SHERWOOD, Adiel, clergyman, born in Fort Edward, New York, 3 October, 1791; died in St. Louis, Missouri, 18 August, 1879. After studying three years at Middlebury college, Vermont, young Sherwood entered Union college in 1816, and was graduated in 1817. He then spent a year at Andover theological seminary, at the close of which infirm health caused him to remove to Georgia. Here he was ordained in 1820 as a Baptist minister. Besides serving as pastor and performing extensive preaching tours at various places, he was especially effective in advancing the educational interests of the Georgia Baptists. For several years, beginning in 1827, he was at the head of a school in Edenton. He was elected in 1837 to a professorship in Columbian college, Washington, D. C., but resigned the next year to accept the chair of sacred literature in Mercer university, Georgia In 1841 he was elected president of Shurtleff college, Alton, Illinois During 1848-'9 he was president of the Masonic college, Lexington, Missouri In 1857 he returned to Georgia, and became president of Marshall college at, Griffin. After the civil war he went again to Missouri. He received the honorary degree of D.D. Besides contributing extensively to periodicals, Dr. Sherwood was the author of a "Gazetteer of Georgia" ; "Christian and Jewish Churches "; and "Notes on the New Testament."