Butte County Biographies

JUDGE W. S. SHERWOOD

Transcribed by:  Betty Wilson, August 2004

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            JUDGE W. S. SHERWOOD died at Alleghany, Sierra county, June 26, 
1870.  He was a pioneer of the state, and an early resident of Butte county, 
being here in 1849.  Butte county was his home till 1851, when he removed to San 
Francisco.  He was a member of the constitutional convention at Monterey, and 
was elected the first judge of this judicial district by the legislature, when 
it was known and designated as the ninth.  He was an able and generous-hearted 
man, whose usefulness may have been somewhat impaired by his active 
participation in partisan politics.  He was the Democratic nominee for Senator 
from this county at the election of 1853, and was beaten by Peck, the Whig 
nominee, who became somewhat famous during his senatorial term as the senator 
who had been offered a bribe to vote in favor of bringing on the senatorial 
election.  In San Francisco he practiced law for a time, and in 1868 removed to 
Sierra county.  There he ran for state senator, and was beaten.

History of Butte County, California: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. 
II -  Harry L. Wells & W. L. Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco, Cal., 1882., 
pages 191-194.