• The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
    Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
    Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.

  • Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I pray that this nation does not forget the loss of lives from this horrible event. Yesterday conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I worry about what is to come. Please love one another and your family in these trying times - Spark

P.L. Sherman axe maker

R

rmarshall100

Joined
Dec 9, 2013
Messages
3
I am looking for any and all information that I can find on P.L. Sherman, an axe maker in mid 19th century from New York state, I believe. Thanks!
 
LOL... well I know that he, allegedly, made my antique broad axe that my parents picked up many years ago when we were living in Vermont. Other than what I wrote in my post, that's about it. The axe is stamped with his name and CAST-STEEL on one side and what appears to be ROBERTS ??? VIENNA on the other side. I'd love to know more. :) Thanks for the reply!
 
I'll try to put together some pictures tonight... I found the same link you did as well as an auction listing from 2008 for a very similar axe.
 
rmarshall100 said:
LOL... well I know that he, allegedly, made my antique broad axe that my parents picked up many years ago when we were living in Vermont. Other than what I wrote in my post, that's about it. The axe is stamped with his name and CAST-STEEL on one side and what appears to be ROBERTS ??? VIENNA on the other side. I'd love to know more. :) Thanks for the reply!
Click to expand...

Thanks for the background behind your question. Besides what was already mentioned, there's not much more out there on the web.

Phineas L. SHERMAN
Birth: 14 Jun 1802 of Oneida, New York
Death: 27 Dec 1873 Shellrock, Butler, Iowa
Marriage: 17 Aug 1830 Plainfield, Otsego, New York
Father: (poss) William SHERMAN
from http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=5245:115&ref2=5245:116


"...Also, found a "nugget" in the form of letters written to the Oneida County
Historical Society by Frank Dempster Sherman in 1911 - stating that the
father of the Phineas L. Sherman born in Deerfield Township, Oneida County
in 1802 was HAZARD SHERMAN !!! I have been trying to determine the parentage
of said Phineas L. Sherman and his Brother or (Cousin) John Wilberforce
Sherman for years. Now back to the deed office in Utica and found that all
of Hazard's properties were in Oneida County..."
from Peggy Booker at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SHERMAN/1999-08/0935632489
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top