My Genealogy Hound

DAVID O. SHERMAN, the only son of Merritt and Laura (Barnes) Sherman, was born in Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York, May 7th, 1833. His grandfather was Abram S. Sherman, a native of Albany county, this State. From there he went to Cayuga county, and then came to Chautauqua at an early date, where he followed farming and became prosperous. He affiliated with the Whig party, which at that time was dominant. He married and reared a family of six sons and two daughters. Merritt Sherman was born during his parents sojourn in Cayuga county. He learned farming and followed it through life. He came to Chautauqua county and settled, and lived for a number of years, but died in Jamestown in 1891. His sympathies and votes were cast with the followers of Hamilton, but he refrained from active political life. He married Laura Barnes, a daughter of John Barnes, who lived at Ashville, Harmony P. O., this county. They were the parents of three children, two daughters and one son. One daughter married W. W. Eddy, and lives at Jamestown, N. Y.; the second sister married Samuel Cowing, and resides at Lakewood, N. Y.

David O. Sherman, the subject of our sketch, was reared on the farm and passed his early days in the usual manner which country boys do. The public schools, that bulwark of the nation’s safety, furnished him an education which has stood him in good stead throughout his long and honorable life. In April, 1857, he married for his first wife Miss Amanda Currier, who was a native of Arcade, Wyoming county, this State, and after her death he married Mrs. Carrie (Bailey) Sabin, a daughter of Gambriel Bailey, of Hadden, Conn., who died in Holyoke, Mass., in 1826. He was a shoe-maker by trade, at which he worked in connection with his farming. Politically Mr. Bailey was a Connecticut democrat and married Lucy Phelps. They reared a family of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. Mrs. Sherman has been three times married: first to Hector L. Bodwell; second to David Sabin, by whom she had one daughter, Nettie, now the wife of Martin Harrington, a farmer in the town of Ripley; and last to David O. Sherman, on September 25th, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman have a very happy and pleasant home. He is courteous, hospitable and generous, and a man of well-known integrity both in public and private life.

For twenty years he was in mercantile life at No. 207 Main Street, Buffalo, in the wholesale grocery trade, and for the same length of time at other places. He established himself in Buffalo in 1857, and remained until the year following the nation’s Centennial of Independence.