Arizona silver belt., 1896-05-21
VANISHED TOWNS.
Senator Sherrnan's Book Recalls
 Singular Circumstances.
An old English Village That Is No Longer Remembered by the People of Loudon--How 1t Was
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 A century hence the traveller from afar looking for this or that town in the oil region of Pennsylvania or in the west. in which an ancestor on one side or the other was born, will have a job of it. He may have read glowing de- scriptions of it's prosperity and progrcss when the oil business was boomirg or when the real estate agent proclaimed it us good us fortune to secure some corner lots. A few years ago town in southern Kansas, founded by English men, was known on both sides of the sea. To-day nothing remains of it save the beautiful church. When last heard from farmer had fenced in the public square as pasture and pen for bis hogs. X century hence the traveller will hunt Harper county long before he finds the town of Runnymede.
 In the first volume of his memoirs Senator Sherman gives an account of his ancestors, and particularly of Ed mond Sherman, a cloth manufacturer and grim Puritan of considerable repu- tation, who once lived in Dedham, Es- sex county, England, where he was born in 1885, aud who died in Dcdham, Nor folk county, Mass. He came to this country in i634. The senator adds: "When in London in the summer of 1889 concluded to make a visit to the graves of my ancestors. l examined Blacks Universal atlas to locate Ded- ham, but it was not to be found. I made inquiries, but could discover no one who knew anything about Dedham, and concluded that there was no such place, although had often read of it. was compelled, therefore, to give up my visit" But Senator Uoar, through lis mother, descendant of Roger Shcr- man, more fortunate, or more persist ent," found the place, ''and verified the accounts we had of our common ances- tor.n
 Dedham is two or three miles from Manningtree, a more modern town on the line of the railroad, which has sub stantially obscured the ancient and de- cayed village of Dedham." Manning tree, as shown by the atlas. is near the mouth of the River Stour, and the bor- der of Essex and Suffolk. The fine town If Dedham, near Boston. is named after
 ,he English village. It is the capital of Norfolk county. and, as one may sec in the Postal Guide, there is Dedham ID Hancock county, Me-; in Douglas county, Wis, and Dedham is the capital of Carroll county, h. The name of nil these places can be traced back through New Englanders to that ancient and de cayed village of Essex, and yet one ci the foremost American statesmen whose grandfather and grandmothcI | were Connecticut Yankees, could ro' discover from any book or person in | London that such place as the English 1 Dedham existed. It was Senator Hoar Massachusetts man. who either | through fortune or his persis tency in searching found il - ant secured a lot of photographs ol the principal points in it so tha' if it should be lost again it nigh be identified. IL is curious comment
 on the Londoners that they did mol
 know of the existence of village whip
 cuts 20 importanta . figure in the bistory of English-speaking men until it wa
 pointed out to them by an inqulsitiy' old Yankee.-Pittsburgh Times,