Aaron M. Sherman
Aaron M. Sherman, physician and surgeon, Kent, was born in Brimfield, Hampden Co., Mass., March 24, 1826, fourth son of Capt. Harris and Sally (Morgan) Sherman, both of whom were natives of Brimfield, Mass., and who had a family of the following children: Lewis M. ; Caleb, deceased; Caroline, deceased; Sarah, wife of William R. Mathews, in Sully, Iowa; Aaron M.; Thomas, in Sully, Iowa; Otis S., deceased, and John W. Capt. Harris Sherman came to Ohio in 1831, arriving in Brimfield Township, Portage County, Sunday the 5th of June, that year. He and his wife are now deceased, having lived honored lives for more than four-score years. The genealogy of the Sherman family dates back to the early settlement of this county, and were honored names in its history. Three brothers emigrated from England to America in an early day, one settled in Massachusetts, one in Connecticut, and one in Rhode Island. The subject of this sketch belongs to the Massachusetts branch. His early life was passed on his father's farm, attending school six months in the year until he was sixteen years old, when a few terms at a select school fitted him for teaching in a county school. He taught four winters in a day school, and singing in the evenings. At the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of medicine at Garrettsville, this county, with Dr. John A. Knowlton. He attended two full courses of lectures at the Medical Department of Western Reserve College of Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in the spring of 1851. On September 26, same year, he was married to Miss Henrietta, eldest daughter of John and Mary (Green) Tabor, of Garrettsville, Ohio, who died October 26, 1853. He was again married April 26, 1854, this time to Harriet, daughter of Watson I. and Mary (Mcintosh) Gray, of Bedford, Ohio, by whom he has one son—Harris G., a prominent oculist in Cleveland, Ohio. The Doctor, after graduating, located in Garrettsville, and followed his profession until the spring of 1857, when he moved to Kent and embarked in the drug business, but after four years resumed his profession, and has since had a large and successful practice. During the war of the Rebellion he was Assistant Surgeon in Lincoln General Hospital at Washington, D. C. In the fall of 1883 Dr. Sherman was elected to the Sixty-sixth General Assembly from Portage County, of which he is at present a member. Diiring his first winter he took an active and intelligent part in the general legislation, and was among the industrious and prominent members of that body. The Doctor has always been an active promoter of every public enterprise in his community. He has frequently served as a member of the School Board, and for several years has been the efficient Secretary of the Pioneers' Association of Portage and Summit Counties. In 1881 he wrote a history of Brimfield Township, dating from its first settlement, which he delivered as a historical address in that township, July 4 of that year. It was published in paruphlet form and was the only history of that township written up to that date. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and for ten years held the position of Master of the first lodge in Kent. In politics he is a stanch Republican. In religious belief a Universalist.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885