[3] The township was named after Lowell P. Sherman, an early settler.

The township contains the county's only designated Michigan State Historic Sites: the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and Zion Evangelical Lutheran School on North Oberlin Road, which were both built in 1904.

[5] As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 1,029 people, 429 households, and 310 families residing in the township.

There were 950 housing units at an average density of 27.3 per square mile (10.5/km2).

22.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.