Biographical Sketch of Rev. J. A. Sherrard, Johnson County, Missouri
Centerview Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

REV. J. A. SHERRARD,

minister of the U. P. church, was born in Ohio, on August 21, 1853.  He
received his primary education in the common schools, after which he
went to the Cambridge Union school; leaving this, he taught for one year
and then entered college, and graduated in 1876, after which he attended
a theological seminary in Ohio, then went to the U. P. theological
seminary at Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, and graduated there in 1879,
and came to Missouri in the following summer, locating in Centerview,
where he became pastor of the U. P. church in the fall of 1880, which
position he still holds.  The church has been very prosperous under his
direction.  He was licensed in Bloomfield, Ohio, and preached his first
sermon in Centerview.  He was married in 1874 to Miss Alice A. Wallace,
daughter of David Wallace, Esq.  By this union they have three
daughters: Clara B., May L. and Alice Maud, all born in Ohio.  Mr.
Sherrard's mother was a native of West Virginia, and is now in her
seventy-third year.  His father died in the fall of 1876, at the age of
eighty-five.

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