Sol N. Sheridan

Sheridan was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1858, the son of Solomon N. Sheridan and Anne Byrne Sheridan. He moved to Ventura, California, with his parents and six siblings in 1873. ==Newspaperman==

Sheridan began working in the newspaper business for the Ventura Signal, which was owned by his brother E. M. Sheridan. He next moved to San Francisco and in 1882 became a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle in Washington, D.C. He was aboard the USS Charleston to report on the Spanish surrender at Guam. After the war, he traveled extensively through Asia and the Pacific and became the associate editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser in Honolulu. ==Political and civic efforts==

Upon his return from Hawaii, Sheridan worked for two years as private secretary to U.S. Senator Frank Putnam Flint. While on Flint's staff, Sheridan served as secretary to the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals (of which Flint was chairman) and traveled to Panama during the construction of the Panama Canal and also along the west coast of Mexico. ==Author==

Sheridan was also an author. His "History of Ventura County, California" was published in 1926. He also wrote children's books, including "Billy Vanilla: A Story of the Snowbird Country" (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1919), "The Typhoon's Secret" (Doubleday, Page & Company 1920), and "The Little Spotted Seal" (Harper & Brothers 1929). ==Personal life and death==

Sheridan did not marry. He took in three homeless boys, raising and educating them. He was buried at the Ventura City Cemetery. Sheridan's papers are maintained at the research library at The Museum of Ventura County. ==References==