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     HERWOOD,
HERBERT ALTON
, Warren, Ohio, was born March 27, 1851, on a farm near Frederickstown, Knox county, Ohio, the son of Stephen Harry and Lucy Lorain
(Manley) Sherwood, both natives of Rutland county, Vermont, and of New England stock. Dr. Sherwood attended the country district school and the
high-school of Frederickstown. He studied for his profession in the Cleveland Homœopathic Hospital College, entering in the fall of 1872 and receiving
his degree February 16, 1876. On March 3 of that year he located at Warren and has since been in the continuous practice of his profession in that
place. From 1875 to 1876 he held the position of house surgeon to the Huron Street Hospital, Cleveland, and is ex-president of the Northeastern Ohio
Homœopathic Medical Society, censor of the Cleveland Homœopathic College, and medical examiner for several life insurance companies. He holds
membership in the following societies : American Institute of Homœopathy, the Ohio State and Northeastern Ohio Homœopathic Medical Society, the
American Medical Association and the Trumbull County Homœopathic Medical Society. September 12, 1878, Dr. Sherwood married Acelia J. Thompson of
Warren, Ohio. One son, Herbert Manley Sherwood, has been born to them.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King

HERWOOD, HERBERT ALTON, Warren, Ohio, born Fredericktown, Ohio, March 27, 1851 ; literary education Fredericktown High
School ; graduated from the Cleveland Homœopathic Medical College in 1876 ; has practiced in Warren since graduation ; was house
physician in Huron Street Hospital, Cleveland, during last year of medical course ; member American Institute of Homœopathy since 1881.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King