Thomas Adiel Sherwood (October 3, 1791 – August 19, 1879) was an American author and college president of Marshall College.

Biography

Sherwood was born in

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, on October 3, 1791. His father was major Adiel Sherwood, an officer under Washington at Valley Forge and in the battle of Monmouth."Biographies of the Gentlemen Comprising the Democratic State Ticket", ''The St. Joseph Weekly Gazette'' (August 3, 1882), p. 7. Sherwood attended

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in Vermont and

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. In 1819, he moved to

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, where he involved himself with the Baptist ministry. He was instrumental in the founding of the

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. He introduced and widened the support of the temperance movement after moving to Georgia. While in Georgia, his manual-labor system helped inspire the founding of

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and in 1857, he became president of Marshall College in

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. Between 1827 and 1860, he collected statistical information on Georgia's counties and place names, which he compiled into his publication ''A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia''. Sherwood published as many as five different editions between the years of 1827 and 1860. After his farm in Butts County, Georgia was burned by Sherman's troops in the

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, Sherwood moved to

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, where he died on August 19, 1879. He was married to Emma Heriot, his second wife after his first wife and daughter died in 1824. He had five children. One son, Thomas Adiel Sherwood, served as a justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from 1873 to 1902."Missouri Jurist Born 96 Years Ago", ''The Missouri Herald'' (June 6, 1930), p. 1.

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Biography

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