Connecticut western news., 1886-11-10
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1Ss
ALL OF ONE FAMILY.
ThreePrOminent Men Descended from, Roger Sherman The Connecticut Ancestry of Senators sherman.
 Eymrts and HOur.

Ancestry of Senators Sherman.
 Evmrts and HOar.
 Away up in the bleak hills of Litch- field county, writes a New Haven cor respondent of the Philadelphia Times, there was young cobbler, century and half ago, who made stout boots with home-tanned leather for the hardy men who opened up that country. In this year of our Lord there are in the senate of the United States three men, each of whom hopes to be the next nominee of the republican party for President of the United States What connection is there between these two facts-an obscure Connecticut colony cobbler and three United States senators who were born a hundred years later? There is the most highly interesting con- nection, for the young cobbler was Ro- ger Sherman and the three senators are William NJ. Evarts, George Frisbie Hoar and John Sherman, and they are all re- lated, either in the line of direct descent or collaterally with the blood of the Ro ger Sherman family. So that 1t has hap pened that the talents of the fine old rebel Roger are justified in his blood, and we have the highly interesting spec tacle of three cousins of greater or less degree of kin, at this time, with their eyes and those of their friends for them fixed upon what Americans believe the most exalted seat of power on earth.
 While Roger Sherman begged away on his cobbler's bench he set dreary law book or two before him and proved that o man could serve two masters, for he mastered law while he was making boots. When the Connecticut colonists were, in 176O or whereabouts, kicking against the taxation by Great Britain, and were told by the timid merchants that they were kicking against the bricks, Roger Sherman, then about 40 years old, said: "No." and he backed up his position with such masterly ar guments and appeals as not only brought him to the front in the colony, but car ried his fame throughout the 13 colo nies. So when the continental congress was created Roger Sherman of Connect icut became one of the leading members of it, serving continuously from 1774 to 1788. Four years after the constitution was adopted Roger Sherman died. The cobbler had become the statesman. He was one of those very remarkable men who, with but little learning, with but scant knowledge of history, shut of from Europe by an unfrequented sea, yet seemed intuitively and almost SUI pernaturally to have grasped and com prehended not only the true principles of popular government, but to have been able to set down the rules by which the principles should be carried out.
 What would the rugged old statesman have thought had he contemplated that at the beginning of the second century Unsuccessful government under his con stitution two of his descendants and one of his relatives should be placed in line for the presidency? Poets are born, no made; and if we look through the vari ous branches of the Sherman family Vt shall find that the aphorism might bs changed to "here lawyers arc born"
 In the generation preceding that O Evarts, Hoar, and John Sherman ther. was one eminent lawyer of the Sherman blood. That was Gov Roger Sherman Baldwin of New Haven. He is said tt have resembled the cobbler-lawyer phy sically as greatly as he did mentally He was leader at the bar, and possess ed that hankering for political life whicl is characteristic of the Shermans. H, was representative In congress, gover nor of Connecticut and senator in con grass in Taylor's administration. H. was blunt, and aggressive, and tactless like Roger. and he was so ineorruptibl honorable that people said he leaue, backward. His son, Simeon E. Bald win. is one of the few really eminen lawyers now at the Connecticut bar wit liking for politics, but utterly withou talent for 1t. We cannot fail to detee the old Roger Sherman strain in Sim cons leadership of the Connection mugwumps year ago. Here was tn old cobbler's tactless bumptiousnes with this difference: that Roger Shel man brought that quality to bear i sympathy with the majority, while Sim con let 1t use him against 1t. That em inently legal family, the Seymours, 0 Litchfsld, one of whom is ROW mem Der of congress from the fourth distric of this state was, through intermarriages related to the Roger Sherman blood. O this family Horatio Seymour was rela tive and the late Chief Justice Seymou of this state was Q member, while tn late United States Judge Woodruff wa connected with 1t by marriage.
 The Ohio Shermans are collateral connected with the Roger Sherman fam ily, as they claim, though not of his di reot blood. They are of the Connect nnt Shermans. Of the two famou hrokhers Tecumseh, who IS the only on r Inc family who has won renown as
 ln1aier is the most like Roger Sherma,
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