Untitled From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 148-149

T. B. SHERMAN, one of the well-known business men of Stitzer, Grant county, Wis., is engaged in the furniture and lumber business at that place, and belongs to one of the early families of Lancaster.

Mr. SHERMAN was born in Franklin county, Vt., in 1853, son of Cyrus L. and Fanny (BARBER) SHERMAN, also natives of the Green Mountain State. The mother of our subject was a daughter of the Hon. Joel and Aseneth (MELVIN) BARBER, natives of Connecticut, who migrated first to Vermont, and then, in 1856, to Lancaster, Wis. There Joel BARBER died, at the advanced age of eighty-seven, and his wife died in the same city at the age of eighty. The Hon. Joel Allen BARBER is a brother of our subject's mother, as is also the venerable Theodore BARBER, who is now eighty-seven. Mrs. Cyrus L. SHERMAN was born in Vermont, April 29, 1822, was married June 18, 1849, and died in 1889, and after a long and active life in Lancaster. Cyrus L. SHERMAN was a contractor and builder. In 1854 he migrated to Grant county, Wis., where he died soon afterward, in 1860. His children are: Myron, a resident of California; T. B.; Mary F., wife of a Mr. BUSHNELL, of Madison, Wis.; and Arthur, a resident of California.

T. B. SHERMAN was reared in Lancaster, being educated in the public schools of that place and learning his father's trade of carpenter and joiner. For fifteen years Mr. SHERMAN worked at his trade in Lancaster, then removed to Stitzer and embarked in his present business, which he has built up until it is the leading one of the town. Since 1891 Mr. SHERMAN has been postmaster, and has rendered efficient service in that capacity.

In 1880 T. B. SHERMAN was married to Miss Fanny CARTER, of Lancaster, a daughter of William and Ann (FOX) CARTER, natives of England who in 1850 emigrated to the United States, and settled in Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis. Near that town Mr. CARTER opened up a farm, where he died in 1875, and his wife passed away, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. SHERMAN, at Stitzer, in 1892.

In political matters MR. SHERMAN adheres to the principles of the Republican party, and socially he is connected with the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen. He takes an active interest in the welfare of the community in which he lives, and is regarded as a good citizen, a kind friend and a prosperous business man.



This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck