Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-11-09
AS STATESMAN AND POLITICIAN.
Twice in the Cabinet and Three Times
Mentioned for President.

John Sherman was born in Lancaster,
Ohio, May 10, 1923. When he was 6
years old his father died. leaving a widow
and eleven children. with only the home
stead and IN income of $500 n year for
support. The family was broken up, and
most of the children went to live with
relatives and friends. John remained
18th his mother. He went to school for
a year or two, and in 1881 his fathers
cousin, John Sherman, n merchant of
Mount Vernon, took him to his home and
offered to prepare the boy for Kenyon
= College. He stayed there for four years,
but at the end of that time gave up his
School and began work as a rodman in
the improvements then being made by
the State in the Muskingum river.
In lS4O he went to Mansfield, where he
made his home the remainder Of his life,
and began the study of law. He was
admitted to the bar Oh his twenty-first
birthday, and soon made Il success. In
lS4S he married Margaret Stewart. Mr..
Sherman cast his first vote md made his
first speech for Clay in 1914.
In lS4S he was a delegate to the Wing
convention in Philadelphia which nomi-
mated President Taylor. Sherman was
nominated and elected one of the secre-
tarics. and took the stump. The fight
over slavery had just been made an issue,
and 6N this Sherman was nominated and
-'electeh to Congress. In 1860 he pre-
sided over the first Republican coaven-
ton ever held in the State of Ohio.
MI. Sherman made his first speech in
Congress in 1856, and from that time ON
took a prominent part in the affairs of the
aHoyfcn His Evct Ero~1:cJ o...i -
made in 1858. In 1858 he was reelected.
n again i'll 1860, and had every pros
pect of being elected Speaker, but resign-
ed to go to the Senate in 1861 in place
of Salmon 2. Chase, who resigned to fill
a place i'll Lincoln's cabinet. When the
war came on Mr.. Sherman went to Ohio
to encourage enlistments, and for a time
served as a volunteer without pay on the
staff of Gen. Patterson.
The congressional problems of the next
four years We're banking and currency
questions, and in the debates on these
Mr.. Sherman took a prominent part. Dur
ing the stormy period of the reconstruc-
ton he acted as peacemaker between
President johnson and the Senate, but
after the veto Of the civil rights bill and
other reconstruction measures he acted
heartily with the majority of his party.
Senator Sherman's' greatest financial
achievements were in connection with
theifesumption Of specie payments in
1873. After a long fight he secured the
passage Of a bill providing for the re-
sumption Of specie payments on Jan. 1.
1870. As Secretary of the Treasury In
the cabinet Of President Hayes, Mr..
Sherman was able to see the bill become
a fact.
Mr.. Sherman returned to the Senate at
the end of his service as Secretary Of
the Treasury, and remained an active
member Of that body until he was called
TO fill the position Of Secretary Of State.
the most important position in President
McKinley's cabinet. This he resigned
in April. 1898, on account Of age and iii
health, and since that time had taken lit.
tie part in public affairs.
Secretary Sherman's death occurred in
the handsome home on X street, which
he had erected eight years & The sec.
rotary was a large holder of real estate
IN Washington, having invested exten-
sively in that line from time to time.
Conservative. estimates Of his wealth
place 1t at q round million dollars. most
OF which is believed to consist OF Wash
ington real estate. Other investments
consist OF securities and 1t 10 stated that
the old family home at Mansfield, Ohio.
remained In his possession, notwfth.
standing reports that he had disposed of
= pstors - his. return to Washingtoa