Sidney Sherwood

Sidney Sherwood was born on March 28, 1860, in Ballston Spa, New York – one of six (two males, 4 females) – to Thomas Burr Sherwood (1816–1883), a lawyer and farmer, and Mary Frances Beattie (maiden; 1822–1903). Sherwood earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in June 1891, where, in 1892, he succeeded Richard Theodore Ely (1854–1943) as Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins. Ely, that same year, left for the University of Wisconsin–Madison to become head of the political economy program.^[1] Though a student of Ely, Sherwood was one of the early American marginalists.^[a] Sherwood served as Chair at Johns Hopkins until his death August 5, 1901, at Ballston Center, at his mother's home, age 41.^[2] He died of blood poisoning from an infection following an accidental cut to his right hand July 26, 1901, while trimming a tree during a vacation on a farm in Ballston.^[3]

Sherwood, earlier, from 1884 to 1885, studied law at Columbia University and practiced law in New York three years after as a partner with Abner Charles Thomas (1844–1911). Before that, in 1879, Sherwood earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton. He began his doctorate studies in politics and history at Johns Hopkins in 1888,^[4] where he studied economics under Professor Richard T. Ely, and History under Professor Herbert Baxter Adams (1850–1901).

1891–1892: Instructor Finance – University of Pennsylvania

1892-1895: Associate in Economics – Johns Hopkins University

1895-1901: Associate Professor Economics – Johns Hopkins University

One of his older sisters, Mary Sherwood, MD (1856–1935), was an influential physician, educator, and spokesperson for preventive medicine, public health, women's health, childcare. A younger sister, Margaret Pollock Sherwood (1864–1955), was an English professor at Wellesley College.