David Sherick

DAVID SHERICK.

David Sherick, retired farmer, has spent almost his entire life in agricultural pursuits, and only put away the plow and laid down the hoe within the last two or three years, when, feeling old age creeping on him, he decided to move into town, and enjoy some of the comforts for which he had labored so long and industriously. It is the men who, like David Sherick, have worked early and late, year in and year out, tilling the soil and feeding the cattle, who have given Ohio the proud name which she bears of being such a great agricultural state and have enabled her to rank so high in this respect.

David Sherick was born on a farm in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1831, where he lived until he was twenty-two years of age. His childish memories take him back to the days of log school houses, and wide open stretches of country, — country which looked just as fertile in those days, but w-hich as yet had not been under cultivation, for settlers were few and far between in those times, and Ohio was one of the new states which had been carved out of the Northwest territory some years before. Mr. Sherick lived the life of the average farmer's boy, in the winter time attending school and looking after the cattle, and in the summer, plowing and harvesting the grain. When he was twenty-two he left the home farm and started out in life for himself, going to Liberty township, Hancock county, where he bought a farm and built him a home, and a little later, brought a wife, and there they toiled and saved, taking life a little easier as the years went by, and the children grew tip and shared their burdens; and finally, in 1899, th moved into Findlay to spend the remainder of their days.

Mr. Sherick was married December 28, 1854, in Liberty township, Hancock county, Ohio, to Catherine, daughter of George Heck, and they have had nine children, of whom seven are now living, as follows: Peter; Barbara, wife of T. C. Boyd; Martha, wife of R. M. Poe; Irene, wife of N. L. Acocks; Emma, wife of I. L. McGee; John H., and Maud. Mr. Sherick is a member of the Church of God, and in his poUtics has been a life-long Repubhcan.

Our subject's father was Peter Sherick, lx)rn in Fayette count, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1798, and died June 14, 1886. He, too, was a "miller of the soil," and our subject, David was his only son. Our subject's grandfather was Christian Sherick, who was born in Pennsylvania and died there, 'the Sherick family is of German descent.

Mr. Sherick has hved a useful and industrious Hfe, has managed his business affairs with intelUgence and is now one of the prosperous farmers of the community, taking his well earned rest and enjoying the society of his children and friends.

As printed in A Centennial biographical history of Hancock County, Ohio : embellished with portraits of many well known people of Hancock County, who have been or are prominent in its history and development (1903). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.