The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-12
GRNBRAL SIBERIAN.
His Birth aud Descsnt-Extracas from
His Early Letters.

We take the following from Colonel
Bowman's forthcoming Life of General
Sherman, which is soon to be published;
William Tecumseh Sherman was born
in Lancaster, Ohio, on the 9Th of February
1920. The branch of the Sherman family
to which he belongs is descended from the
Honorable Samuel Sherman, of Dedhsm,
in the county Of Essex, England, who came
to Massachusetts in the year 1884, in com.
psny with his brother, the Rev. John
Sherman, and their cousin, Captain John
Sherman. The two latter settled at Mil
ford, Connecticut, and became the found
ers of useful and influential families.
Roger Sherman was 8 descendant of the
captains. samuel Sherman, after residing
for a time at Wetherfisld, Connecticut, re-
moved to Stamford, and finally to STRAIT
ford, in the same State, where the family
remained for many years.
Taylor Sherman, one of the descendants
OF Samuel Sherman, who died in 1915, was
for many years judge of n of the courts
of his native State. On bis death his
widow removed with her children, to what
is now the town of Lancaster, in Fairfield
county, in the State of Ohio. Charles
Robert Sherman, the son of Taylor Sher-
man, and the father of General Sherman,
was born on the 2eth of September, 1888,
and had one brother, Daniel, and a sister
named Betsey. He was an accomplished
lawyer, very successful as an sdvocate, and
from 1923 TO 1923, when he died ofcholera.
was n of the judges of the Supreme
Court of the State of Ohio. On the 9Th Of
May, 1910, he married Mary Hoyt, by
whom ne had ten children first, Charles |
Taylor, q prominent lawyer, formerly of
Mansfield, Ohio, now of Washington city;
second, Mary Elizabeth; third, James;
fourth, Amelia fifth, Julia sixth, VIII
liam Tecumseh; seventh, Parker; eighth,
John, for many years an influential me-.
Der of the House of Representatives from
Ohio, now Senator from the same State
ninth, Susan Hoyt; ard tenth, Frances.
Bis death lett this large family in very
moderate circumstances. Shortly after
ward, being then but little past nine years
If sge, William Tecumseh was adopted by
he Honorable Thomas Ewing, one of his
most intimate friends, as amember
If his own family. Mr.. Ewing sent him
% achool in Lancaster until his sixteenth
year, when, having, as q member of Con-
yress from Ohio, the privilege of nOmina-
ing q youth from his Congressional Dis.
Iict for appointment as q cadet at the
United States Military Academy st West
Point, be exercised this right by procuring
he warrant for his youthful charge.
In one of his letters, dated February
18th, 1889, he writes from West Point
aRn is much elsted at the idea of get
ing free of West Point next June. He
loes not intend remaining in the army
more than one year, then to resign and
tudy law, probably. No doubt you sd-
nire his choice; but, to speak plain and
.andidly, l had rather be q blacksmith.
the nearer we come to that dread.
I'll epoch, q grsdustion-dsy the higher
,pinion l conceive of the duties and lite Of
n officer of the United States army, and
he more confirmed in the wish of spend-
Dg my life in the service of my country.
Think of that. Curse it the church bugle
las Just blown, and in q moment I must
,ut ON my side-srms and march to church,
o listen to a two hours sermon, with its
wenty divisions and twenty-one sub divis-
y > but l believe it is q gen.
fact that what people are compelled 10
they dislike.
"As we have, then, two or three dancing
each week, al which the gray bob
all is sufficient recommendation for an in.
reduction to any one, you can well con
Give bow the cadets have always had the
eputatiOn, and still have, here in the East |
# being great gAllAnts and ladies' men.
God only knows how l will sustain that
,eputstion |"
Here is 8 glimpse of his tastes and Occu-