Notes for: Samuel Todd Sherwood

Samuel Todd Sherwood was a Doddridge County gunsmith whose reputation for excellent workmanship has only grown over time. Sherwood rifles are prized to this day by gun collectors everywhere.

When Sherwood's wife, Drusilla Bland, died in 1913, her obituary focused as much on her husband as it did on herself. An excerpt:
"S. T. Sherwood was for more than a quarter of a century one of the best pioneers in this section of West Virginia. Having established a reputation as a gunsmith second to none in the entire state, the marvelous skill and accuracy of his workmanship were known to our fathers over a wide area of the Western foothills."

His own obituary described him in this way:
"He was one of the best, if not the best, gunsmith in the U.S. His make of guns has been used all over the U.S."