SHERWOOD, Charles L.

SHERWOOD, BACKOVEN, WARD, SIMPSON, PARKINSON, BUIHNER

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 22:29:52

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

CHARLES L. SHERWOOD, deceased, was one of the early settlers of Sac county, Iowa,
coming to this county in the spring of 1873, bringing his family in the fall of the same
year. He located in Clinton township, where he purchased a tract of 100 acres of wild
land, on section 22. He improved this farm, planting groves and orchards and erected
buildings, and made this place his home until 1879. At this time he left the farm and came
into Wall Lake, where he engaged in the real-estate business, and was made its first
Postmaster. He followed the real-estate business, representing the Iowa Land Company,
until his death, which occurred in 1888, when he had reached the age of seventy-one years
and ten months. He had served the people of Wall Lake as Postmaster for three years.

He was a native of Deleware county, Ohio, where he was reared, and where he
married Miss Elma Backoven, a native of New York, who died in 1889, at the age of
seventy-two years. In his early life he was an active politician in the Republican party.
Mrs. Sherwood was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She became the
mother of six children, as follows: Anna L., wife of Benjamin Ward, of Wall Lake;
Octavia E., widow of Horace J. Simpson, of Wall Lake; George C.; Ledoytt P., a resident
of Wall Lake; Mary J. wife of John Parknson, of Wall Lake township; and Elias A., a
resident of Wall Lake.

George C. Sherwood was born in Delaware county, Ohio, October 22, 1847, and
came with the family to Clinton county, Iowa, when but eight years of age, and in 1873
accompanied his father to this county. He followed farming with his father for two years,
after coming here, until his marriage, January 10, 1881. At that time he was engaged in
farming for himself, on a tract of raw prairie land, consisting of 120 acres, on sections 22
and 27, in Clinton township. This land he improved and here made his home until 1890,
when he removed to Wall Lake, and in the spring of 1892, engaged in the livery business.
Our subject carries a full stock of livery equipments. While upon the farm he engaged in
general farming, and assisted in improving 400 acres in Sac county, and has been one of
the active and representative citizens of this county. In his politics he has always been a
stanch Republican.

He was married in Tama county, Iowa, January 10, 1881, to Miss Anna R. Buihner,
a native of Illinois, daughter of John and Ursula Buihner, and four children have been
added to the household of Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood, these are: Elma, Ray, Maggie and
Clair. The Sherwood family stands among the most highly respected and highly esteemed
in the county.