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John Bascom SHERRILL
John Bascom Sherrill was born in Alexander county on February 23d, 1864, and is a son of the late Rev. M. V. Sherrill, a Methodist minister whose ministerial service covered a period of thirty years. His mother was Miss Martha J. Douglas, a daughter of David Douglas, a farmer of Iredell county. He was educated under Professor W. M. Brooks, of Olin, N.C., his brother-in-law, until he was eighteen years of age. He began his career in the newspaper field when he was sixteen years of age, editing an amateur paper at Olin in 1880. Later was on the staff of the Lenoir Topic. In 1885 he removed to Concord, and bought out a half interest in the Concord Times, a year later buying the other half interest. In June, 1887, bought out the Concord Register and consolidated the two papers. In 1902, he bought out the Standard, and consolidated it with the Times. The Concord Times has been conducted in connection with a large job office, and the plant prints eight or ten other papers beside its own. He is secretary and treasurer of the North Carolina Press Association, and has been for sixteen successive years. He was post master of Concord for four years during Cleveland's first administration, and a member of the graded school board. He married Miss Anna Montgomery a daughter of Judge W. J. Montgomery, and has four children, three daughters and a son. He is a steward of the Central Methodist Church, of Concord. Source: Prominent People of North Carolina: Brief Biographies of Leading People for Ready Reference Purposes (Asheville, North Carolina: Evening News Publishing Company, 1906), 45.
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