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the office of Davenport & Banks, at the
same time maintaining an office of his
own in Westport.
Mr. Sherwood has actively entered into
public matters, and has several times
been honored with public office. He was
a member of the Legislature in 191 5, serv-
ing on the judiciary committee. In 1917
he was reelected, which in itself is suffi-
cient warrant of his ability and the con-
fidence reposed in him by his constitu-
ents, and he again served on the judiciary
committee. Two years later he was for
a third time honored by his fellow-citi-
zens, and was House chairman of the
committee on cities and boroughs. In
192 1 he was again reelected Representative
and served on the judiciary com-
mittee.
Mr. Sherwood is a member of Temple
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Westport, Connecticut, and of Washington
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Nor-
walk, Connecticut. He is a member of
the Westport Country and the University
clubs of Bridgeport.
Mr. Sherwood married Edna Mason,
daughter of William B. Mason, of Jersey
City, New Jersey, but a native of England.
Their children are : Lois, and John
Mason Sherwood. The family attend the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr.
Sherwood is a trustee.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
W. and Lois A. (Osborn) Sherwood, was MATHEWSON, Clifford Earl,
born January 31, 1873, in Westport, Con-
Bnsiness Man.
necticut, and was educated in the public
schools there and in the South Norwalk
High School. After three or four years
spent in various employments, Mr. Sherwood
entered Yale Law School, from
which he was graduated in 1899 and admitted
to the bar in June of the same
year. He engaged in general practice of
his profession, and for two years was in
As sales manager and secretary of the
Norwalk Tire and Rubber Company, of
Norwalk, Connecticut, Mr. Mathewson
continues active in a line in which he has
been well known since 1902, at which time
he took over the entire management of
the Diamond Rubber Company's business
on the Pacific Coast and the Orient. Mr.
Mathewson is a native of the West, and
a member of an old New England fam-
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ily, of which numerous representatives
have chosen western homes.
(I) The founder of the branch of the
Mathewson family was James Mathew-
son, who came from England, locating at
Plymouth, Massachusetts, and moving,
about 1658, to Providence, Rhode Island.
He was born about 1624, and died in
1682. He married Hannah Field, daughter
of John Field, who died in 1703. Their
children were : Ruth
; James, bom in
1666, died in 1737; John, died in 1716;
Isabel, died in 1719; Thomas, born in
1673, died in 1735 ; Zacheriah ; Lydia
and Daniel, of whom further.
(II) Daniel Mathewson, son of James
and Hannah (Field) Mathewson, was
born in Providence, Rhode Island, January
28, 1683, died in Gloucester, Rhode
Island, January 13, 1751. He married
(first), February 10, 1704, Sarah Inman
(second), in 1732, Esther, surname unknown;
(third), September 26, 1742, Charity
Inman; (fourth), July 12, 1747, Lydia
Montague. There were seven children of
his first marriage, four of his second, one
of his third, and two of his fourth.
(III) Othniel Mathewson, son of Daniel
and Sarah (Inman") Mathewson, was
born February 2, 1705. He married, Feb-
ruary 3, 1733, Sarah Winson, and they
had six children.
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