Born: March 14, 1826, Buckland, Massachusetts. Died: April 14, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts.

Courtesy of Chautauqua Institution Archives

After moving to Boston as a teenager, Sherwin studied music under Lowell Mason. He later worked at the New England Conservatory of Music, and taught singing in Massachusetts and New York. He was the first music director at the Chautauqua Movement near Chautauqua, New York, and was musical editor at Biglow and Main publishers.

Music:

1. Awake! for the Trumpet Is Sounding!
2. Bread of Life
3. Chautauqua, Evening Praise
4. Galilee, Bright Galilee
5. Kelley
6. Master’s Call, The
7. Monsell (Sherwin)
8. Sound the Battle Cry
9. Wake the Song
10. Whom Have I in Heaven?