The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-12-14
Cen. SHERWOOD
Old School Gentleman
and Former Canton
Editor Goes to
Congress.


A clean cut, honorable gentleman
of the old school of sterling honesty
and right principles, General Isaac
r. Sherwood, soldier. statesman ano
editor. will go to congress from the
Ninth district of Ohio with the love
and admiration of host of people,
regardless of class or distinction.
His fight for congress was that Of
q sturdy soldier standing almost alone
and fearless at his gun until his bear
ing and valor invoked the admira'
tion of even the enemy Deserted by
the political machinery that had
placed his name in nomination, the
general and his friends conducted one
of the most unique campaigns ever
witnessed In Toledo, and with an eX-
penditure of much less than 5000 all
told
A graduate of the Ohio Law scnool
of Cleveland, Gen Sherwood aband-
oned for journalism in 1858 He
was born in Stanford, N. Y, August
13. 1885, and was married to Kath-
crime Margaret Brownlee in 1859. In
that same year Isaac R. Sherwood es-
tablished his first newspaper at Bry-
an, O., the Williams County Gazette.
He was elected probate judge OF
Williams county, but resigned on
April 1S, 1861. to enlist as a private
in the Fourteenth o. V. I. He was
in the first battles of Virginia and
was commissioned a lieutenant In the
Hundred and Eleventh o. V. l. July,
1861, being promoted to adjutanC the
same day. On February 1, 1863, he
was commissioned major and assigned
under General Burnside.
On February 70, 1864, he received
a commission as lieutenant colonel
and given command of the One Hun
dred and Eleventh, which regiment
he commanded in all the battles II.
Georgia and Tennessee until the close
of the war. He was then breveted
brigadier general for gallantry in ac-
ton at Franklin and for long and
faithful service.
On his return from war he again
took up literary pursuits, but was
elected and served as secretary of
the state of Ohio from 1869 to 1873,
during which time he organized the
bureau of statistics. From 1873 to
1875 he represented the Sixth district
of Ohio in the forty-third congress
Gen. Sherwood edited the Cleve-
land Leader in 1866. was editor of
the Toledo Commercial in 1868, of
the Toledo Journal 1874 to 1888, and
of the Canton News-Democrat from
1888 to 1897. In 1897 he became edi-
tor and publisher Of the American
Sportsman.
When defeated for reelection to
congress by political ring, his
friends showed their reliance in him
by electing him probate Judge of
Lucas county from 1878 to 1881
When the general became candi-
date for congress this fall he re-
membered that four companies in the
old One Hundred and Eighth came
from Wood county, one from Fulton,
one from ottawa and one from Lucas.
Some of the old comrades were still
to be found over in their old homes.
The general again sounded the call
to arms and the results in Wood
show how they heard it. The old
soldiers marshaled their families,
their relatives and hosts of friends
10 the standard of Sherwood and the
last of the old guard made not their
stand in vain.
KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD.
Kate Brownlee Sherwood, editor,
author and wife of Gen. Isaac R. Sher'
wood, congressmaH-eleCt from the
Ninth district, has a personality OF
her own which is recognized by all
who know her or are acquainted with
her works In Toledo one seldom
hears of Gen Sherwood's wife. 1t is
always Kate Brownlee Sherwood
And well has she earned this distinc
tion of an individual personality.
While Gen. SHERWOOD mas pro
gressed through the various politica
stages of Democracy and Republican
ism to Independence, Kate Brownlet
Sherwood has not always agreed witt
him in the Issues While the genera
was espousing the cause of Democra
cy, she was an earnest advocate o
Republicanism, sincerely believing tn,
principles of that party to be tn
best obtainable.
Later Mrs. Sherwood went farther
Asked as to her present political be
lief, she will frankly admit to beini
a Socialist and give her hearer yer
logical reasons why the present tren
of the people today is toward tn
goal of true Socialism.
Kate Brownlee Sherwood was Dor
in Poland. o., September "a 1841, He
father was Judge James Brownies
heir of Scottish lord, who gave u
a vast inheritance to come to Americ
in 1928. Mrs. Sherwood was educate
in the Union seminary at Poland an
married Gen. Sherwood September
1859