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HIS CAREER.
Biographical Sketch of the Dis
tinguished General.


Biographical Sketch of the Dis
tinguished General.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was
born in Lancaster, o., Feb. s, 1920. His
branch of the family is traced to Samuel
Sherman, Of Essex, England, who came
to this country in 1854 with his brother.
Rev. John Sherman, and his cousin,
Capt. John Sherman. Roger Sherman.
signer of the Declaration of Independ-
enca, traced his lineage to the captain
and Gen. Sherman to that of Rev. John,
whose family settled in Woodbury. and
NorWalk, Conn.,. whence some of them re-
moved to Lancaster, Fairfield county, O.,
III 1910. The father of Gen. Sherman
was stricken down with cholera in 1929
while a Judge of the supreme court of
Ohio, leaving family of eleven chill
dren to be cared for by wife in strait
ened circumstances. Gen. Sherman's
mother, who was married in 1910, was
Mary Hoyt. The renowned warrior
was the sixth child, and Senator John
Sherman the eighth. William I. was
adopted by Thomas Ewing, one of the
foremost men of his day. and was given
a good education. In July. 1886. Will
lam Il. was sent as cadet to West
Point, where he was graduated in 1910
sixth in a class of forty-two members.
Among his classmates was George III.
stoned as a second lieutenant in the
Third artillery in July, 1910, and sent to
Florida, where trouble yet existed from
the Seminole war. In 1S41 he was pro-
NOTED to first lieutenant. In 1912 he
was at Fort Morgan, Mobile Point. Ala,
and later at Fort Moultrie, Charleston
harbor. When
The Mexican War
began in 1865 he was sent with troops
around Cape Horn to California, where
he acted as adjutant general to Gen.
Stephen w. Kearney, Col. Mason and
Gen. Persifer f. Smith. Returning in
1850. on May l he married Miss Ellen
B. Ewing. daughter of his foster father,
Thomas Ewing. who was then secretary
of the interior. The wedding took
place in Washington. and Daniel Web
ster, Henry Clay and Gen. Taylor were
among the guests. On Sept. 2, 1850,
he was appointed a captain in
the commiSsary department and
sent to st. Louis and New Orleans.
He had already received brevetof
captain for service in California to date
from May 80, 1S4S. Seeing little pros
pect for promotion in the army in times
of peace, he resigned his commission
Sept. 6. 1858. and the same year entered
civil life as manager of the branch bank
of Lucas, Turner & Co., San Francisco,
Cal. That institution was wound up in
1857. Capt. Sherman then settled in
LeaVenWorth, Kan. as a lawyer,
forming partnership with his
brother-in-law, Thomas Ewing Jr.
In 1859 he accepted the superin-
tendency of the state military academy
of Louisiana offered him by the govern
OF of that state. He resigned this posi-
ton in 1861, Oh account of the secession
of the state. He returned to ST. Louis,
where he was for short time president
Of the Fifth Street railroad. On May Is.
1861, he was commissioned colonel of
the Thirteenth infantry, and was put in
command of brigade in Tyler's divis-
ion of the army that marched to
Bull Run.
His brigade comprised the Thirteenth,
SiXty-ninth and Seventy-ninth New
York and the Second Wisconsin regi-
ments. Sherman's brigade was holly