Sherman family correspondence and photographs, 1862-[19--] (bulk 1881-1889).

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Sherman family correspondence and photographs, 1862-[19--] (bulk 1881-1889).

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Correspondence includes two signed typescript copies of letters from John Sherman to Edward P. Ransom of Cincinnati regarding the nomination of Judge J.B. Foraker for [governor of Ohio?] and the recommendation of Ransom for an unidentified patronage position. Two handwritten letters with envelope between William T. Sherman and his nephew, Ramsey Probasco, regarding the nephew's admiration of Sherman and feelings toward war and duty to country. Also includes six Sherman family photographs.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7503292

Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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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...

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...

Ransom, Edward P.

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Foraker, Joseph Benson, 1846-1917

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Ohio lawyer and jurist; Ohio governor, 1886-1890; U.S. senator, 1896-1908; brevet captain, 89th Ohio Infantry, Company A, during Civil War. From the description of Letter : Cincinnati, [Ohio], to B[enjamin] H[enry] Grierson, Whipple Barracks, A.T., 1885 Nov. 4. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30607647 Joseph Benson Foraker served as both governor of and U.S. senator for the state of Ohio. Archibald Gracie was the author of a Civil War history enti...

Sherman family.

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Probasco, Ramsey

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