BIO: William MCSHERRY, Jr., Gettysburg, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 366 WILLIAM MCSHERRY, Jr., attorney at law, was born in Martinsburg, Va. - the home of his maternal grandfather, Dr. Richard McSherry - July 15, 1855. His father, Hon. William McSherry, is a native and life-long resident of Adams County, Penn.; and his mother was Eliza T. McSherry, a beautiful and intelligent lady of Virginia. He received his early education in the private, public and parochial schools of his father’s home, Littlestown, Adams Co., Penn. From the age of fourteen to sixteen years he was a clerk in a hardware store; then he entered Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Md., from which he graduated in June, 1877, delivering the class valedictory. He read law under his father, Hon. William McSherry, LL. D., and Edward S. Reily, district attorney of Adams County, Penn. (formerly professor of laws at the University of Georgetown, D.C.), and was admitted to the bar August 17, 1878. He has since devoted his time to the study and practice of is profession, with usual success. He served as counsel to the directors of the poor from 1882 to 1886, and was then re- appointed, but declined further service. In June, 1884, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. McSherry’s home is at the family residence, “Home-wood,” in Germany Township; his place of business is Gettysburg.