General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection

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General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection

1502-2012

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9g54xh73h

Consists of over 3000 miscellaneous items of primarily American literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents.

32.6 linear feet 66 boxes

eng, Latn

Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 11620628

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...