The Washington bee., 1888-03-17
JOHN SHERMAN.
SHERMAN AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE
PRESIDENCY.

AO WILLIS PANAAA
nently urged in all parts of the
country for nomination as candi-
date for the Presidency of the
United States, it is natural that
some interest should be felt, espec.
tally by young men, in his ancestry
and early life. An accurate and
able writer has given the following
faithful sketch
ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE Of JOHN
SHERMAN.
eJoHN SHERMAN's paternal ances-
tors emigrated from Essex County
in Old England to Massachusetts
aud Connecticut in New England
at the time when those colonies
rose suddenly, like the dragons
teeth sown by Cadmus, into full.
grown strength-nOt, however,
armed like those fabulous warriors
weapons for their own destruction,
but with the virtues, the yigor, and
the intelligence of the AnglO-Saxon
race.
His grandfather, Taylor Sher-
man, of NOrwalk, Connecticut, was
an accomplished scholar and an
able jurist, who received seat on
the Bench and who was Commits
sioner of the Fire-land Settlements,
when in 1906 he went to Ohio to
arrange some disputed boundary
question. While engaged in this
service he became personally inter-
ested in tracts of land located
in Sherman Township, Huron Coun-
ty; but he returned to Connecticut,
where he died in 1916. He married
early in life Elizabeth StOddard,
lineal descendant of Anthony StOd-
dard, who emigrated from England
to Boston in 1859. She was sim
cere and honest woman, devoted to
her husband and her children, and
lived to a good old age, dying in
Ohio about 1948. Charles Robert
Sherman, their son (the father of
John Sherman), was born and
brought up at NOrwalk, Connect
cut, where he in due time commenc-
ed the study of law in the Office of
his father, who was then associated
with Judge Chapman. He was adj
mitted to the Bar in 1910, and on
the 10th OF May of that year he
married Mary Hoyt, also of Nor
walk, who had grown up with him
from childhood. She was a stead
fast, true-hearted woman, devoted
to her family and beloved by her
friends. A few months after his
marriage he went to Ohio In search
of a home, leaving his wife in Con-
necticut. He arrived at Lancaster
ON his way to Cincinnati, and was
so much pleased with the place and
people that he concluded to remain
there. Receiving a cordial wei
come, he was soon engrossed in the
practice of his profession. The fol-
lowing season his wife came to him
across the Alleghanies On horse
back, carrying her infant child (af-
terward Judge Charles T. Sherman)
on a pillow strapped before her sad
die. 1t was long and dreary road,
beset with hardships, but Mrs.
Sherman was fortunate in having
as companions a considerable party
of emigrants from her native region
who sought on the western slope of
the Alleghanies "a new home.
Cheered by the presence of his
wife and child, Charles Robert
Sherman rapidly rose to emlnence
as an eloquent advocate, and as a
judicious reliable counselor. His
professional character was spotless,
and while he would refuse clients
when his conscience would not per-
NIT him to screen their wrong.do-
ings, he was always ready to plead
the cause of the innocent and op-
pressed without reward. While de-
voted to his profession, he extend
ed his reading beyond his law
books, and was generally versed in
the literature of the day. He was a
prominent member of the Masonic
fraternity, and filed the highest
offices in the grand bodies of that
order in Ohio.
During the pioneer year of Ohio,
tradition records that it's lawyers
were obliged to travel over exten.
sive circuits in practicing their
profession. They were accustomed
to accompanying the courts from
county to county, and in this way
to traverse large extent of coun
try. Those ea:ly days alO com
memorated the warmest personal
friendships in the profession, as its
members were forced into the most
intimate companionship. They
rode together on horseback, their
saddle-bags stuffed with briefs, doc
uments, law-books, clothing, and
generally some creature delectation
| also. They were exposed in com