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SHERWOOD, James Manning, clergyman and editor, was born at Fishkill, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1814. Because of poor health he studied with private tutors, Rev. Dr. George Dodd Armstrong of Fishkill, N.Y., preparing him for the Presby- terian ministry. He was pastor at New Windsor, N.Y., 1835-40: Mendon. 1840-15; Bloomfield, N.J., 1852-5S. Poor health forced him to leave the pulpit, and he removed to New York city, where he edited the National Preacher and Biblical Repository, 1846-51, and the Eclectic Magazine, 1864-71. He founded Hours at Home in 1S65. and was its editor, 1865-69; edited the Presbyterian Revieiv, 1803-71, and the Hoviiletic Review, 1863- 90. He is the author of: Plea for Old Founda- tions (1856); The Lamb in the 3Iidst of the Throne, or the History of the Cross (1883), and Books and Authors and How to Use Them (1886). He died in Brooklyn. N.Y., Oct. 22, 1^90.

SHERWOOD, Katharine Margaret Brown- lee, (Kate Brownlee Sherwood), editor and author, was born at Bedford Springs, Pa., Sept. 25, 1841; daughter of Judge James and Rebecca (Mullen) Brownlee of Poland, Ohio; grand- daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Smith) Brownlee and of George and Katharine (Ham- mer) Mullen and a descendant of James and Margaret (Craig) Brownlee, who came to America in 1800. James Brownlee, Sr., was the Laird of Torfoot, in the parish of Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and his grandson, James, was succes- sor, by inheritance; but he chose America and emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1828, and settled in Trumbull county, Ohio, and became associate judge of the third judicial dis- trict of which it was a part. Mrs. Sherwood was educated at the Union seminary, Poland, Ohio, and was married. Sept. 1, 1859, to Isaac R. Sher- wood (q.v.). She assisted her husband in his editorial work; was editor of the woman's de- partment of the National Tribune, 1883-98; as a member of New YorkSorosis, signed the first call for a Woman's Congress; was a founder of the Woman's Relief Corps; officer in the National Council of Women, U.S.; projected the National Relief Corps Home at Madison, Ohio: was elected president of the Ohio Woman's Newspaper as- sociation; honorary member of the Western Pennsylvania Historical society, and became a frequent contributor to periodicals and news- papers of national character. She is the author of: Camp Fire and Memorial Poems (1885); Dreams of the Ages; a Poem of Columbia (1893); Tlie Memorial of the Flowers (1888), and Guard- ing the Flags (1890).

SHERWOOD, Mary Elizabeth Wilson, author,

was born in Keene, N.H., in 1830; the eldest

daughter of Gen. James (1797-1881) and Mary

Low (Richardson) Wilson, granddaughter of

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James (1757-1839) and Elizabeth (Steele) Wilson, great-granddaughter of Robert and Mary (Hodge) Wilson, and great^-granddaugiiter of William Wilson of Scotch ancestrj-, who came with his family from the North of Ireland to New Hamp- shire. Her grandfather, James Wilson (Harvard, 1789) was a representative from Keene, N.H., in the 11th congress, 1809-11, and her father was Gen. James Wilson (q.v.). At her mother's death, the care of a large family devolved upon the eldest daughter. Her first literary work was an essay on the •' Novel of Jane Eyre " sent to the New York Tribune in 1848, which attracted much friendly criticism. She contributed some 300 short stories to various magazines and newspapers. She was married in 1854, to John Sherwood of New York city, who died in 1894. Mrs. Siierwood gave readings in parlors for charitable objects, making selections from her own works, and made eight trips to Europe. She is the author of: A Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal Courts; Sweet Briar; The Art of Entertaining; Home Amusements; Amenities of Home; An Epistle to Posterity; Here, There and Everywhere, and of numerous contributions to the leading society journals under her initials " M.E.W.S."

SHERWOOD, Thomas Adiel, jurist, was born in Eatonton, Ga., June 2, 1834; son of the Rev. Adiel (q.v.), and Emma Catherine (Heriot) Sher- wood. He attended Shurtleff college and Mercer university, and in 1852 removed with his father to southeast Missouri, where he taught school at Cape Girardeau, studied law near there, and was graduated from Cincinnati Law school in 1857. He established himself in practice in southwest Missouri and finally at Springfield, Mo., in 1858. He was married at Mount Vernon, Mo., June 18, 1861, to Mary Ellen, daughter of Gabriel Richard- son and Nancy (McKinzie) Young, and great granddaughter of Roderick Dhu McKinzie of Clan ]\IcKiuzie. Scotland, who came to Charles- ton, S.C., where he married a Miss Torrence, against the will of the bride's parents and they settled in one of the southern states, never re- turning to Charleston. He was elected in 1872 associate justice of the supreme court of Mis- souri for the long term expiring 1882, becoming chief-justice by seniority, and in 1882 and 1892 was re-elected associate jvistice, his last term ex- piring Jan. 1, 1903, again becoming cliief- justice by election, Jan. 1, 1891. His opinions form vol- umes of exposition of the laws of Missouri, and his dissenting opinions, generally found to be sound in law, some fifty in number, came to be adopted by the supreme court. On retiring from the bench in January, 1903, he resumed the practice of law in St. Louis in partnership with his son, Adiel Sherwood.