LUTHER SHELDON,
Son of James and Harriet (Patterson) Sheldon, both now deceased,
was born in Albion, Michigan, on January 4, 1841. He attended
school at the Albion College, and then clerked in drug stores in Albion from
the age of eighteen to twenty-one. For ten years, 1860-70, he carried
on a drug business at Kalimazoo, Michigan, member of the firm of
Johnson & Sheldon. In 1870 he removed to Norfolk, where he
engaged in the business in which he still continues, dealer in building
material of every description.
At Richmond, Virginia, October 12, 1876, he married Jennie S. Baldwin,
who was born at Newark, New Jersey, August 25, 1854, daughter
of Thomas S. Baldwin, now deceased, and Jane M. Baldwin, now a resident
of Richmond. Their children are three living: Jennie Louise,
Thomas Baldwin and Luther, one deceased, Charles Fredk., died September
6, 1878, aged one year twenty-one days.
