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Kan., 1867-68. He conducted the campaigns against the Indians in the winter of 1868, com- manded the military division of the Mississippi with headquarters at Chicago and was appointed lieutenant-general of the U.S. army by President ■Grant in 1889. He visited Europe in 1870 and was a guest of the German staff during the battle of Gravelotte. He commanded the western and southwestern military divisions of the United States, 1878-83; and was married in 1879 to a daugliter of Gen. Daniel H. Rucker, U.S.A. Upon the retirement of General Siierman in 1883, Sheridan succeeded to the command of the U.S. army, and in 1888 by act of congress approved by President Cleveland he was given the rank and emoluments of general, U.S.A., the title to terminate with his life. In the selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame for great Americans, New York university, October, 1900, his name received 23 votes in class Soldiers and Sailors, this number being equalled by Stephen Decatur and Thomas J. Jackson and excelled only by Grant, Farragut, Greene, Lee, Perry and Thomas. In April, 1903, General Sheridan's Washington residence, which had been presented to him by admirers tliroughout the country, was sold by Mrs. Sheridan for $55,000. General Sheridan was taken ill from exposure caused by travel in the west, and died in Nonquitt, Mass., Aug. 5, 1888.

SHERAIAN, Buren Robinson, governor of Towa, was born in Phelps, N. Y.. May 28, 1836; son of Pliineas L. and Eveline (Robinson) Sher- man. He attended the puljlic schools at Elmira, N. Y., and in 1855 moved to Geneseo, la. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1859, and moved to Vinton, la. In 1861 he en- listed as a private in com- pany E, 13th Iowa volun- teers, was commissioned 2d lieutenant, July, 1861, was wounded at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and promoted captain, April 11, 1862, re- signing a year later, because of his wounds. He was married Aug. 20, 1802, to Lena, daughter of Benjamin and Harriet (Little) Kendall of Vinton, la. He was county judge of Benton county, 1803- €6, clerk of the district court, 1866-75, auditor of the state of Iowa, 1875-81, and Republican gov- ernor of Iowa, 1882-86. The University of the State of Iowa conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1883.

SHERMAN, Frank Dempster, author, was born in Peekskill, N. Y., May 6, 1860; son of Jolui Dempster and Lucy (McFarland) Siierman; grandson of James and Fidelia (Fairchild) Sher- man and of Daniel and Martha (Skinner) McFar- land and a descendant of James Sherman. He

was graduated from the School of Mines, Co- lumbia college. New York city. Ph. B., 1884; was assistant in architecture at Columbia, 1887-88; instructor in the same, 1888-91, and in the latter year promoted adjunct-professor of architecture. He was married, Nov. 16, 1887, to Juliet Mersereau Durand, daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (Merse- reau) Durand, of Newark, N.J. He is the author of: Madrigals and Catclies (1887); New Waggings of Old Tales with John Kendrick Bangs (1887); Lyrics for a Lute (1890), and Little- Folk Lyrics (1892 and 1897).

SHERMAN, Henry, jurist, was born in Al- bany, N. Y., March 6, 1808; son of Josiah and Hannah (Jones) Sherman. He was graduated at Yale, A.B. 1829, A.M. 1832, attended Princeton Theological seminary in 1829, and fitted for the law profession at Yale. He was admitted to the bar in 1832, engaged in practice in Albany, in New York city, in Hartford, Conn., and in Wash- ington, D. C, successively. He was married Sept. 20, 1843, to Anna Amelia, daughter of Michael Burnham, publisher of the New York Evening Post. He was connected with a bureau of the U. S. Treasury department at Washington, D.C., 1861-68, was appointed chief justice of the territory of New Mexico, by President Lincoln, April 13, 1865, President Johnson honoring the appointment by sending him his commission, but he soon after resigned and returned to the prac- tice of law in Washington, D.C. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Trinity college in 1850. He is the author of: An Analytical Digest of the Law of Marine Lisurance to the Present Time (1841); Governmental History of United States of America (1843), and Slavery in the United States of America (1858). He died in Washington, D.C, March 28, 1879.

SHERMAN, John, statesman, was born in Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823; son of Charles R. and Mary (Hoyt) Sherman, natives of Norwalk, Conn., grandson of Taylor and Elizabeth (Stod- dard) Sherman, and a direct descendant of Roger Sherman. His father, in 1810, removed from Norwalk, Conn., to Lancaster, Ohio, where he was a prominent lawyer; became a judge of the state supreme court under the constitution of 1802, and died at Lebanon, Ohio, June 24, 1829, leaving eleven children, John being the eighth. He was brought up by his cousin, John Sherman, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, attended Homer academy, Lancaster, Pa., 1835-37, and obtained employ- ment on the " Muskingum improvement," under Colonel Curtis, as junior rodnian of an engineer corps in 1839, He was given charge of the work at Beverly, Ohio, in 1838, studied law with his brother Charles S. Sherman, at Mansfield. Ohio, was admitted to the bar on reaching his majority in 1844, and entered into partnership with his