Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.118

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where he lived for a short time upon a farm he had purchased, and then removed to Armstrong county. In 1854 he emigrated to Illinois, where he lived but a short time and came back to Johnstown, where he died in 1855.
    Dr. Sheridan received a rudimentary education in the common schools, and also attended Indiana academy, at Indiana, Pennsylvania. In 1839 he came to Johnstown and took a position for six years in the office of the canal collector, and, at the end of that time, in the forwarding house of Henry Kratzer, for three years. While holding a position in the collector's office, the canal being closed during the winter, he improved himself by attending, during the winter months, Jefferson college, of Washington county, this State. He, however, did not graduate, as he was compelled to make his own way and could not afford it. Having resolved to pursue the profession of medicine as a life vocation, he entered upon the study of the profession in the office of Dr. John Lowman, a prominent physician of Johnstown. After a faithful preparatory study he entered Jefferson Medical college, of Philadelphia, from which renowned institution he graduated in 1849. He at once located in Johnstown, and, with the exception of four years, has practiced continually and successfully at that place. During the four years referred to he pursued a drug and farming business at Earlville, Illinois.
    Dr. Sheridan has practiced the profession of medicine during a period that has been marked by the great strides in its progress. Of this progress he has been a part. He has been a close student of human nature, and has ever lent his influence to every move intended to elevate the standard of his profession and promote a bond of fellowship among its members. He was one of the founders of the Cambria County Medical society, and has served it a number of times as president. Of the original members of the society, Dr. Sheridan is one of the few members now living. Politically he was a Democrat, prior to the organization of the Republican party, when he became an adherent of that party, and continued to affiliate with it until 1892, when he espoused the cause of the Prohibition party. Although always manifesting a normal interest in politics and lending his influence to the cause of good government, yet he has never had the time nor the inclination to enter the role of the politician as an office-seeker.
    He is an honorable and respected member and elder of the First Presbyterian church of Johnstown, and for several years was superintendent of its Sabbath-school.
    On the 21st of June, 1851, Dr. Sheridan and Emily Speer, daughter of William Speer, of Massachusetts, were united in marriage. To this union have been born the following children: Mary E., wife of B. F. Speedy, a member of the banking firm of Speedy, Brown & Barry, of Johnstown; Sallie C., wife of Jacob Layton, formerly a carpenter, contractor and builder of Johnstown, now in the employ of a Pittsburg refrigerator company; Dr. John C., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volumne; Harry, for several years a time-clerk in the office of the C. I. Co.; George, a blacksmith in the employ of the Johnson company; William S., a clerk in the same company; Martha, wife of George Erisman, a machinist in the employ of the C. I. Co.; Emily and Jessie, both at home. After the death of his first wife he married as his second wife Mrs. Lizzie H. L. Linton, widow of Peter Linton and daughter of lawyer Hutchinson, a prominent attorney of Ebensburg, this county.

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