Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman (April 21, 1867 – June 28, 1947)[1] was an American heiress and socialite who was prominent in New York and Newport society during the Gilded Age.

Secretary of the Navy), and Harold Brown,[5] who married Sophia's stepdaughter, Georgette Wetmore Sherman, in 1892.

In 1890, Sophia hired Newport architect Dudley Newton for a second addition to add a ballroom and service wing.

"[14] In 1910, François Fleming painted an oil portrait of Sophia where her "elegantly coifed pompadour is topped by a coronet, and furs and jewelry add to her presence.

[1] Through her eldest daughter, she was the grandmother of Eileen Sherman Gillespie (1915–2008), who became engaged to John Jacob Astor VI, but called off the wedding and, later, married banker John Jermain Slocum[32] (a descendant of John Jermain) who was the Harvard roommate of David Rockefeller,[33] and Phyllis Gillespie (1917–1972),[34] who married Alan T. Schumacher, an investment banker;[35] and Doris Beryl Gillespie (1921–1931), who died young.