The Forrest City times., 1900-10-26
THE LATE JOHN SHERMAN.
Sketch of the Life nnd Public serv- lees of John sherman, the
 Deceased sfatesman.


 John sherman is compiled from the public records:
 John Sherman was born at Lancaster, O. May 10. 1923. His paternal ancestors emigrated from the County of Essex, England, to Massachusetts and Connecti- cut. His grandfather, Taylor sherman. ot Norwalk, Conn, was an accomplished scholar and able jurist. He went to Ohio, in 1895. to arrange some disputed boun- ty. He married Elizabeth Stoddard. a linenl descendant of Anthony Stoddard, who smigrated from England to Boston father, was a native of Norwalk. Conn.,, where he was brought up and admitted to the bar. lie married Mary Hoyt and soon after settled at Lancaster, O., where he practiced law and was elevated uy the legislature to the bench of the supreme court. He died suddenly at Lebanon, O., June 24, 1929. At this time John was six years CT age. Mrs. sherman, having eleven children and but small means, her friends. In 1851, a cousin of her husband, john sherman, took his namesake to io2r years Young shermans ne progress psnsned ai school was rapid At 12 years of age he returned to Lancaster and attended Homer's academy.
 His Early Life.
 He afterwards accepted an offer from Col. Curtis to become junior rodman on the 'Muskingum improvement" with a corps of engineers engaged in construct
 
 was assigned to work at Lowell, O. In 1888 he was placed temporarily in charge of the work at Beverly. where he re- the improvement. In 1888 the Whig party navng 9s ss fa5e ta he lost hs with his brother Charles. After the hrst year he was entirely self-supporting. On May II, 1S44, he was admitted to the bar at Springfield, O., and entered into part nership with his brother. In 1S46-47 he vis- tied Washington and remained a month, men of the day, especially with Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois. In 1S4S he was sent as a delegate to the national wh,g a secretary of that body. MT. sherman supported the nomination of Zachary Taylor for president of the United States and canvassed a portion of Ohio for him.
 FOun-ation of His Fortune.
 On August 30, 1S4S he married Cecelia Stewart, only daughter of Judge Stewart, of Mansfield He was then prosperous man, having added to his income from law practice the profits incident to the manufacture of flooring, doors, etc, by an establishment which he had set in the Whig national convention at Balti- more, and supported it's nominee for pres ident, Gen; Winfield Scott. In 1s5S-54 he opened law office in Cleveland. When the congressional "'anti-Nebraska conven- tion, made up of members of the demo- cratic, whig and free soil parties, was held great difficulties existed in forming a fusion of the opposing elements. The choice for candidate finally fell upon MT. against 5.794 for his democratic op- ponent. He was president of the first Ohio Republican state convention, in 1855, which nominated Salmon P. Chase for governor. He also participated in the or- ganization of the National republican par ty. after which he took his seat in the | house of representatives in the Thirty | fourth congress, six years before the civil war. The territory of Kansas had be- come a battle ground between the slavery
 and anti-slavery elements and on March | 19, 1856. the house voted to have the I speaker appoint committee of three to | proceed to Kansas and collect evidence in regard to the troubles there. The ap- l pointment of MT. sherman as a member | of this committee was turning point in | his political career. When the committee | was at Leavenworth band of despera- | does threatened to burn the town, and the | Leavenworth probably saved the lives of | the committeeman. The report of the | committee submitted to congress became | the basis of the campaign of 1856 In that | campaign MT. sherman supported John c. | Fremont
 His Services in Congress. MT. Sherman was invariably a firm ad- | vocate of economy in public expenditures | He always closely scrutiniZed bills appro- | priating money, and by his prominence in | all business of the house. came to be rec | ogniZed as one of its foremost men. He | was appointed chairman of the committee | on ways and means of the Thirty-sxth congress. He introduced a resolution,
 subject of a railroad to the Pacific coast | be referred to committee of fifteen
 members. with leave to report by bill or | otherwise. He secured the passage of the | bill authorizing the issue of what have | since been known as the United States treasury notes of 1860. In February. 1861, | he first saw Abraham Lincoln, then pres | ident elect, at Washington, and from that time until Lincoln's death the friendship l between the two men was unbroken. | When Salmon P. Chase resigned the Unit cd States senatorship from Ohio, in | March, 1861. to become secretary of the | treasury, MT. sherman was elected his successor.
 Services in the Civil War. | When the civil war broke out he joined | some of the Ohio troops and rendered his consistent with his duties as senator. He | served as the generals aid-de-camp with out pay until congress met in July. 1861. l He recruited, largely at his own expense, | two regiments of infantry, a squadron of | cavalry and a battery of artillery. In the summer of 1862 he took charge of the na- | tioEal banking bill During the war he | often visited the soldiers on the field. After the war, when he had been re-elect- | ed to the senate, he became chairman of | the senate committee on finance. He took | the most prominent part in all the finan- l cial bills which became laws.
 In President Hayes Cabinet. | In December. 1874, he initiated, at Wash | ington the movement for the resumption I
 the United States senate for the third l time. President Hayes, who was inau-
 gurated March l. 1877. appointed MT | Sherman secretary of the treasury, and | in six months he had so raised the credit
 of the country at home and abroad that | he was enabled to sell four per cent.
 bonds at par. In later years he was re- | sponsible for many important financial measures. In 1880 he was a candidate for | the presidential nomination before the | National republican convention at Chi | cago, his name being presented to the | convention by James A. Garfield. who | ultimately received the nomination. In | 1887 he was reelected to the senate. At II the national convention of 1888 he received
 229 votes for the presidential nomination | on the first ballot, and 249 on the second | In 1892, after an exciting contest MT. | Sherman was again chosen senator. After | tho election of President Mckinley he re-
 signed from the senate and was appoint | ed secretary of state. He was succeeded l in the senate by NJ. A. Hanna. At the | commencement of hostilities with Spain | his health began to fail and the adminis- l tration was compelled to depend to a | great extent upon Judge William k Day | then assistant secretary of state. MT. | sherman finally resigned from office and | retired into private life. He was sue l ceeded in the cabinet by Judge Day.
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