1925 Biography - Thomas Sheridan
Thomas H. Sheridan, born in Pope County, 1860; taught in that county several years and was county superintendent of Pope County Schools. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and was elected to the State Senate 1890. He married Fanny, only child of Josiah and Abigal Throgmorton in 1892 and came to Vienna to live. He practiced law, edited the "News," served as Judge and States Attorney of this county. He left the county about 1914 moving first to Cairo, Ill., later to Hutsonville, Ill., where he died in 1918. He was a republican, a member of the M. E. Church. He left a widow and one child, Josiah, who is a druggist and lives in Chicago, Ill.
Extracted 08 Feb 2017 by Norma Hass from 1925 A History of Johnson County, Illinois, by Mrs. P. T. Chapman, page 428.
