- ADELMAN SHERMAN - The subject of this sketch was born in
Berne, Albany County, New
- York, January 30, 1820. He received a common school education,
and removed with his parents - Almerin and Prudence SHERMAN -
to Tioga County, New York, in 1829, and from thence to Rock County,
Wisconsin, in 1844, where he has since resided. He had but five
dollars upon his arrival to Wisconsin, but the next summer he
pre-empted eighty acres of government land, and earned money
to pay for the same in one year. He has continued to add to his
farm until now he has one hundred and ninety-two acres of prairie
and forty acres of timbered openings, with two fine houses, barns,
granaries, and other convenient buildings. Mr. SHERMAN was married
at the age of thirty-one to Miss Amanda COLE, in December, 1851,
and has had a family of six children, of who three are now living,
- George, Jesse, and Carrie. Mr. S. has never had a lawsuit;
has been a member of the legislature for three years; town clerk,
and also township superintendent of schools, for a term of years.
A view of his residence is shown on another page.
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- Taken from "Combination Atlas Map of Rock County,
Wisconsin. Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations
and Surveys by Everts, Baskin and Stewart." Chicago, Ill.
(c)1873, p. 105.
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