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William H. Sherman, superintendent of the Newton County Poor Farm, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, August 7, 1847, and is the son of Andrew J. and Margaret Louise (Utter) Sherman, natives of Germany and Virginia, respectively. William H. was reared in Ohio on a farm, and lived there until 1877, when he came to Newton County and followed the occupation of carpentering until 1884, when he was selected as a suitable person to take charge of the county poor farm, and a wiser selection could not have been made. In the management of the farm, and in making improvements, as well as in the care of the unfortunates under his charge, Mr. Sherman has earned and merits the commendation of every tax payer in the county. He was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was afterward consolidated with the Twenty-third Regiment, and served until the close of the war, suffering all the hardships incident to a soldier’s life, and yet suffers from the effects of long marches and exposure. Mr. Sherman is a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R. He was married in 1872 to Alwilda Skelley, who was born in Ohio, and they have two children: Russell M. and Hugh W.