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Oliver P. Sherraden
Keokuk County
A native of Ohio, born November 14, 1814. He received a good education and became a fine penman. In his youth he assisted his father on the old homestead farm in Ohio and when he became a young man he started to the west, settling first at Canton, Fulton county, Illinois, where for a few years he engaged in clerking in a store. While in Canton he was married to Miss Lydia M. Johnson, a native of Vermont, born October 25, 1821, a daughter of Ira and Mary (Perry) Johnson. After his marriage Mr. Sherraden continued to reside in Canton, Illinois for a short time and then removed to Princeton, that state, where he began business on his own account, purchasing a stock of goods and engaging in the conduct of a general mercantile store. On leaving that place he went to Richland, Iowa, where he served as a member of the legislature. In the spring of 1860, he sold out and removed to Council Bluffs. In his social relations Mr. Sherraden was an Odd Fellow and in his political views was a republican. He was a member of the Congregational church at Council Bluffs.
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