Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-23

of 1888 was placed temporarily in
charge of the work at Beverly, o.,
where he remained during the rest of
his service with the engineers
In 1888, the Wing party having lost
the State election, he lost his place.
and at once went to Mansfield, o.,
where he
Began to Study Law
with his brother Charles. Here he
regularly prepared the pleadings and
did a good share of the Office work.
After the first year he was entirely
self-supporting May IL, 1874, he was
admitted to the bar at Springfield, O.,
and forthwith entered into partnership
with his. brother at Mansfield. After
this he was employed in the practice
Of law until 1854 Shortly after his
admission to the bar his mother and
two sisters removed from Lancaster to
Mansfield and kept house for him.
In 184647 Mr. Sherman went to
Washington. where he remained a
month and became acquainted with
most of the great men of the day,
among them being Stephen A. Dou-
glass, of Illinois. In the spring of 1S4S
he was sent to the national Wing con-
vention at Philadelphia as a delegate
and was made secretary of that body.
Mr.. Sherman heartily supported the
nomination of Zachary Taylor for the
Presidency and canvassed a portion of
Ohio for him.
August 80, 184S
Mr.. Sherman Married
Cecilia, only daughter of Judge Stew
art, of Mansfield. In 1852 he was del
egate to the Wing national convention
at Baltimore, Nd, and supported its
nominee for President, Gen. Winfield
Scott. In 1854 he opened a law office
at Cleveland, o. When the Congress
sional anti-Nebraska convention came
together great difficulty arose concern
ing fusion, the choice for Congress
ional candidate fell upon Sherman and
he was elected. He was chairman of
the first Ohio Republican State con-
vention which nominated Salmon P.
Chase for Governor and participated
also as delegate in the formation of
the Republican party at Philadelphia,
after which he took his seat in the ma
tional Congress six years before the
breaking out of the Civil War. There
was a fierce and prolonged struggle
attendant upon the election of speak
er OF this House, and MIR Sherman fin
ally declared his intention to vote for
Gen. n. p. Banks, because of his atti-
tude toward slavery, Mr. Banks having
said that the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise would not give any advan-
tage to the slave traffic if he could
avoid it.
Mr.. Sherman was appointed men,
Der of the Kansas investigating COM
mittee with REGARD to the troubles there
and this appointment marked the turn
ing point in his political career. Mr..
Sherman, at the request of his col
leagues, collected the testimony and
formulated the report. When present.
ed to Congress it caused deep feeling
and was the issue in the Presidential
campaign of 1856 In that campaign
Mr.. Sherman supported John c.. FIRE.
mont for the Presidency.
Bills appropriating public money
were
Always COseIy Scrutinized
by Mr.. Sherman, and by his close at
tention to the business of the House
he became recognized toward the close
of his second term as one OF the fore
most men in the body. In February
1861, he first saw Abraham Lincoln, and
the friendship between the two men
formed at that time lasted until the
death of the latter When the Civil
War broke out Mr. Sherman rendered
his services and served as an aide-de-
camp without pay until the meeting of
the first war Congress. He then had
recruited at his own expense two COM
panfes of infantry, a squadron of cav
airy and battery Of artillery.
When Salmon P. Chase resigned his
seat as United States Senator from Ohio
in 1861 to accept a portfolio in Lincoln's
Cabinet, Senator Sherman was elected
Senator, and retained the seat during
the war, although he strenuously desired
to enlist and go to the front. He was
a member of the Senate committee on
finance during the war, and had charge
of those great measures which upheld
the credit of the United States at home
and abroad during that trying period
In the summer of 1862 he took sharge of
the national banking bill at the request
of the Secretary of the Treasury, and
made the only speech in the Senate in
its favor, although the bill was before
that body for ten days. After the war;
when he had been reelected Senator,
he was again chairman of the Senate
comittee on finance, and his many brill
liant financial successes as a member Of
that committee or it's chairman for
many years, are well remembered.
When The Credit Mobilier investigation
was being made, Mr.. Sherman was at
tackled by many people, who said he
Had Made Much Money
during the war and must have made
it improperly. He answered these at
tacks win proof to the contrary and ST.
fenced his accusers.
n 1874 he initiated at Washington
the movement for the resumption OF
specie payments, and was chosen to
the United States Senate for the third
time. President Hayes was inaugurated
Marcn 4, 1877, and at once made Sher-
man Secretary of the Treasury. The
latter took measures for the sale OF
bonds, and in other ways provided for
the resumption OF specie payments.
against the croaking OF fnanciers all
over the country. and his success stamp
ed him as one OF the greatest financiers
in the world. In 1877 he was again
elected United States Senator. In 1880
Mr. Sherman was candidate for the