Franked envelope, April 12, [1800s].

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Franked envelope, April 12, [1800s].

Envelope only, from Senate Chamber, franked by John Sherman, addressed to George J. Anderson of Sandusky, Ohio.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6813168

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Sherman, John, 1823-1900

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Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. After Taylor's death in 1815, his son Charles, newly married to Mary Hoyt, moved the family west to Ohio. Several other Sherman relatives soon followed, and Charles becam...