The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-10-29
HIS START
In II COUNTY
j. b.. SHERMAN, DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS-
IN THE THIRD, PIONEERED
NEAR MT. VERNON.

Belle Fourche, 8. D.-J. b. Sher-
a candidate for the democratic nom
ination for congress in the Third dis
trict of South Dakota, was at one
time a resident of Sioux City, study
ing law in Sioux City in the office of
Chase, Kean e Sherman in the early
90s. He is one of the early settlers
of South Dakota, having removed to
a homestead in Dawson county, nea
Mt. Vernon. with his parents i'm the
spring of 1881. For the past twenty
years he has filled an important posi-
ton as law clerk in the United States
land offices at Mitchell, Pierre, Greg
DRY and Belle Fonrche. The Third
district comprises the entire area of
the state west of the Missouri river
and is the hardest for candidates to
cover in making a campaign, as long
stretches of country are yet With out
railroad facilities.
In an interview Mr.. Sherman said:
II have been a lifelong democrat
and at all times an ardent supporter
of and believer in tariff reform and
other time honored democratic prin-
ciples. the Woodrow Wilson kind of
democracy meeting my ideal. l am
now and always have been unalter-
ably opposed to machine politics and
political bossism, believing that the
people should be the sole judges of
the qualifications and fitness of per-
sons seeking office.
1.-TWO years last March, after
consulting and advising with some of
my intimate friends and democrats
of the district, j decided to become
a candidate for representative in con-
gress, but severe sickness in June OF
the same year compelled me to aban-
don the plans. l am nov in perfect
health and in the prime of life and if
nominated pledge myself to make a
vigorous campaign in support of the
entire ticket.
81 was born in the province of AL
sace-Lorraine, Germany, September
%, 1868, of French and German
%parentage, coming to the United
States when s years of age with my
parents, settling on a farm in Dodge
county, Wis. Removed With parents
to a homestead in Dawson county
Dakota territory, in June, 1881. De-
cember, 1889. entered the law office
Of Chase, Kean & Sherman, Siou,
City, Ia, (the Junior member of the
firm being my brother, now of Min.
neapolis, where / read law until July
1898. and later further pursued my
studies in the law office of Goody
koontz & Helwig, Mitchell, S. ID. Mar
ried Mamie Dougherty, daughter o.
3. w. Dougherty of Mt. Vernon, S
D., October %, 1893. We have eigh,
children, five sons and three daugh.
ters, all good democrats.
July L., 1894, during Cleveland's
second administration, was appointed
L clerk in the Mitchell United State!
land office, and in October of thu
same year was admitted to the bal
before the supreme court of the stat,
at Pierre. January 1902, l wa
transferred to the Pierre land office
and resigned the position in October
1907, to take VI ranching in Stanle,
county, twenty-five miles north o.
Midland, as we'll as law and real es
tate business. Reentered the public
land service in the fall of 1908 a
Pierre, continuing my ranching oper
atoms for a number of years, how
ever. At the opening of the Gregory
, land office, March ID, 1909, 1 wa
I, delegated for duty at that place, from
which l was transferred to the Bell,
Fourche office upon it's establish
ment July /, 1909, being employed
in same at this time"