Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-10-27


will be obtainable until after the fu-
neral. Conservative estimates of his
wealth place it at $1,000 900, most OF
which is believed to consist Of WASH
ington real estate. Other investments
consist of securities, and 1t is stated
that the old family home at Mansfield,
o., remained in his possession, not
withstanding reports that he had dis
posed of it prior to his return to WASH
ington last month.
The funeral arrangements, so far as
they pertain to the services in Wash
ington, were completed late yesterday
afternoon. They will take place at
the late residence of Mr.. Sherman to-
morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev.
Mackay Smith, of st. Johns Episco-
pal church, being the officiating cler-
gyman. Immediately after the SER
vices the body will be taken to Mans
field, o., where the body will be buried
by the side of Mrs. Sherman.
AT 1 o'clock this afternoon funeral
services were conducted ut the late
residence of Mr.. Sherman, Rev. Mackay
Smith, of st. Johns Episcopal church,
being the officiating clergyman. I'm
mediately after the services the body
was escorted to the railway station
and taken to Mansfield, O., where it
will be buried by the side of Mrs. Sher-
man.
The list of honorary pail bearers in-
cludes Secretary Gage, Justice Har-
Ian, of the supreme court, Hon. John
A. Kasson, Hon. ]. G. Bancroft Davis.
Hon. ]. ID. Cameron, Senator Hawley
and M. M. Parker. The members OF
the cabinet now here attended the
CO. ~xwfa 81 he
Mckinley will go to Mansfield from
Canton to attend the services there.
OF the large family of brothers and
sisters originally comprising the Sher-
man family only two brothers survive
the secretary. They are Mai. Hoyt
Sherman and Lampson p. Sherman,
both OF Des Moines, Ia. The latter is
in feeble health, and it Is not likely
that he will be able to attend the
funeral at Mansfield.
John Sherman was born In Lancas-
ter, o., May 10, 1923, and in 1929 he.
with ten brothers and sisters. was
left to his own resources by the death
OF his father. He found a home with
a cousin at Mount Vernon, o., and
when u years old returned to Lam
caster to enter the academy. Two
years later he went to work as a rod
man for corps of engineers, and in
1889 entered the law office of his
brother Charles. In 1874 he was adj
mitted to the bar, and at once be-
came active in politics, quickly forg-
ing to the front. A delegate to the
Wing national convention in l848
when only 25 years old; a delegate
again TO the convention in 1852; presi-
dent of the first Republican state con-
Vention held in Ohio in 1855; elected a
representative in congress in 1854. and
reelected in 1856, 1853 and 1860: the
Republican and Free Soil candidate
Tor speaker in 1859, losing an election
by only three votes; entering the SEN
ate in 1861, and serving there contin-
uously until 1877; deVoting four years
as secretary of the treasury in Presi-
dent Hayes cabinet; returning to the
senate in 1881 and retaining his seat
there through three successive re-eIec-
lions; candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination in 1880, 1884
and 1888, receiving in the convention
OF 1888 249 votes; leader of his party
in the senate, and one of it's recognized
and authoritative spokesman on the
public platform, and finally secretary
OF state under President Mckinley
from March 5, 1897, to April 25, 1895
all these phases of a useful, honored.
laborious and eminently successful DO
litical career except the last can be
traced between the lines of the concise
and unassuming twelve line autobio-
graphical sketch which its subject
used to furnish to the Congressional
Directory.