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Br John Dickinson “Dicky” Sherwood

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Br John Dickinson “Dicky” Sherwood

Birth
San Francisco County, California, USA
Death
23 Nov 1919 (aged 58)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
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John "Dickinson" Sherwood, arrived to Spokane, Washington in 1883, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, the same year as his 'friend' Benjamin Norman. Mr. Sherwood was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 58, along with his wife, Josephine (Cone), at Half Moon Bay (Devils Slide), and there traveling companions, Mr. & Mrs. Belshaw. Mr. Sherwood was an agent for the Adams Real Estate Trust; managed, for Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. pres. Charles Francis Adams II was the Union Pacific R. R. pres. He and his brother Brooks Adams invested heavily in land in the western U. S. and downtown Spokane. A nephew, George Caspar Adams, acquired foreclosed land in Spokane, between 1890 and 1897, a time of economic panic in Spokane and nationwide. In the late 1880s/early 1890s the family owned extensive real estate N. W. of Spokane, and the s.e. qtr. of the city, W. of Manito. Kirtland Cutter designed (Sherwood's home in 1898, "Sherwood Addition-2941 Summit). Sherwood married Josephine B. Cone of Red Bluff, California in 1896.
Source: Family Search: Halsted & Co. Funeral Records -San Francisco, California
FamilySearch Genealogy
Bio: Birchwood Farm Grove 2017
Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Volume 22-see; Prominent Harvard Men Killed-Sherwood/Belshaw
John "Dickinson" Sherwood, arrived to Spokane, Washington in 1883, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, the same year as his 'friend' Benjamin Norman. Mr. Sherwood was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 58, along with his wife, Josephine (Cone), at Half Moon Bay (Devils Slide), and there traveling companions, Mr. & Mrs. Belshaw. Mr. Sherwood was an agent for the Adams Real Estate Trust; managed, for Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. pres. Charles Francis Adams II was the Union Pacific R. R. pres. He and his brother Brooks Adams invested heavily in land in the western U. S. and downtown Spokane. A nephew, George Caspar Adams, acquired foreclosed land in Spokane, between 1890 and 1897, a time of economic panic in Spokane and nationwide. In the late 1880s/early 1890s the family owned extensive real estate N. W. of Spokane, and the s.e. qtr. of the city, W. of Manito. Kirtland Cutter designed (Sherwood's home in 1898, "Sherwood Addition-2941 Summit). Sherwood married Josephine B. Cone of Red Bluff, California in 1896.
Source: Family Search: Halsted & Co. Funeral Records -San Francisco, California
FamilySearch Genealogy
Bio: Birchwood Farm Grove 2017
Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Volume 22-see; Prominent Harvard Men Killed-Sherwood/Belshaw

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