The age-herald., 1900-10-23

oTiSlHdlly comprising the sherman tamllys enly two brothers survive the ex-Secretary. They are Maj. Hoyt sherman and Lampson F. Sherman, both of Des Moines, Ia.
 large number of telegrams of sympathy were received today, including the follow ing:
 Senator Foraker-The death of Senator sherman, although expected, occasioned universal regret Accept assurances of deepest sympathy. Governor George E. Nash of Ohio-Ohio mourns tn death of one of her greatest sons and symDathizes with you in the loss of d father. He battled for freedom and against slavery. In civil life he was a. most able stateman, in time of great peril to his country he was one of her most efficient supporters.
 Representative Grosvenor-The death of your distinguished father is great shock 10 me and recognize it as an irreparable loss 10 the country. In all the great ele- ments or constructive statesmanship John sherman has had no to excel him in the history of his country between 1851 and the hour of his sad death
 Story of His Illness
 MT Sherman had not been in robust health for considerably over a year. In March, 1899, while on pleasure trip to the French and Spanish West Indies, in com pany with a relative, MT. Frank Wiborg, he suffered a severe attack of pneumonia
 
 which they were travelling touched at San tiago, from which place reports came to the United States that the well-known statesman had succumbed to the disease. He rallied however, and the family ac- cepted the offer of the United States gov ernment to bring him back to the United States on the cruiser Chicago, then in the vicinity of Santiago, and he was safely landed at Fort Monroe and brought to his home in this city. Here he gained strength and was strong enough by summer time to visit his home in Ohio.
 His rema rkabe vitality brought him through relapse, which he suffered during the heated term, and by autumn he had again regained much of his strength and seemed to be in good spirits He spent last winter at his home in this city, enjoying fairly good health occasionally going out to social affairs and attending the theatre with the members of his family.
 The family left here early in the sum- ner for the old homestead at Mansfield, O. They were there but q short time when Mrs Sherman, whose health had been very frafl, died. This a severe blow to the secretary, from which he never fully re- covered. He remained at Mansfield until the middle of September, when he returned to Washington.
 He was very much broken in health and spirits but for time he was able to move about in the open air and to take short rides around the city. For the past three weeks UT HlOTtt however, He Hdd been cOnllneQ to his bed. his general debility being aggra- vated by an irritating bronchial cough that hastened the end.
 sketch of His Life
 John Sherman was born in Lancaster, O., May 10, 1923 He lived humby in those early days. What education he got was such as could be had in the country schools of that time. It was not of extensive sort. When he was II years old he se- cured emplONment in surveying DartV rodman. Afterward he got cerkship in -orre of the county offices. At the age of r he went to Mansfield, O., and began to read law in the office of his brother It took him four years to perfect himself in Blackstone and Kent and other worthies of the reading schedule of that date and pass examination that secured him admis- sion to the bar. This eventful period was reached on Shermans twenty-first birth day, and the celebration of that occasion made the anniversary more than usually pleasant and memorable.
 His career as a lawyer and statesman is familiar to the merest school boy of the land. Beginning with his election to the National House of Representatives in 1851, his record was one of successive honorS and promotions After having served as Representative he was made Senator in 1861, and such was the esteem in which he was held by his constituents that his re- elections to the office were as regular as the aspirations of his terms. Indeed from 1854 until he retired from President Me Kinley's cabinet in 1898 there was but one day when he was out of office That was March B. 1884, the day after he rendered his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury under the Hayes administration and the day before he took the oath of office as a reelected Senator.
 Not only was MT. Sherman continuously honored in connection with the legislative