Samuel Sterling Sherman (c. 1815–1914), also known as S.S. Sherman, was an American educator. He was born in Vermont in about 1815, educated at Middlebury College, and later was a tutor at the

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. He taught at Alabama, and served as sometimes librarian, with

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (May 5, 1809 – April 27, 1889) was an American academic and educator who served as the 10th President of Columbia University. Born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, he graduated from Yale University in 1828 and serv ...

and Basil Manly Sr. Sherman was a co-founder of Howard College in Marion, Alabama (now

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of Birmingham, Alabama). As president, he delivered an address to students at Howard College that was published in 1850. See als
Alfred L. Brophy, The Southern Scholar: Howard College Before the Civil War, Cumberland Law Review 46 (2015): 289-309
(discussing Sherman's address). Sherman later was founder of a preparatory school in Georgia. As the sectional tensions heightened, and secession loomed, Sherman moved his family to Wisconsin, where he had a second career as an educator.

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