Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-Charles C. Sherwood
Portrait and Biographical
Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
CHARLES C. SHERWOOD, a leading and
influential farmer of Newbern Township,
makes his home on section 21. He was
born in Fulton County, Ill., on the 2d of December,
1850, and is a son of Abijah S. and Elizabeth
(McCune) Sherwood. His father was a native of
New York, and his mother was born in Franklin
County, Pa. After their marriage they settled in
Fulton County, Ill., where they resided for several
years, but when our subject was a child of a year
they changed their place of residence, locating in
Marshall County, Ill. The mother died in 1865,
and the father lives in (Oklahoma City.
The subject of this sketch was the third in order
of birth in a family of seven children. No event
of special importance occurred during the days of
his boyhood and youth, which were spent in Marshall
County, Ill., until twenty years of age. He
then came to Dickinson County, Kan., in 1870,
and began business for himself. The success which
he has since achieved has all been due to his own
efforts. He continued to engage in agricultural
pursuits in Newbern Township until the spring of
1876, when he returned to Illinois and resided in
Iroquois County until the fall of 1878.
During that period, Mr. Sherwood was united
in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Knowlton, daughter
of Samuel and Grace N. (Warren) Knowlton,
who were natives of Canada, where Mrs. Sherwood
was born on the 2d of August, 1857. The union
of our subject and his wife was celebrated October
10, 1877, and has been blessed with three daughters:
Ada L., Grace E. and Martha M. They also
lost one child, Sadie B., who died March 19, 1892,
when six months old.
In the autumn of 1878, Mr. Sherwood returned
to this county and has since been a resident of
Newbern Township. He is one of its thrifty
farmers and owns and operates two hundred and
forty acres of good land, which he has placed under
a high state of cultivation, transforming the wild
prairie into rich and fertile fields. His worth and
ability are appreciated by his fellow-townsmen,
who regard him as a prominent citizen in the community
and have honored him with the office of
Justice of the Peace, which he yet fills. He has
also filled a number of school offices and has taken
an active part in educational affairs, doing all in
his power for the advancement of the best interests
of the school. For a number of years be was
a supporter of the Republican party, but is now a
Prohibitionist, having been led to affiliate with
that party on account of his temperance views.
For eighteen years Mr. Sherwood was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, but is now an active
worker and faithful member of the Lutheran
Church, to the support of which he contributes
liberally. His life has been one of uprightness,
honesty and sobriety, and the years of his manhood
have been well and worthily spent. He is
held in high esteem for his sterling worth and well
deserves representation in the history of his
adopted county.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP