A. Sherin Biography


	This biography appears on page 1110 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	A. SHERIN, one of the representative citizens of Codington county, 
being engaged in the practice of law in Watertown and being also the 
editor and publisher of the Watertown Times, was born in Victoria 
county, province of Ontario, Canada, on the 11th of March, 1857, and is 
a son of Henry and Ann Sherin, both of whom were born in Ireland, whence 
they came to Canada with their respective parents when they were young. 
The father of the subject became a successful farmer and both he and his 
wife died in Canada. 

	A. Sherin, the subject of this review passed the first sixteen 
years of his life on the home farm, and received a common-school 
education, completing his studies in the schools at Branchton, Ontario. 
He early manifested a predilection for mechanical pursuits and became a 
skilled carpenter, to which line of work he devoted his attention for 
eight years after leaving the parental roof. In 1881 he came to what is 
now the state of South Dakota, and in the following year took up a pre-
emption claim near the village of Blunt, Hughes county. In 1884 he 
removed to Britton, the capital of Marshall county, and there engaged in 
the practice of law, for which he had prepared himself by careful 
preliminary study, being duly admitted to the bar of the territory. He 
built up an excellent professional business and there continued in 
practice until 1899, when he came to Watertown, where he has since been 
engaged in general practice. He was editor and publisher of the Britton 
Sentinel from 1891 until his removal to Watertown, and here he has since 
published and edited the Watertown Times, one of the ably conducted and 
popular week]y newspapers of the state. Mr. Sherin served as county 
judge in Marshall county during the years 1895-6, and during the ensuing 
two years was state's attorney of that county. He is a Populist in his 
political faith and adherency, and has been a prominent and influential 
figure in the ranks of the same in South Dakota, having done most 
effective service in the party cause. He and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and fraternally he is identified with the 
Modern Brotherhood of America, of which he served as secretary in the 
local organization for two years. 

	In Galt, Ontario, in the year 1879, was solemnized the marriage of 
Mr. Sherin to Miss Sarah J. Copeland, and of their five children four 
are living. Edwin J. was born in 1880; Burtie was. born in 1881 and died 
in 1897; Arthur was born in 1883 ; Harry in 1887 and Evaline in 1894.