About: Carl G. Sherwood

Carl G. Sherwood (January 18, 1855 – August 18, 1938) was a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1922 to 1931. Born in Whitney Point, New York, to George Sherwood, a farmer, and Mary Ann Jeffords, Sherwood attended high school in Binghamton, New York. He did not attend a college, but read law, first with E. K Clark in Binghamton, and then with A. R. McCoy in Clinton, Iowa, to gain admission to the bar in the Dakota Territory, in 1881. He entered into practice in what would later become Clark County, South Dakota, also serving as the county's register of deeds from 1882 to 1986. He was elected as a delegate to state constitutional conventions in 1883 and 1889, was thereafter a member of the South Dakota State Senate, representing the 29th District of South Dakota from 1889 to 1891.