Background

Dickerman, George Sherwood was born on June 5, 1843 in Mount Carmel, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ezra and Sarah (Jones) Dickerman.

Education

Graduate Williston Seminary, 1861. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1865, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, 1868. (Doctor of Divinity, Bates College, Maine, 1895).

Career

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

Achievements

• George Sherwood Dickerman has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Elizabeth M. Street, November 29, 1870.

Father:

Ezra Dickerman

Mother:

Sarah (Jones) Dickerman

Spouse:

Elizabeth M. Street