We now have the satisfaction of directing attention to the more salient points in the life history of one who enjoys a most distinctive popularity as one of the representative citizens of Saint Ignace, Mackinac coonty, and one who has attained to distinguished preferments. He is the capable Representative to the Lower House of the Michigan Legislatnre from the Chippewa district. He has the distinction of being the first man of Republician faith is politics to be elected to this office from said district, which embraces Mackinac, Chippewa and Luce counties, and which had previously been strong, and it was thought hopelessly, Democrctic in its political complexion. If many another man of the district had been standard-bearer the result might have been very different. Indeed, we are amply justified in concluding that it would have been,—judging from the fate of good Republicans who have stood as moderates in former yeacs. The fact thar Mr. Sherwood won such a signal victory in the late contest, combined with the further fact that he is the first Republican Mayor of Saint Ignace ever winning in two contests on a straight ticket,stamps him unmistakably as the political wizard of the upper peninsula. He is beyond question the one man in his district who can get nearest the people and and who has their confidence. His wonderful ability as a winner of votes in the mayoralty contest is his city made him, almost by common consent, the candidate of his party for Representative in the Legislature He had no opposition, and all that remained for the convention at Newberry to do was to record its unamious vote in his favor. His majarity over the fusion candidate was 936, in a total of 4,400 votes. In his official capacity he is working quietly in the interest of a few matters the cities of Saint Ignace and Sault de Sainte Marie, and to secure an appropriation for the completion of the State asylum at Newberry.

Mr. Shersvood has been a citizen of the United States about a decade. He comes naturally by his political beliefs; he is a Canadian by birth and education and was identifed with the protectionist party there, so when, on coming to his new home, he found political conditions almost identical —the one great party advotating protection and the other opposing it—he was at once and already a Republican.

Mr. Sherwood was born in Halton county, province ol Ontario, Canada, December 1, 1843. His early life was passed on the farm, where he remained until he had attained the age of twenty-fear years, and his educational advantages were of distinctively rural order. In the year 1867 he engaged in merchandising at Mount Forest, Wellington county Ontario, and continued the enterprise , with varying degrees of success, until coming to St Ignace in 1882. Here he engaged in the hotel business as proprietor of the Bay View House, which he conducted about seven years ago (1888), when he erected the Sherwood, a fine four-story frame structure of modern architecture, which embodies his ideas of the hotel accommodations demanded by the thriving city in whose welfare he is ever concerned. The erection and furnishing of the hotel represented a financial outlay of $26,000, the appnintmenca of the house and the service accorded are ot the sort that the traveling public hold in high favor.

Mr. Sherwood is a typical Boniface who never fails to welcome the coming and speed of the parting guest, being genial and sympathetic in nature and gaining the friendship of all whom he is in contact. The atmosphere of the hotel is inviting by the presence and courtesy of Mrs. Sherwood.

Our subjects father, John Sherwood, was born in Yorkshire, England and he wedded Hannah Thompson, who bore him ten children, five of whom are living, our subject being the youngest of the family. One sister, Rebecca C., is a resident of Washington, D.C. the others are residents of Canada

Mr. Sherwood has been twice married, —First to Elizabeth Bridgeman, who died in 1868; and second to Mrs. Margaret Jones, to whom be was united in 1872, she being the daughter of Charles Beecham,, the family being Canadians of Scotch descent. By the first marriage there was one child, Edith, who is now the wife of Reuben R. Foley, proprieter of the Park Hotel at Saulte de Sainte Marie, Michigan. By she second marriage there are two children,— Myrtle and Ella

Mr. Sherwood is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was elected Mayor of the city in 1893 and was relected the succeeding year and is currently in office.

From the "Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula 1895."