Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 423
THOMAS SHERWOOD M. D., of Wilton, has been a member of the medical fraternity of Muscatine County since the spring of 1878. He was born in the year of 1848, in Warren County, Ohio where his father John Sherwood, spent his entire life, dying in 1853. Our subject was reared to farm life and received a liberal education in the High School of Waynesville, Ohio, after which he emigrated to Iowa, in 1871, locating near Clarence, where he made his home until the spring of 1874, when he became a resident of Adams County. The following winter he came to Wilton, and in February, 1875, began the study of medicine under the directions of Drs. Witham and Cooling, and during the winter of 1875-76 attended lectures at the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which celebrated institution he graduated in the class of ' 78. In the meantime he had begun his professional career, practicing with his preceptors.

Immediately after his graduation, in the spring of 1878, our subject was married at Waynesville, Ohio, becoming the husband of Miss Phoebe Bailey, a daughter of Elmer Bailey, of that city. They are now the parents of two children, Freddie and Lawrence. The Doctor is an active member of various medical societies, including the Iowa State Medical Society, the Muscatine County Society of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Eastern Iowa Medical Society. He has been very successful in his chosen vocation, and possesses a natural adaptability to the medical profession, is social and genial in disposition, and is very popular both as a physician and a citizen.

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