The Irish standard., 1901-06-08
roseleaf on the sleeping camp Of lit
tie ragged yellow men. Thus ends the
days march.
No Irish About Sherman.

The following letter from e. B. Sher-
man to the Chicago Inter-Ocean de-
MES the Irish nationality attributed
to the late General w. Z. Sherman and
his distinguished brother, John Sher-
man, of Ohio:
A few months since the Oakland
Culture club was told by dist1n-
guished divine that General Sherman
was one Of the great warriors of Hibel-
nian lineage. DR.. Julia Holmes Smith.
in an address recently given before the
Woman's club OH "The Indebtedness
of America to Ireland" included Gen
eral Sherman among those for whom
America was indebted to Ireland.
Ireland has given to the world many
| illustrious sons. In literature, art, sci
cnce, oratory, craftsmanship, and war
the sons Of the "Green Isle' have been
conspicuous. Those who will recount
their exploits have abundant re
sources at their command. 1t is, there
fore, the more ineXcusable to claim for
the Celtic what belong to the Saxon
race. How it came to pass that Gen,
eral Sher,nan's ancestry has been
traced to Limerick or Munster, l am
at loss to conjecture. 1t is certain
that neither General Sherman, nor his
brother, Senator Sherman, is response
| bile for that imnrpssiOn
The FIRST paragraph of the "Memoirs
of William Tecumseh Sherman" writ,
ten, revised, and corrected by himself,
is as follows: "According to Cothren,
in his History of Ancient Woodbury.
Connecticut the Sherman family
came from ncdham, Essex county,
England. The first recorded name is
Of Edmond Sherman, with his three
sons, Edmond, Samuel and John, who
were at Boston before 1896; and, fur
Their, it is distinctly recorded that the
Hon. Samuel Sherman the Rev. John,
his brother, and Captain John, his first
cousin, arrived from Dcdham, Essex
county, England. in 1854, Samuel
afterward married Elizabeth Mitchell,
who had come Tin the same ship from
England. and finally settled at STRAIT
ford, Conn. The other two (Jollns)
located at Watertown, Mass.
"From Captain John Sherman arc
descended Roger Sherman, the signer
of the declaration of independence; the
Hon. William NJ. Evarts, the Messrs.
Hoar of Massachusetts, and many 9th
crs of national fame. Our own family
are descended from the Hon. Samuel
Sherman, and his son. the Rev. John
who was born in 1G50-51: then an
other John, born in 1887; then Judge
Daniel, born in 1921: then Taylor Sher,
man. our grandfather, who was born
in 1853. Taylor Sherman was a law.
yer and judge in Norwalk. Conn.
where he resided until his death, May
i, 1915. leaving widow. Betsey Stod
dard Sherman. and three children
Charles r. (oul. father, Daniel anC
Betsey.'
In John Slerman's recollections. tho
ancestry of the Sherman family is
more deliberately treated. He says
''rhe family name of Sherman. is nc
doubt, of Saxon origin. 1t is very
common along the Rhine. and i'll differ
ent parts of the German empire.
found it in Frankfort and Berlin. Tht
English Shernans lived chiefly in Els
sex and Norfolk counties. near tho
coast, and in London" Senator Shcr
man also traces his ancestry to Sam
uel Sherman in the same manner as
General Sherman had done.
Tt would seem to anyone not giftci
with Celtic imagination that the fore
going would be sufficient to deprive
General Sherman Of any claim to Hi
herman ancestry, and the same is
doubtless true of the Sherman famil,
in general
! may be parloncd for suggesting