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LEFT SHERMAN 390 SHERMAN SHERMAN, a city and county-seat of Grayson co., Tex.; on the Texas and Pa- cific, the Houston and Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads; 64 miles N. of Dallas. It contains Aus- tin College (Pres.), North Texas Female College (M. E.), Carr-Carlton Christian College for Women, public library, Y. M. C. A. Building, Federal buildings, water- works, electric lights, National and other banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has cotton gins, a cotton-seed oil mill, machine shops, foundries, flour mills, planing mills, carriage and wagon fac- tories, marble and brick works, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,412; (1920) 15,031. SHERMAN, FRANK DEMPSTER, an American poet; born in Peekskill, N. Y., May 6, 1860. Educated at Colum- bia College and Harvard University, he became adjunct professor in the Columbia School of Architecture. He published: "Madrigals and Catches"; "Lyrics for a Lute"; and, with John Kendrick Bangs, "New Waggings of Old Tales"; "Little Folk Lyrics"; "Lyrics of Joy" (1904); "A Southern Flight" (with Clinton Scol- lard, 1906) ; and "Complete Poems" (1918). He died in 1916. SHERMAN, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, an Americap public official, and vice-presi- dent of the United States, born at Utica, N. Y., in 1855. He graduated from Ham- ilton College in 1878, and after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1880. For several years he practiced his pro- fession in Utica. He was early interested in politics and was elected chairman of the Oneida Republican County Committee while he was still a young man. In 1884- 1885, he was mayor of Utica, and from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1893 to 1909, he was a member of Congress. He served as chairman of the Republican State conventions in 1895, 1900, and 1908, and chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee in 1906. He was nominated vice-president on the ticket of William H. Taft, and was elected in 1908. He died in 1912. SHERMAN, JOHN, an American statesman; born in Lancaster, O., May 10, 1823; brother of Gen. William T. Sher- man; was admitted to the bar in 1844; served as a delegate to the National Whig conventions of 1848 and 1852; and was a member of Congress in 1855-1861. He took a prominent part in the proceedings of the House; was on the Committee of Inquiry sent to Kansas; and joined the movement for the formation of the Re- publican party. In 1861-1877 he was in the Senate and there was prominently identified with the support of all measures for the prosecution of the Civil War; defended the protective tariff, the restora- tion of specie payments, and the refund- ing of the National debt. He was a member of the committee that visited Louisiana to supervise the counting of the returns of that State, and a member of JOHN SHERMAN the Electoral Commission. He was See* retary of the Treasury in 1877-1881, and superintended the resumption of specie payments in 1879, after a suspension of 17 years. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1881 and continued to hold that office till 1897, when he was appointed Secre- tary of State by President McKinley. He resigned that office, however, in 1898, on account of failing health. In 1885 he was president of the Senate pro tern., but declined re-election at the end of the 49th Congress. He was a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1884 and 1888. Among his publications are: "Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation" (1879) ; and "Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet" (1893). He died in Washington, D. C, Oct. 22, 1900. See Sherman Act. SHERMAN, LAWRENCE YATES, a United States Senator from Illinois, born in Miami co., Ohio, in 1858. In the fol- lowing year his parents removed to Il- linois. He was educated in the common schools and studied law at McKendree College. He practiced law in Chicago and from 1886 to 1890 was county judge of McDonough County. From 1897 to 1899