Jackson County MI Archives Biographies.....Sherwood, Mott November 26, 1868 - June 4, 1915
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Author: History of Michigan, 1912?

MOTT EMMONS SHERWOOD.  The railway service has always drawn into its ranks many 
of the keenest and ablest men, and though the industry is one requiring the 
closest discipline and the aggregate employees number thousands, advancement is 
quite sure to come to the deserving, and in that business more than any other 
promotion, means efficiency and proved and tested worth.  Of the better known 
men in the service of the Michigan Central lines through Michigan, perhaps none 
has had more rapid advancement than Mr. Sherwood, now master mechanic in the 
Michigan Central Shops at Jackson Junction.

Mott Emmons Sherwood was born at Mount Vernon, New York, November 26, 1868, a 
son of George F. and Katherine (Emmons) Sherwood, who now live at Jackson.  The 
father is a cabinet maker by trade and for a number of years was an engineer on 
steamships plying across the Atlantic Ocean.

When Mr. Sherwood was seven years old in 1875, the family located in Jackson, 
and in that city he grew up and attended the local schools until he was 
sixteen, when he quit to enter the shops of the Michigan Central Railway at 
Jackson Junction.  During the three years in the shopts at that time, he was 
employed chiefly as an engine wiper and "caller".  After that for some years he 
was out of the railway service and for a time was engineer for the Jackson 
Electric Light & Power Company.  On re-entering the Michigan Central employ 
twenty-three years ago, he began as a machinist and his record since that time 
is one of special interest and is given in full as follows:  Beginning as a 
machinist October 1, 1890, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, 
promoted to gang boss at three dollars and a half a day on May 1, 1903, 
promoted assistant general foreman at ninety-five dollars a month, February 1, 
1904; wages raised to one hundred and five dollars a month, January 1, 1906; 
again increased to one hundred and twenty dollars a month, December 1, 1906; 
promoted to general foreman at one hundred and fifty-five dollars a month on 
September 1, 1907; wages increased to one hundred and seventy-five dollars a 
month May 1, 1909 and to two hundred dollars amonth July 1, 1909.  Promoted 
from general foreman at two hundred dollars a month to master mechanic at two 
hundred and fifty dollars a month August 1, 1910; and his salary raised to two 
hundred and seventy-five dollars on June 1, 1912.

On December 2, 1889, Mr. Sherwood married Miss Inez Eva Isbell, of Jackson.  
They have one son, William Franklin Sherwood, born March 4, 1891.  Mr. Sherwood 
is affiliated with the Elks and is a member of the Master Mechanics Association.

Additional Comments:
See newspaper articles related to Mott Sherwood 6/5 and 6/6/1915.

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