Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-26
NEWS IN BRIEF
JOHN SHERMAN DEAD.
Statesman and Financier Passed Away
in Washington Monday.

HssHad Been in Public Life 40 Years
AZ Congressman, Senator and Cabinet
Omoer---He Brought About the Re-
sumption or Specie Pay ment.
Hon. John Sherman, who for 40 years
occupied prominent place in the legisla-
tive and administrative branches of public
affairs died at Gas o'clock Monday
morning of brain exhaustion at his home in
Washington. Death came peacefully after
SO hours of complete inconsistencies. The
family were at his bedside all of the time.
Brief services we're held here Tuesday and
the body taken to Mansfield, Ohio, the bodA
living in state at the Episcopal church there.
Tie funeral services we're held there on
Thursday.
The news of Mr.. Sherman's death was
carried to the White House by his secreta-
ry. The flags on the public buildings we're
ordered at half mast Immediately.
The President, as a mark of special hon
or to the deceased, prepared an expression
of the nations grief in the shape OF proc
lamation descriptive of the personal quail
ties and civtic abilities of Mr.. Sherman. The
message will be transmitted to all theAmer-
lean ambassadors, ministers, etc, abroad no
tifying them of his demise. The depart
ments were closed to business during the
funeral All the public men unite in Mr.
Sherman's high praise and in their deep re-
grets at his taking away. The President
and his wife called at the Sherman resi-
dence Monday morning to offer their con.
dolences to the family. They also attended
the funeral services at Mansfield.
John Sherman, the financier, formerly
secretary of the treasury and United
at m.
caster, O., May 10, 1928. He was descend
ed from Samuel Sherman, a colonist oil
1884, and began life as a rodman in the
Muskingum river improvements. Having
studied law with brother in Mansfield
O., he was admitted to the bar the day he
became of age and since then has lived al
Mansfield. Mr.. Sherman made it a rule
from an early day to save $500 a year
from his income and this practice was the
basis of his large wealth. After six years
in the law he started sash and blind fac
tory which paid him about $4,000 a year
and by purchases of suburban lands anC
later real estate operations in Washington
and careful investments in corporations h'
became a rich man.
Senator Sherman's political career lie Sc
we'll known that it is only necessary to say
with regard to it that having in 1858 open
ed law office in Cleveland, he gave it az
in 1854 upon his election to Congress, anc
from that time he was connected continu
ously with the Federal government.
Until March 4, 1861, he was a member
of the lower house and then became United
States senator, in which Office he remained
with the exception of the period of Hayes
administration when he was secretary o.
the treasury. The resumption of speci'
payments was peculiarly the product o
his personal efforts. He returned from thu
treasury to the Senate and there remained
until he was made secretary of state by
President Mckinley. This position he wa
forced to abandon by reason of his feebl
condition.
The Sherman silver act and the Sherman
antitrust law, neither of which added Il
his fame, are the only pieces of Legislation
which were given his name on the popula
tongue, but his impress was upon all tn
important financial legislation, and upol
most of the important legislation of ever,
other kind enacted in his time, while b
will stand out always from the list of sec
retaries of the treasury, even though h
will have no reputation as secretary o
state.
Sherman had seen II administration
and % Congresses march beside him acros
the stage.
He was upon two or three occasions
leading Republican candidate for nomina
ton to the presidency, but like Clay an
Webster he never realized his life's amb
ton.