Sherman Day Wakefield

Background

Wakefield, Sherman Day was born on July 12, 1894 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Son of Homer and Julia Pearson (Sherman) Wakefield.

Education

Graduate Suffield Academy, Suffield, Connecticut, 1915, Meadville Theological School, Chicago, 1923. Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Chicago, 1924. Post-graduate student Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry, Berkeley, 1925.

Bachelor of Science, School of Library Services, Columbia University, 1928.

Honorary Doctor of Letters, De Landas University, Los Angeles, 1940.

Career

Research assistant to minister, West Side Unitarian Church, New York, 1925-1926. Assistant New York Public Library, 1928-1929. Bibliographer Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, New York, 1929-1934.

Genealogical, researcher and writer American History Company, New York, 1937-1939.

Associate editor The Arbitrator, New York, 1939-1943. Genealogist for Wakefield family.

Editor Research Institute America, New York, 1941-1942. Indexer, Encyclopedia Americana, 1942-1943.

Staff editor and bibliographer, The Grolier Encyclopedia, 1943-1947.

Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1947-1949, World Wide Encyclopedia, 1949-1950, Home University Encyclopedia, 1950-1951, 55-63, New Human Interest Library, 1955-1963.

Achievements

• Sherman Day Wakefield has been listed as a notable editor, and bibliographer, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served from private to sergeant United States Engineers, 1918-1919. Secretary Lincoln; member of advisory board First Humanist Society New New York Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Illinois, McLean Company history societies, American Humanist Association (member church and State Committee 1955-1963), Rationalist Press Association (London), American Civil Liberties Union.

Connections

Married Eva Ingersoll (Brown) Swasey, July 8, 1932.

Father:

Homer Wakefield

Mother:

Julia Pearson (Sherman) Wakefield

Spouse:

Eva Ingersoll