The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-30
SHERMAN'S
BIOGRAPHY.
Preparations For 1t Are Made
In His Will.
TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
A Competent Person Shall he Appointed
to Write the Work story
or n Possible
Co test.
Special To News-Democrat.

Special To wsDemocrat.
Mansfield, October 29.-Congressman
Kerr, executor of the Sherman estate,
after making copies of the Sherman
will returned II to probate Monday
The hearing of the application to pro-
bate will be held Nov. Is and in the
meantime n commission will be issued by
Judge Br.nkerhoff to take the testimony
of witnesses to the will and codicil.
The win will be sent with the commits
sion and when returned VIII be pro-
bated
In regard to the sum of $4,000 set
aside for a biography, MIR. Shermnn
says:
1.-Two years after my death my books
and papers so far as needed shall be
paced in the possession of some COM
petent person and he shall prepare and
publish an impartial biography of me
with selections of my speeches and wri.-
| ings, and | appropriate for that purpose
the sum of $4,000 to be pad by my ex-
ccuturs as needed. This provision Is
| made not to secure eu,ogy, for clain
that in my duty to the public l have
been honest, faithful and true"
The executors are charged with thc
| duty of erecting suitable monument
over the grave of the deceased. The
special beques.s amount to about $500,
| 900, leaving S2.2s0,0OO to be distribute
l'lmong the principal heirs.
| The provision of the will does MOI
| name any person or persons who will
have, in charge the work of his bio.
| yraphy, but It is believed that the as
| 2lgnment win be given to Henry c.
| Hedges, Mr.. Shermans old friend and
1 political adviser.
| The public alton in the Sunday papers
ia dispatch from Washington, referr-
| .ug 20 the possibilities of u, contest in tho
| vi,l, created much talk here in Mans
deiG, but IS generally d,seredited. The
! Washington story is that, despite tit
/ .9foSisions cutting off any of. the lega
| eesMibo contest the will itswill be con.
ttested on the ground that the form 81
ISetIetary was not competent mentally
i ltFthe time he made his VII to do SO
| rhe fact that Mrs Nelson A. Miles, wiz
3 a niece of John Sherman and was
| l'ways considered his favorite, and VIII,
fved with him until her marriage, was
| 1ot remembered N the will except to tn,
I sXtent OF 10000 While his, adopted
taaghter Mrs. McCallum, benefits by
| It to the extent Of over half a million
| dol;ars, Is considered by those who CLAIM
TO know good reason for the allegef
! contest, according to the. Washington
tory. a prominent Ohioan, who is wei
| lGqua 'nted with the family is quoted II
he Washington dispatch as saying tha
| ne looked FOR contest over the will
/. and although he knew nothing positiv,
/ in regard to the matter he had hearc
| enough since the funeral to convinc,
| lim that an attempt would be mad.
% break the viii. Although the viii
9equeatks the former secretary's res!
| ince on X street, Washington, to Mrs
McCallum, the secretary couple o
weeks before his death transferred thu
| property to her, AMI This is looked upoi
by some to indicate that there wa'
i fear of a contest over the will and tia
4 the secretary was induced to transce
the property iurins his life . his~ al
opted daughter 'e' 1'.t