Background
Sherman, Charles Phineas was born on June 8, 1874 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Phineas A. and Fanny (Lyman) Sherman.
Sherman, Charles Phineas was born on June 8, 1874 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Phineas A. and Fanny (Lyman) Sherman.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1896, Bachelor of Laws, 1898, Doctor of Civil Law, 1899. Studied in Rome and Paris. Doctor of Laws, National University, 1928.
1 daughter, Valerie Frances (Mistress Harold T. Beal). Married second, Elsa T. Liefeld, July 1, 1944. Admitted to Connecticut bar, 1898, Massachusetts bar and Supreme Court of United States, 1904.
Practiced at New Haven and Boston.
Instructor-elect political science, University of Texas, 1904. Instructor law, Yale, 1905-1907, assistant professor, 1907-1917.
Special lecturer Georgetown University Law School, 1918. Professor of law, and editor-in-chief Boston University Law Review, Boston University, 1920-1922, lecturer Washington and Lee University, 1924, William and Mary College, from 1924.
Lecturer Boston University Law School, 1935-1939, professor of law from 1939.
Professor of law, National U. Law School, 1926-1935. Librarian Yale Law Library, 1906-1909. Curator Yale Wheeler Library of Roman, Canon, Continental-European, and Latin-American Law, 1906-1917.
Charter member American Association Law Libraries.
Member American Bar Association, Promotion Roman Studies Society, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Selden Society, Classical Association of London, British School at Rome, New Commonwealth Society of London, Stair Society of Edinburgh, American Society Political and Social Science, Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law of Washington, American Society International Law. Pi Gamma Mu, Acacia, Book and Gavel (Yale).
Member American Bar Association, Promotion Roman Studies Society, New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Selden Society, Classical Association of London, British School at Rome, New Commonwealth Society of London, Stair Society of Edinburgh, American Society Political and Social Science, Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law of Washington, American Society International Law. Mason (32°,Kiloton).
Married Julia M. Rungee, September 5, 1906 (died January 3, 1938). Married second, Elsa T. Liefeld, July 1, 1944.