Evening star., 1925-10-16
GEN. l. r. SHERWOOD, VETERAN
LEGISLATOR, DIES AT AGE OF 90
Was Union Officer in Civil
War and Served Ohio
in Congress.
u. S. Senator F. B. Willis
Expected to Deliver
Grafton at Funeral.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO. Ohio, October 16.-Gen.
Isaac II. Sherwood, 9G-year-old vet
eran of the Civil War and former
Representative from the ninth Ohio
district died Yesterday from perniciOus
anaemia, against which he had fought
losing battle since last Summer. He
had been unconscious since last
Wednesday.
Lenore Sherwood, his daughter, and
other close relatives were present
when he died.
Gen Sherwood began failing early
in the Summer, but his illness did not
become serious until two months ago.
Funeral services will be held here
Monday afternoon Burial will be in
Woodlawn Cemetery. United States
Senator Frank B. Willis, "a close friend
of Sherwoods. is expected to deliver
the funeral grafton.
Devoted Life to Country.
On the field of battle throughout
the Civil War, in several State posi-
tionS in Ohio and as d Representa-
tive in Congress, Isaac r. Sherwood
devoted the greater part of his life
to his country and his adopted State.
He was one of those tireless humans
upon whom age apparently had no
effect. In the Civil War he never
looked back. and he refused to learn
the meaning Of the word retreat, the
result being that his gallant conduct
won for him promotions all along the
line from an Infantry private to
brigadier general of volunteers.
In .his public life Gen. Sherwood
showed the same characteristics. and.
although halted occasionally, he con.
stantly kept looking forward and 60
ing ahead. When, in his 88th year, he
was elected to the lower house of
Congress for his ninth term. his men,
tai faculties We're as active and his
interest in public affairs as keen as
when he was elected for his first term
90 years previously.
1t was in January. 1924, that he
made in the House a vigorous denunci.
alton of the Volstead law and the
Anti-Saloon League, although, he as
serted, he had signed when IL years
old pledge never to vote for law
that permitted the sale of intoxicating
liquor as beverage. The Anti
Saloon League, he said, was not
Christian in its methods, but is vim
dictive, vengeful and mercenary, and
by its drastic methods Of trying to
enforce the Volstead law has hatch.
ed the biggest crop of lawbreakers
ever inflicted upon a community
Gen. Sherwood began making his
brilliant Civil War record when a
private In the 14th Ohio Infantry
He was an intrepid soldier and won
one promotion after another until in
February, 1865, he was made brigadier
general Of volunteers. This was the
result of a petition signed by his COM
rades who asked that the honor be
conferred upon him for gallant and
meritorious services at the battle Of
Resaca. June IA, 1854; at Franklin.
Tenn, November 80, 1864, and at
Nashville, December Is, 1864" He
fought in 43 battles, was under fire
123 days and had been complimented
in order six times for gallant conduct
in battle. He was mustered out Of
the Army June 27, 1865.
After the war Gen. Sherwood re-
turned to newspaper. work, of which
he had had a taste before enlisting.
He was editor Of the Toledo Daily
Commercial for a year and editorial
writer for the Cleveland Leader for
two years. After serving two terms
as secretary of state in Ohio he was
elected in 1872 as Representative in
Congress from the sixth Ohio district.
Up to that time he had been Re-
publican. Denied a denomination at
the conclusion of his term, he again
turned to newspaper work, pur-
chasing the Toledo Journal, Of which
he was editor nine years.
In the meantime Lucas County,
Ohio, elected Gen. Sherwood as pro-
bate judge in 1873, in which office he
served six years. Temporarily out of
politics again, he became editor of the