Teacher at Old Orchard School in Webster Groves, Missouri. Sherardson also worked in the Customs Department in St. Louis. Collection contains diaries he kept for 65 years. Topics include teaching in the rural midwest and at St. Louis boarding schools; work at Cupples Station for the Missouri Pacific Railroad; street car strikel and the World's Fair.
FOLDERS LIST
1. Diary, 1987
2. Diary, 1888
3. Diary, 1889
4. Diary, 1890
5. Diary, 1891
1892: missing
6. Diary, 1893
7. Diary, 1894
8. Diary, 1895
9. Diary, 1896
10. Diary, 1897
11. Diary, 1898
12. Diary, 1899
13. Diary, 1900
14. Diary, 1901
15. Diary, 1902
16. Diary, 1903
17. Diary, 1904
18. Diary, 1905
19. Diary, 1906
20. Diary, 1907
21. Diary, 1908
22. Diary, 1909
23. Diary, 1910
24. Diary, 1911
25. Diary, 1912
26. Diary, 1913
27. Diary, 1914
28. Diary, 1915
29. Diary, 1916
30. Diary, 1917
31. Diary, 1918
32. Diary, 1919
33. Diary, 1920
34. Diary, 1921
35. Diary, 1922
36. Diary, 1923
37. Diary, 1924
38. Diary, 1925
39. Diary, 1926
40. Diary, 1927
41. Diary, 1928
42. Diary, 1929
43. Diary, 1930
44. Diary, 1931
45. Diary, 1932
46. Diary, 1933
47. Diary, 1934
48. Diary, 1935
49. Diary, 1936
50. Diary, 1937
51. Diary, 1938
52. Diary, 1939
53. Diary, 1940
54. Diary, 1941
55. Diary, 1942
56. Diary, 1943
57. Diary, 1944
58. Diary, 1945
59. Diary, 1946
60. Diary, 1947
61. Diary, 1948
62. Diary, 1949
63. Diary, 1950
64. Diary, 1951
65. Diary, 1952
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