Kate B. Sherwood Tent # 9 instituted May 29, 1920, was chartered August 4, 1920. Mrs. Nellie M. Goodman, National President; Katherine McKinley was Department President, and Inez Pearl Gilbert, was Department Secretary.
Members of the tent chose their name from Katherine Margaret Brownlee born September 24, 1841 in Poland, Ohio, daughter of Judge James and Rebecca (Mullen) Brownlee . She married Isaac Ruth Sherwood on September 1, 1859, and went with him to Bryan, Ohio, where he was editing the Williams County Gazette. She immediately became his assistant and learned every part of the printer's trade. During the Civil War, she published the paper while her husband was in the Army. After the war was over, they moved to Toledo, Ohio where Mrs. Sherwood identified herself with many civic activities. She also contributed work to several daily papers. From 1833-1898, she edited the Woman's Department of the National Tribune, the official organ of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).
Kate became most widely known for her work in national associations of women. In 1879, she organized a number of auxiliary societies to the GAR in the west. In 1883, they were united with the New England Societies to form the Women's Relief Corps, of which she was the first National Secretary, and the second National President. Her most important work in this organization was Chairman of the Committee on Pensions for Soldiers' Widows. She was a member of the National Council of Women, and worker on national committees for the DAR.
Mrs. Sherwood's tolerant spirit, free from all animosity, received recognition in 1887 when she was asked to write a poem for the unveiling of a memorial to Albert Sidney Johnston at New Orleans. She died February 15, 1915. Funeral services were held in Washington, D. C.
The above-referenced material was taken from "A Short History of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 and the Nebraska Department of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 issued by the Nebraska Department Bicentennial Committee.'
