Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-16
.g gs* From the Cincinnati Commerciai.1 GENERAL aSiERMAN-flIS FATHER
 wOODBURY MAN.

When man becomes famous. there is dis. position on the part of the human race in gen. eral to look after his ancestors. So we find in our exchanges good daal has been said of the stock from which eGenefal Sherman sprung and the fact that hetsGerman papers have claimed him as q native of Ainst erlam i've be. lieye illustrates the iraccuracy of the state- metits printed. We snppose It to be of little importance to Gen. Sherslan, or any one else. who his ancestors were, but ii it is woith while, 10 say anything about them. it is proper to be accurate. and il is only far that the ,.frors al- ready ahnat should be corrected. The follow
 Ing statement Is ad hentic. ,s
 The local records of Connecticut. which are the best m the world. furnish ample and accu rate nlateiial.~~-A book 'uf sume local n,,e- Coihrri's History of Ancient Woodhury-
 gives the complete geneaIogy of the Sherman family, from the arrival in 1855 of Samuel sherman, the rotii,lion ancestor. in iStratford
 Conn. He WIS a man Of some note in bis time--a Puritan 6fthe Cromwell school. and one of he original preprictors of Wobdhury Conn. where the fimlly settled. His descem 'iant. Daniel SLerman. was cOtpmporaneous with Roger Sherman. but the relation bet weeD theln was several degrees removed. Daniel She man was evidpiitly d man of considerable. ability and great H6urnce. 5 He w.ss d iIr rnllpr ot the eo'H.nitter "f safety in Connecticut d,,- 1eint2 the entire Revolution, and served for six @ty tive coiisecuiiye sessions ofathir y.iwo aud half years as the representative of, his native town in the General Assembly of Connecticut. A gh d many anecdotes are told of hun, which p oye iin io have ieen full of humol as we'll us ot sense. He died shortly alter tils .Aduptiou of the Constitution. His son Taylu Shprman, was General Sherpai''ss er ndiather. Taylor was Il lawyer in Norw;,lk, CDniI., ard became Judge. He was one ot ihe commissioners sent " the State uf Cun,sclicutl io designate thu fire lands il, Ohi,,. now comprising the c1un
 lies of Huron and Erie. These lands were .cp- ,i+d bysUonhectcut fU-th sufferers by the fir, of ii. British and tories ! of ihe War of the Revolution, and We're afterwards subdiylde.t ,lnong tbu sufferers This. duty. with the .wierslip of some of those lands. probably 4lt- fpcted The attention of lhsl oldest son of Taylor tShpImati- CbarIes + Sherman-to Ohiu, h lSl0 wlien just Of age. slle emigraird 10 Ohio. startiLg for CHlcipnati, but was detained by the high waters of inc Hockh,ck,ny, at the tuwn nf Lancaster. then d mere hamlet. He settiet ai Lancaster as q lawyer, soon attained emi- irrlIcr. aud bscainea Judge ut thes Supreme. t1onrtsof Ohio il1 1923. .sa He ded 1929. whil. oai ihe beGch at Lpbape,sa Ohio. By the con
 rufrmg testimony oi all tlle old law yers Uf Ohio. ae had rare abiIIties ais ;iii advocate. and was
 genial, liberal aha very p pular citizrh. H.
 left SIX sons, of whom five are now tIving.- GeD.s sShsr,,,as..was born ill 1920 j.; lChas. [.
 who has bee.,s published as his nocles islshI. eldest brp,h.r. Senator Sherlnal1 is three years the Generals juner.aRlneaoa ssW tfao