Adiel Sherwood
Burch, Walter Jarrett Adiel Sherwood (1791-1879) helped establish some of the first antebellum efforts in education, temperance, and mission outreach in Georgia, especially among Georgia Baptists. Notably, he was head of a school in Eatonton, professor at Columbian College in Washington, DC, chair of sacred literature at Mercer University, president of Shurtleff College in Illinois, president of Masonic College in Missouri, then back to Georgia in 1857 as president...