The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-05-09

Correspondence 10 Cincinnati Enqulrer,l
Much has been written about the
Shermans and the ENinga but | never
could understand the relations between
the two families, Yesterday ran
across person familiar with their his
tories who gave me facts that have never
been IN print,
There were eleven of the sherman
children. Tho old Sherman mansion
still stands on the hill, u house or two
removed from the old Ewing homestead,
The head Of this large family was Judge
sherman, u judge Of the supreme court
OF Ohio IN It's earliest days, lie was n
Connecticut Yankee, and grand>
nephew OF old revolutionary Sherman.
lie came TO the new country in the
early settlement of Ohio, or rather
shortly after its admission to the union,
An intimacy was formed between him
and Senator Tom Ewing, which lasted
until Shcrman's sudden death, which
occurred ut Lebanon, Ohio in 1898, Of
cholera, lie left eleven children and
small property. The oldest, Charles
sherman. lives at Cleveland, was Judge
and disgraced himself by certain I'M.
judgly transactions few years since,
Jim sherman. the second son, was
n merchant loving whisky
better than business, He has
been dead some years, William I.
Sherman, the general, was the third son.
He was bright boy and Tom Ewing
took II fancy To him, aud, notwithstand
ing he had four boys and two girls of
his own, he took the boy Bill, as he was
called to his own henrthstone. Through
the Ewing influence young Sherman
was sent to West Point by Tom Rchey,
of Perry county, who was one of the
few representatives of the young state
in congress During his residence in
the Ewing family he formed the mt.
tachment which led to his happy mar.
riage to one of the two Ewing girls
Lampson sherman is an Iowa farmer.
John Sherman is II senator and about
rs mean prominent man rs breatheS
the air on the American Continent.
lloyt Sherman is II national banker ut
Dcs Moines Iowa. and when his brother
John concocts u financial measure, he
always has his eye on lloyts and his
own bank stock The girls were all
married, and became Mrs, Reese and
Mrs Willoch of Lancaster Mrs. Nc
McComb of Mansfield Mrs Barclay of
Washington and Mrs. G. w. Moulton
of Cincinnati. OF this remarkable fam
lily of children, ten out Of the eleven
of the children are living, and the
grand children will aggregate fifty.
OF the EHings, General Hugh, Judge
Philimon and General Tom all live
here; General Charley Ewing resides in
Washington. The men who are to fig
ure most prominently in the new adj
minstration and in congress are all con-
nocted by Ties of blood and marriage
When jim Blaine raised the warowhoop
in the senate, over Hayes peace.on-
earth-good will>to-man policy, and
reached for John Shermans scalp, he
was, in fact, going for one of his own
family. The daughters of old Neal
Gallespie, OF Brownsville, Pennsylvania,
were the mothers of Jim Blaine and the
Ewings. The Ct" in Mr., Blaine's
name came from his grandfather We
will have old Neal Gellespic's fighting
blood in the senate, leading the war
republicans, in the person of James &
Blaine, and in the house, leading the
war democrats in the person of General
Tom Ewing. Both are men of very
similar type and striking personal and
physical resemblance Both are agita-
tors, and are happiest when somebody
else is miserable, Blaine is the politi-
elan Of the two, land, thanks to his fathers
blood, Ewing is the statesman.