William Lawrence
Published: 2015-07-13
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Excerpt from Brief Sketch of the Life and Public Services of John Sherman: With Some Considerations in Favour of His Nomination in 1888 as the Republican Candidate for the Presidency While engaged in this service he became personally interested in tracts of land located in Sherman Township, Huron County; but he returned to Connecticut, where he died in 1815. He married early in life Elizabeth Stoddard, a lineal descendant of Anthony Stoddard, who emigrated from England to Boston in 1639. She was a sincere and honest woman, devoted to her husband and her children, and lived to a good old age, dying in Ohio about 1848. Charles Robert Sherman, their son (the father of John Sherman), was born and brought up at Norwalk, Connecticut, where he in due time commenced the study of the law in the office of his father, who was then associated with Judge Chapman. He was admitted to the Bar in 1810, and on the 10th of May of that year he married Mary Hoyt, also of Norwalk, who had grown up with him from childhood. She was a steadfast, true-hearted woman, devoted to her family and beloved by her friends. A few months after his marriage he went to Ohio in search of a home, leaving his wife in Connecticut. He arrived at Lancaster on his way to Cincinnati, and was so much pleased with the place and the people that he concluded to remain there. Receiving a cordial welcome, he was soon engrossed in the practice of his profession. The following season his wife came to him across the Alleghanies on horseback, carrying her infant child (afterward Judge Charles T. Sherman) on a pillow strapped before her saddle. It was a long and dreary road, beset with hardships, but Mrs. Sherman was fortunate in having as companions a considerable party of emigrants from her native region who sought on the western slope of the Alleghanies a new home. Cheered by the presence of his wife and child, Charles Robert Sherman rapidly rose to eminence as an eloquent advocate, and as a judicious reliable counselor. His professional character was spotless, and while he would refuse clients when his conscience would not permit him to screen their wrong-doings, he was always ready to plead the cause of the innocent and oppressed without reward. While devoted to his profession, he extended his reading beyond his law-books, and was generally versed in the literature of the day. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and tilled the highest offices in the grand bodies of that order in Ohio. During the pioneer years of Ohio, tradition records that its lawyers were obliged to travel over extensive circuits in practicing their profession. They were accustomed to accompanying the courts from county to county, and in this way to traverse a large extent of country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
