Background
Dickerman, George Sherwood was born on June 5, 1843 in Mount Carmel, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ezra and Sarah (Jones) Dickerman.
Dickerman, George Sherwood was born on June 5, 1843 in Mount Carmel, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ezra and Sarah (Jones) Dickerman.
Graduate Williston Seminary, 1861. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1865, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, 1868. (Doctor of Divinity, Bates College, Maine, 1895).
Ordained Congleton ministry, August 5, 1868. Pastor, Normal, Illinois, 1868-1869, West. Haven, Connecticut, 1870-1873, Lewiston, Maine, 1874-1883, First Church, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1883-1891, Orange Park, Florida, 1892-1893. Field superintendent, American Missionary Association, 1893-1895.
General field agent, Conference for Education in the South, 1899-1901.
General field agent, Southern Education Board, 1902-1905, associate secretary, 1905-1910. General field agent, John F. Slater Fund, 1907-1910.
Author: Families of Dickerman Ancestry, 1898. The House of Plant, 1899.
Home: New Haven, Connecticut
Married Elizabeth M. Street, November 29, 1870.