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HARRY H. SHERMAN, O. D.
Vol. 3, pg. 1040-1041

The beneficent system of osteopathy has an able and effective
exponent in the person of Doctor SHERMAN, who is engaged in the
successful practice of his profession in the City of Alva, judicial
center of Woods County, and who amplifies the scope of his service by
availing himself of the most approved devices and methods pertaining
to the therapeutic values of electricity. Fortified by thorough
preliminary study and scientific training and imbued with ambition
and high professional ideals, he has made of success not an accident
but a logical result, so that he is numbered among the prominent and
representative figures in osteopathic practice in the state of his
adoption.

On the family homestead farm in Shenandoah County, Virginia, Doctor
SHERMAN was born on the 6th of February, 1861, only a few months
before the time when his native commonwealth became the stage of
initial military activities incidental to the Civil war. He is a son
of John and Caroline (CRONK) Sherman. John Sherman was a native of
Germany and after coming to the United States he achieved
independence and definite success through his active association with
agricultural pursuits in the historic Old Dominion State, where he
was a prosperous farmer at the time of his death, in 1862. His
marriage was solemnized in Virginia, in the year 1843, and his wife
was a daughter of Samuel and Rachel (KELLER) Cronk, both natives of
Virginia, where they passed their entire lives. The mother of Doctor
Sherman was born on the 28th of November, 1825, and attained to
venerable age, her death having occurred September 10, 1907. John and
Caroline (Cronk) Sherman became the parents of six sons and two
daughters, of whom the subject of this review is the youngest; Rachel
A., who was born March 3, 1845, died October 18, 1907; Milton H. was
born September 8, 1846, and is still a resident of Illinois; Martha
E., who was born March 14, 1848, died October 12, 1861; William F.
was born September 20, 1849, and died March 20, 1907; Samuel T., who
was born March 24, 1851, is now a resident of the City of San Diego,
California; Jacob R., who was born on the 16th of July, 1853, died
July 15, 1892; and John E., who was born April 20, 1855, passed away
on the 14th of May, 1858.

Doctor Sherman was not yet one year old at the time of his father's
death, and he was reared to adult age under the sturdy discipline of
the farm, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in
the public schools of his native state. When but twelve years he
began the study of dentistry under the preceptorship of his maternal
uncle, Dr. Harrison Cronk, and after acquiring due practical
knowledge and skill he followed the dental profession in an itinerant
was for six years, principally in Virginia. For twelve years he
continued in active practice as a dentist, and his service along this
line was given first in Virginia, later in Indiana and finally in
Oklahoma.

In 1900 Doctor Sherman was graduated in the National School of
Osteopathy, in the City of Chicago, and since that time he has been
engaged in the practice of his profession at Alva, Oklahoma, where he
has gained a substantial and appreciative clientage of representative
order.

Doctor Sherman is essentially progressive and loyal as a citizen and
has been an active and influential worker in behalf of the cause of
the democratic party. In 1906 he was elected a member of the city
council of Alva, and that his two years' service in this office met
with unequivocal popular approval is clearly indicated by the fact
that he was not permitted to retire from municipal service, but was,
in 1908, elected mayor of the city. As chief executive he gave a most
careful, progressive and effective administration of the municipal
government and instituted the first practical measures of such
important public improvements as street paving and the providing of
adequate water, sewerage and lighting systems, his regime as mayor
having covered a term of two years. He has served as chairman of the
Democratic Central Commettee of Woods County and is at the present
time an influential member of the Democratic State Central Committee
of Oklahoma. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received
the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and
he is affiliated also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
the Knights of Pythias.

The first marriage of Doctor Sherman was solemnized on the 2nd of
October, 1891, when Miss Sallie TAYLOR became his wife, she having
been a daughter of Judge Uriah Taylor, and influential citizen of
Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas. Mrs. Sherman was summoned to
the life eternal on the 8th of October, 1895, and of the two children
of this union the first born is Harry T., who was born May 11, 1893,
who enlisted, in 1913, in the United States navy, for a term of four
years, and who is giving excellent account of himself in this branch
of the Government service; Eula V., the younger child, was born
October 18, 1895, and died on the 18th of the following March.

On the 15th of October, 1902, Doctor Sherman wedded Mrs. Minnie
MILLER, and they have one child, Harold Carrico, who was born July 3,
1904.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, December 7, 1998.