Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-09
Cabinet Sketches.


William Maxwell Eyarts, who has ac-
cepted the portfolio of Secretary OF State,
was born in Boston, Feb. 6, 1916, and is a
son of jeremiah Eyarts, well known as a
writer, editor, teacher and lawyer. William
NJ. graduated from Yale in the class of 1857,
studied law at Harvard Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in New York city in
1911. lie showed marked ability as
lawyer. lie filed the position of Attorney
General with credit from July Is, 1865, to
the close of President Johnson's term,
March, 1869. lie was counsel for this
country in the settlement of the Alabama
claims before the Geneva Commission in
1872, and has been prominent as one OF the
Republican counsel before the Electoral
Commission.
JOHN SHERMAN.
named for Secretary of the Treasury, is the
eighth son of the late Charles R. Sherman,
of the Ohio Supreme Court, and brother of
the General-in- Chief of the Army. lie was
born at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1923. On
the day after he attained his majority he
was licensed to practice law, and for eleven
years he was partner with his elder
brother. From 1913 to 1852 he affiliated
with the whig party, and in the latter year
was chosen Presidential Elector. In 1871,
he was elected to Congress from the Ihir-
teenth District Of his native State. lie was
also elected to the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty
Sixth Congresses, and lacked one or two
votes of an election to the Speakers chair
for the latter. During the Thirty-Sixth Con-
gress be was chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee. Again he was returned
to Congress in 1860, and when Senator
Chase resigned in 1861, Mr.. Sherman was
elected to the United States Senate by his
State Legislature, and has served on the
Finance Committee, introducing and advo-
eating some important financial measures
He was chairman OF the Republican visitors
to Louisiana, last Fall. In finance he is a
hard-money man. Senator Sherman is nearly
81 years old, is tall and thin, and has brown
hair, gray eyes and large head.
CARL scHuRz,
Secretary of the Interior, was born March
., 1926, near Cologne, Prussia, and is now
IS years old lie was educated at the Gym
nasium of Cologne and the University Of
Bonn. He conducted liberal newspaper
when the revolution broke out in 1913,
made an attempt to promote an insurrec-
ton at Bonn, was unsuccessful and fed to
Switzerland. In 1852 he landed in Amer
lea, and soon after entered into active par
ticipation in the anti-slavery movement in
the Northwest. In 1850 he was an active
member of the Republican National Con-
vention, and delivered speeches in both
English and German in the campaign
which followed. He was appointed Minis
ter to Spain by President Lincoln, but re-
turned to this country in December, 1861
and entered the army. He participated in
the Battles of Bull Run, Chancellorville and
Gettysburg, and at the close of the war
retired with the rank of major-general.
In 1869 he was chosen United States Sen
ator in Missouri for the term ending in 1875.
lie took prominent part in the organizl-
ton of the Liberal party. presiding over the
convention in Cincinnati which nominated
Horace Greeley. During the recent cam
paign he labOrcd zealously for the election
of Mr.. Hayes.