Horatio Nelson Sherman was the eldest of the twelve children born to Aaron Simmons Sherman and Lydia Sherman (née Whitney). He was born at the now-historic Burnham Tavern in Machias, Maine where his parents had taken residence in the first years of their marriage.
His father Aaron Simmons Sherman was an architect of some note who came to Washington County Maine to work with Thomas Ruggles. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of Colonel Jeremiah O'Brien of Revolutionary War fame and his housekeeper Thankful Whitney.
Horatio Nelson Sherman married twice.
His first wife (by whom he had all issue) was Mary Snow Jones of Wareham, Massachusetts.
He died prematurely in Derby, (then called "Birmingham") Connecticut at the age of forty-seven, a victim of his second wife's poisoning. Indeed Lydia (née Danbury) Sherman murdered (by arsenic poisoning) all but two of his four living children as well.
Horatio Nelson Sherman, Sr. had, by first wife, six children in all. Two of those children died of natural causes and not at the hand of his second wife.
His father Aaron Simmons Sherman was an architect of some note who came to Washington County Maine to work with Thomas Ruggles. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of Colonel Jeremiah O'Brien of Revolutionary War fame and his housekeeper Thankful Whitney.
Horatio Nelson Sherman married twice.
His first wife (by whom he had all issue) was Mary Snow Jones of Wareham, Massachusetts.
He died prematurely in Derby, (then called "Birmingham") Connecticut at the age of forty-seven, a victim of his second wife's poisoning. Indeed Lydia (née Danbury) Sherman murdered (by arsenic poisoning) all but two of his four living children as well.
Horatio Nelson Sherman, Sr. had, by first wife, six children in all. Two of those children died of natural causes and not at the hand of his second wife.
Horatio Nelson Sherman was the eldest of the twelve children born to Aaron Simmons Sherman and Lydia Sherman (née Whitney). He was born at the now-historic Burnham Tavern in Machias, Maine where his parents had taken residence in the first years of their marriage.
His father Aaron Simmons Sherman was an architect of some note who came to Washington County Maine to work with Thomas Ruggles. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of Colonel Jeremiah O'Brien of Revolutionary War fame and his housekeeper Thankful Whitney.
Horatio Nelson Sherman married twice.
His first wife (by whom he had all issue) was Mary Snow Jones of Wareham, Massachusetts.
He died prematurely in Derby, (then called "Birmingham") Connecticut at the age of forty-seven, a victim of his second wife's poisoning. Indeed Lydia (née Danbury) Sherman murdered (by arsenic poisoning) all but two of his four living children as well.
Horatio Nelson Sherman, Sr. had, by first wife, six children in all. Two of those children died of natural causes and not at the hand of his second wife.
His father Aaron Simmons Sherman was an architect of some note who came to Washington County Maine to work with Thomas Ruggles. His mother was the illegitimate daughter of Colonel Jeremiah O'Brien of Revolutionary War fame and his housekeeper Thankful Whitney.
Horatio Nelson Sherman married twice.
His first wife (by whom he had all issue) was Mary Snow Jones of Wareham, Massachusetts.
He died prematurely in Derby, (then called "Birmingham") Connecticut at the age of forty-seven, a victim of his second wife's poisoning. Indeed Lydia (née Danbury) Sherman murdered (by arsenic poisoning) all but two of his four living children as well.
Horatio Nelson Sherman, Sr. had, by first wife, six children in all. Two of those children died of natural causes and not at the hand of his second wife.
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