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months. ana thirty-two days. or this Pc
Tlod sn,sty.two wears, Were spent \. The
months In the house and five years and
nearly ne aa fwo Tcaths N ahe cabinet. rs
e eeHosut & o9d 1 siosa Il na gia y psGIita1 rl ans
the ship Elizabeth which arrived IN Bos-
ion In 1854, there landed Captain John,
IInA. IL Samuel sherman. aged Il, bro
Their of the clergyman. From these three
Immigrants are descended some of the
Try, Rey: dohn Sherman vas the pro
Eenitor Of the Shermans Of New York.
captain John Sherman was the ancestor
ph Roger Sherman, signers of the declara-
ton of Independence and one Of the
trainers of the constitution. Among Cap
TAR, sherman 4d~cscendants are William
tary Of State, and Senator George +.
Honr. of Massachusetts. now senator
from That state. and Chauncey NJ. Depew.
nel Sherman, the l6-year-oia brother OF
Rev. John Sherman, was Charles Robert
Snerinan. q Connecticut lawyer. who, In.
Of Ohio and took up a home. Elected. a
1ndge Of the state supreme court, he
uleu IN 1873 eaNing a widow, six sons and
tnrits. Charles n i. 81 Mnam sfse e ma a
Judge, and whose daughter is the wife of
sa,ssnator Z q Canlsron Of Pennsyl-
Sherman. general Of the armies Of the
United States. the sixth, and John Sher-
man the eighth.
~ May 10, 1873; and was 8 years old when
his father died. Possibly the stories of
the subsequent poverty Of the family are
eleyen children and only her homestead
and an income OF 1900 a year from her
nn%s6a1d's sstate must have had a hard
Sherman In his memoirs. Il can scarcely
write without emotion, although she died
more than forty years ago.
Taken III by a Relative.
The family was broken up, relations
and friends taking most of the children.
school until 1881. when his fathers cousin,
also John Sherman, q merchant at Mt;
Vernon v = 9 him to bis home and offered
stayed. there four years and at the age Of
4 gave up his studies and got employment
as = rodman on the improvements being
river between GAINESVILLE and MarIetta. A
change In the political complexion Of the
board OF public works lost him his. posi-
non!after two years and lie went home.
While there he relate that one night he
go, out With some boys. drank too much
and went home sick: His mother did not
he resolved that should be the last time
such a thing should happen him, and he
kept fp , ,h,a word si.n : ,,aa.a.,, : I.
his home, and began the study OF law.
he was admitted to the bar May 10, 1874.
his 9th birthday. and pract!ced his pro-
fesston from the very first with such sue
more nser ina than < slo, co. co. IN he money nsa ae sad prop.
srts sa In 1ss9 h he 1 msrrisa Marga a,s,a Stew,
before he had paid HIS first visit to.
a sssi 'o n1es'a nse'on n9's seI ssSs9h'sn 4 pd RI'9Isglaas
r!soTh MAJ in $50 and he fo nae aT fo1aa!ee co 5 : na in.
l ! II that campaign he took Gorwin in
er. II noticed" he said. that Mr.. Cor
win was very glum and silent. and to
the meeting. He turned upon me n with
some show of feeling said that all the
people WHO. had heard him would rene1n-
Der only his jokes and counseled me to
law"
Mr.. Sherman cast his first vote and
in 1874. He said: A this time L had but
two definite ideas in respect to the public
policy OF the United States. One was a
TO American Industries. as advocated BY
Henry Clay, and. second. a strong pre-
disposition against the democratic party,
liz wuc AASlS VI less GOulIllllieu 10 LnS
annexation OF Texas and the extension of
slavery" ,
His First once.
In 1s4S Mr.. Sherman was q delegate to
the whig convention at Philadelphia.
which nominated President Taylor: Col
onel Collier, chairman of the Ohio delega-
ton, told the convention that there was a
young delegate from Ohio who could new
sr hope to get an office unless the con.
yention gave him one, and nominated
John Sherman for one of the secretaries.
Mr.. Deflees said there was a young dele
gate from ng indiaHa who was In The same
another secretary, They were both elect
Cd and took the PLATFORM. The passage of
s srht hhhn an, assn t5a bhi preeip,ated The
slavery forces. In Ohio, us elsewhere,
d len whiEs and free sellers Joined
Issue made BY this bill. John Sherman
was nomlnaed for congress, and defeated
William 2; Lindsey, the sitting demo-
paign.. had written a letter in which he
spelled corn "korne." Mr.. Sherman car
ried his " county of Rtchland by 800.
the democratic party, and was elected by
nearly. 5000 majority. In 1855 he presided
over the first republican state convention
of Ohio. William B. Allison. now senator
Chase was nominated for governor.
The thirly-fourth congress met In De-
legislator. The house was composed Of
g. republicans s2 democrats and As third
or know .nothings. This fight for the
speakership lasted until February 2, 1856,
when n 2 Banks, of Massachusetts, was
maj nude his first speech on January 3,
1856. and took go active a part thereafter
that In March, when a committee was an
Kansas, he was made q member He was
reelected In 1855 and took part In all the
debates over the Lecompton and English
Dfils for the admission of Kansas. His
first financial speech was mad In 1858.
congress me. on December 5. 1859. IT had
Americans. Mr.. Sherman and Galusha
A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, were the re-
publican M aspirants for the speakership,
the votes on the first ballot should
withdraw. Grow had % and Sherman Sc,
a ~ Grow t%ar rev no party having a
contest. The southern element was es-
pecialiy bitter and threatening; On one
majority. The John Brown affair had oc.
Cured but a few months previously. Hin
ton Rowan Helpers book. '.The Impend-
sherman was charged by the southern
members with having written a letter in
dorsing H.: Az last, he Withdrew, expect
William Pennington. Of New Jersey.
They did and February 4 Mr.. Pennington
was elected.
Supports Tariff Legislation.
He was a member of the ways and
means committee In that congress-, and
his first participation In the tariff debate
In the discussion OF the famous Mer-
rill tariff bill, which passed the house
He was reelected in 1850 and In that
campaign stumped Ohio. Pennsylvania,
Indiana, New Jersey and Delaware: Linz
coin was elected. He appointed Salmon
r.. Chase secretary OF the treasury, and
Chase resigned the senatorship from Ohio
or. March !. Mr.. Sherman was certain Q.
being elected speaker of the congress
whichtwas to meet In special session on
July q. 1861, TO frame measures for the
on OF the war, then on the
point of bursting forth in all its fury, bur
the Ohio republicans sent him to the sem
me that consumers are getting to like
bituminous coal. and that they think
they will keep on useing 1t"
1t is such reminders as these that
make the operators Just as anxious to
settle the strike as the miners. Many
OF the miners out on strike argue In
favor of accepting the latest offer of
the companies n settling the powder
question later.
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