Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Sherwood, John
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


JOHN SHERWOOD deceased, was born in Scotland, June 29, 1806, 
and was a son of Thomas and Catherine (Bixby) Sherwood, 
natives of Edinburgh, Scotland.  His father was a 
manufacturer in that country, and reared a family of five 
children, of whom John was the oldest.  He was reared in 
Scotland, receiving a good education and also studied 
medicine two years at the University of Pennsylvania.  He 
devoted some time to the study of botany and commenced the 
florist business in Philadelphia.  He owned a handsome place 
in Laurel Hill, where he was engaged in this business for 
several years.  He bought a place in Bristol township in 
1856, and lived there until his death in 1883.  He was 
engaged for over fifty years in the propagation and 
introduction into this country of new and rare plants, and 
was widely known both here and a broad as an authority in 
all matters pertaining to flori-culture. In 1840 he married 
Annabella, daughter of Joel Shuttlewood, by whom he had 
three children, only one of whom, Joe W. Wherwood, of 
Brooklyn, is now living.  This wife died in 1847, and he 
subsequently married Isabella, daughter of Robert M. and 
Catharine (Munson) Hartley.  Her ancestors were of English 
origin and eminent people, her father being well known as 
one of the philanthropists of New York City.  His widow and 
two children still survive him, Robert H., who married in 
1875 the daughter of the late Ho. G. W. Palmer, of Luzerne 
county, and Katherine J., wife of Henry H. Jones, of 
Philadelphia.