The 1880 census shows Sherlock, a bookkeeper, age 27, living with his widowed mother Nancy C . Tobey, age 64 in the household of Catheran McLenan (widow) and her 3 daughters in Dubuque, Iowa. The 1930 shows Sherlock, widowed, age 77, living with his son Harry C. Tobey, age 45 and his daughter-in-law Ruth M. Tobey (b. Indiana)