The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-07
THE STORY Of SHERMANS LIFE AND SOME
Of HIS CHARACTERISTICS
The 9th Vice-President Was Born in Utica
Where His Death Occurred

luctaut perhaps TO transEfess staid
custom fell in with his ideas and now
adays on a clustering Washington sum
mer day the Senate chamber looks
quite like a business BODY
MISSED At CAPITOL
The illness which proved fatal was
little known of in Washington until
the last few months. Nir Sherman
was not present during the closing
days of the last session, and the Sen
ate without a president pro TEN by
the death of Frye. and unable TO agree
upon a successor got along by tenn
porary agreements placing some sen
ator in the chair for two weeks at
time. When he disappeared. seeking
rest and health in vain. Sherman was
genuinely missed about the capitol,
in the departments. at the White
House where he was frequent call
er and always exchanged new joke
with President Taft, and on the
Il
hurry he used a motor. but is was an
occurrence of an ordinary day with
Congress in session to meet Sherman
walking down Pennsylvania avenue,
often alone, rosy checked and cheer
full, returning the salutations OF
scores who knew him by sight. thought
Of him as Sunny jim" and greeted
him-"Good morning, Mr.. President"
and the passerby who recognized
him was greeted as heartily as the
senator who might be next.
Vive-President Sherman Was born
in Utica, on Oct 81, 1880. He was
married in 1881 to Carrie Bahcock at
East Orange, \. J. They have three
sons, Sheriff., Richard |. and Thomas
NJ, all living and in business in Utica
The Nice-President was an Elk a
trustee of Hamilton college, a mem
Der of the Dutch Reformed church, a
member of many clubs, and bust
ness man of wide interests.
Utica paid tribute TO the memory
of Vice President Sherman. Friday
afternoon and evening During that
time thousands of persons filed silent
ly through the Oneida Court House
and gazed for the last time upon the
face of the Vice President. whose body
was lying in state in the rotunda of
the building.
The body. clothed in a cutaway suit
of black. reposed in a state casket of
solid mahogany, covered with black
broadcloth, with handles of antique
silver. The Presidents face bore
a look of serenity, but il was over
spread with a tinge of purple. The
mark left by the malady that caused
his death. In his right arm lay a
bunch of yiolets, the gift of his grand
children, and in one hand was a spray
of red flowers from the Sherman gar
dens. An Elk's pin the insignia of
one of the few orders to which MI
sherman belonged, cleaned from the
lapel Of his coat
The casket rested upon Il ilag-drap-
ed catafalque over which Was suspend
ed a canopy of flags A floral piece
of white lilies had been laid upon the
casket while palms, ferns and flowers
were arranged in profusion on either
side. The exterior of the building was
in mourning dress. with festoons OF
flags on backgrounds of black and
purple.
The body lay in state from o'clock
in the afternoon until O'Clock at
night, and during that time il was esti-
mated that more than $4,000 people
passed through the building. The pro
cession which earlier in the day es-
corted the body of the yice-President
from the Sherman home on tennessee
street to the court house was an i'm
posing one