Sherman, Frank Asbury, 1841-1915

Biography

He enlisted on July 28, 1862 and served three years in the civil war as a corporal in Company H of the Fourth and Nineteenth Maine regiments. He was wounded several times (Battle of Fredericksburg) and lost his left arm in the Battle of the Wilderness. At the conclusion of the war, he entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College. He was graduated with a bachelor of science in 1870 and that of master of science in 1873. He was an instructor of mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute briefly after his first degree and then returned to Dartmouth as associate professor of mathematics in the Chandler School. He was the architect of Chandler's extensive 1871 remodeling of Moor Hall and the construction of the Hanover Grade School. In 1872 he was promoted to a full professorship and, in 1893, upon the merging of the Chandler School with the college, he became professor of mathematics on the Chandler foundation.

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