April 18, 1861; participated in the first battles of West Virginia; was commis- sioned lieutenant in the 111th Ohio volunteers, July, 1861; promoted adjutant the same date and served in that capacity through General Buell's campaign in Kentucky, 1862. He was promoted major, Feb. 1, 1863; took part in the campaign against Gen. John Morgan, and in East Tennessee under General Burnside; was promoted lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 12, 1864, and commanded his regiment until the close of the war in all the battles of the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns, receiving the brevet of brigadier-general for gallantry at Franklin, and for " long and faith- ful service." General Sherwood served as sec- retary of state of Ohio, 1869-73, and organized the bureau of statistics; was a Republican representa- tive from the sixth Ohio district in the 43d con- gress, 1873-75, and in 1876 joined the Democratic party. He edited the Cleveland Leader, 1865- 66; the Toledo Commercial, 1866-68; the Toledo Journal, 1874-88, and the Canton News-Democrat, 1888-97; and in 1897 became the editor and pub- lisher of the American Sportsman, devoted to the interests of the harness horse. He became a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, and Sons of the American Revolution, and served as a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. 1890-92 by appoint- ment from Gov. James E. Campbell. He is the author of: The Army Grayhack: A Poem of Campaign Life (1892), and contributions to peri- odicals.