MRS. PEARL EVANS SHERWOOD
SHERWOOD, MRS. PEARL EVANS: Homemaker; b Atlantic, Iowa Jan 28, 1880; d of Thomas E Evans-Annis Jane Coker; ed Atlantic HS 1898; U of Iowa, lib training; m Andrew Harold Sherwood May 22, 1906 Fairfield; s Robert Bruce, Gilbert Sherwood (dec 1910); d Annis Jane; 1899-1904 & 1905 bkkpr F M Alexander Book Store, Atlantic; 1899-1904 bkkpr S G Hunter Iron Works; soc reporter Atlantic Messenger, collector for Atlantic Gas Co; 1903-05 1st librarian Atlantic Carnegie Lib; 1905-06 reporter Atlantic Teleg; 1906-16 ptr of husband in theatrical stock co, US & Canada; 1916- homemaker; 1904-05 chmn exec com Atlantic Alumni HS Assn; 1905 co chmn Kings Daughters; 1916 co chmn Iowa Equal Suffrage Assn; past oracle RNA; past pres Jackson Atlantic, Cass Co. & S W Iowa Dist PTAs; Atlantic Womens Club; B&PW; Iowa Assn for Social Welfare; BPODoes Congl Ch; hobbies: gardening, wild flowers & Indian bead work; off & res 13th & Cedar, Atlantic.
Key to Abbreviations
From "Who's Who in Iowa," by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 202.
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