WI BIO - Winnebago Co - SHEERAR, I. H.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, v II, p 1186

Dr. I. H. SHEERAR, dentist, Omro [Winnebago County], Wisconsin, was born 01 
April 1840 in Virgil [Cortland County], New York. He learned his profession 
in Cortland [Cortland County], New York, beginning in 1859, where he remained 
one year. He then went to Virgil [Cortland County], New York, and began his 
profession at his old homestead, where he continued three years. The then 
went to Omro Junction, Wisconsin [in Winnebago County, about four miles west 
of Oshkosh], and lived one year. He then traveled and practiced, and finally 
located [in Omro, Wisconsin], being there from the fall of 1863 to the 
following spring [1864], and then went to Wausau [Marathon County], 
Wisconsin, and was engaged in his profession there one year. He returned to 
Omro Junction and practiced until 1878, then moved to Omro, and has since 
practiced here.

On 14 November 1866 at Omro Junction [Winnebago County, Wisconsin], he [I. H. 
SHEERAR] was married to Miss Josephine U. BEALS, who was born 09 November 
1846 in Wheatland, Walworth County [should be Kenosha County], Wisconsin [and 
died in 1929]. They [I. H. and Josephine U. (BEALS) SHEERAR] have one 
daughter, Florence, born on 02 January 1868, who died 12 June 1868 [14 June 
1868, aged five months and twelve days; buried in Omro Union Cemetery, next 
to Omro Junction Cemetery; and a son] Frank B. SHEERAR, born 19 September 
1870. Mr. SHEERAR is a member of the Knights of Honor, and the Good 
Templars' Lodge. He has served as a member of the City Board. [In addition 
to Florence SHEERAR, also buried in Omro Union Cemetery are: Dr. I. H. 
SHEERAR, who died in 1926; his wife Josephine U. (BEALS) SHEERAR, who died in 
1929, John B. SHEERAR, born in 1882, after this biography was published, who 
died in 1960; and Mary SHEERAR, born in 1886.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly