Henry Sherwood (October 9, 1813 – November 10, 1896) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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. Henry Sherwood was born in

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. He moved with his parents to

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, in 1817, and attended the common schools. During the Texas Revolution, Sherwood served in the Texas Army under

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in 1836 and 1837. He moved to

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, and settled in

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, in 1840. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1847 and practiced his profession in Wellsboro. He was elected burgess of Wellsboro. Sherwood was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. He was the president of the Wellsboro & Lawrenceville Railroad and of the Pennsylvania division of the Pine Creek road. He died in Wellsboro in 1896. Interment in the Wellsboro Cemetery.

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