Letter : Washington, to John Sherman, 1877 June 6.

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...

Wylie, Andrew, 1814-1905

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Jurist. LL.D., U. of Indiana, 1832. Adm. to Bar 1837. Practiced law in Pittsburg, Pa., 1837-1848; in Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D.C., 1848-1863. Judge, Superior Court of D.C., 1863-1865. Gave only vote for Lincoln in 1860 which was given in Alexandria. Retired 1885. From the description of Papers of Andrew Wylie, 1854-1886 (inclusive). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 122411992 Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. From ...

Wright, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1876-1950

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United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...