The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . West Rupert, Vermont. He is theson of William and Hannah Sherman. His parentswere religious people, and gave him careful moraltraining. His father, having a great fondness formathematics, gave him a rigid course in that sciencefrom his early boyhood. He attended a commonschool until he was thirteen years of age, when heentered an academy. After an academic course offive years -he entered Union College, Schenectady,New York, as a sophomore; he graduated in the class of 1865, and in 18
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . West Rupert, Vermont. He is theson of William and Hannah Sherman. His parentswere religious people, and gave him careful moraltraining. His father, having a great fondness formathematics, gave him a rigid course in that sciencefrom his early boyhood. He attended a commonschool until he was thirteen years of age, when heentered an academy. After an academic course offive years -he entered Union College, Schenectady,New York, as a sophomore; he graduated in the class of 1865, and in 1868 received the degree After leaving college he engaged for one yearin teaching a band of soldiers children at Deposit,New York. He then went to New York city andentered the Union Thelogical Seminary, where heremained two years. He left the seminary and tooka regular course in the medical department of theUniversity of New York, graduating in 1870. Hecame to Wisconsin in May of the year 1870 and set-tled in Milwaukee, where he commenced the prac-tice of his profession. After practising a year in the. ^£>c-,.--t.^^ y^C-e-o^-yj^c THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. 159 regular school he became convinced that homoe-opathy was the better practice. In 1872 he x^fentinto partnership with I. S. Douglas, , his presentpartner. They have built and are at present pro-prietors of the only homoeopathic pharmacy in theState. Dr. Sherman has grown into a large and suc-cessful practice. He does not belong to any church,and is liberal in his religious views. Dr. Sherman is secretary of the State MedicalSociety, elected at the session of 1874. He hastraveled over the greater part of the United ancestors settled in Connecticut at an earlyday and some of them were soldiers in the war ofthe revolution. In 1861 Dr. Sherman invented and constructedwith his own hands a gnomon, or sun-dial, capable ofgiving at one observation sidereal or clock time, solartime, the latit
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