Letter, 1877.

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Letter, 1877.

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Letter to Petersen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a medal awarded Petersen for saving the lives of the crew of the barge "Tanner" wrecked near Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin, in 1875.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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...

Petersen, N. A.

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