Sherburne, John Samuel, 1843-1863.

Moses D. Sherburne was a St. Paul attorney, a district court judge of the Minnesota second judicial district, and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota Territory from 1853 to 1857. He is also credited with helping to guide the territory into statehood. He was born on January 25, 1808 at Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine, to Samuel Sherburne and Lucy Carson. In 1853 Sherburne was appointed an associate justice of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court, at which time he moved to Minnesota with his wife Sophia Dyer Whitney and their children.

Sarah S. Sherburne was born April 26, 1839, the fifth child of Moses D. Sherburne and Sophia D. Whitney. She married Dr. Albert Gallatin Brisbine on March 11, 1856. They had four children: Albert Sherburne Brisbine (Nov. 28, 1857), James John Brisbine (April 30, 1862), Sarah Brisbine (April 22, 1864) who died in infancy, and Hetty Cornwall Brisbine (May 11, 1867). Hetty married Simeon Mills Hayes, who wrote a biography of Moses Sherburne for the Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Vol. X, 1905.

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