John Sherman Dedham Street, Dedham, Essex County, England Birthplace of John Sherman at Lancaster, Ohio Mr. Sherman at the Age of Nineteen Charles T. Sherman First Court House at Mansfield, Ohio Mr. Sherman's First Home in Mansfield, Ohio Kansas Investigating Committee Mr. Sherman at the Age of Thirty-five Mr. Sherman's First Residence in Washington, D. C. Senator Justin S. Morrill Abraham Lincoln General W. T. Sherman Three Ohio Governors--Dennison, Tod, Brough Colfax, Douglas, Fessenden, Ewing (Group.) Edwin M. Stanton U. S. Grant United States Senators--43rd Congress Mr. Sherman's Present Residence at Mansfield, Ohio Library of Mr. Sherman's Mansfield Residence AUTOGRAPH LETTERS VOLUME I. Certificate of Admission to Practice in Supreme Court, January 21, 1852 T. Ewing, December 31, 1848 Wm. H. Seward, September 20, 1852 Certificate of Election as United States Representative, December 9, 1854 Justin S. Morrill, April 1, 1861 W. B. Allison, March 23, 1861 John A. Dix, February 6, 1861 Simon Cameron, November 14, 1861 Edwin M. Stanton, December 7, 1862 Horace Greeley, February 7, 1865 Thurlow Weed, February 28, 1866 Schuyler Colfax, February 17, 1868 Vote on the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, May 16, and 26, 1868 U. S. Grant, June 14, 1871 M. H. Carpenter, July 20, 1871 Roscoe Conkling, October 13, 1871 J. A. Garfield, September 25, 1874 R. B. Hayes, June 19, 1876 R. B. Hayes, February 19, 1877 Cyrus W. Field, March 6, 1877 Wm. M. Evarts, August 30, 1877 TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY OF THE SHERMAN FAMILY. Family Name is of Saxon Origin--"Conquer Death by Virtue"--Arrival of Rev. John Sherman at Boston in 1634--General Sherman's Reply to an English Sexton--Career of Daniel Sherman--My First Visit to Woodbury--"Sherman's Tannery"--Anecdote of "Uncle Dan"--Sketch of My Father and Mother--Address to Enlisting Soldiers--General Reese's Account of My Father's Career--Religion of the Sherman Family--My Belief. CHAPTER II. MY BOYHOOD DAYS AND EARLY LIFE. Born at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823--Death of My Father and Its Effect on Our Family--Early Days at School--A Dead Sheep in the Schoolroom--Lesson in Sunday Sport--Some of My Characteristics--My Attack on the Schoolmaster--Robbing an Orchard--A Rodman at Fourteen and My Experiences While Surveying--Debates at Beverly--Early Use of Liquor--First Visit to Mansfield in 1839--The Famous Campaign of 1840--I Begin the Study of Law. CHAPTER III. OHIO, ITS HISTORY AND RESOURCES. Occupation by the Indians--Washington's Expedition to the Head of the Ohio River--Commencement of the History of the State--Topography, Characteristics, etc., in 1787--Arrival of the First Pioneers--The Treaty of Greenville--Census of 1802 Showed a Population of 45,028 Persons--Occupation of the "Connecticut Reserve"--Era of Internal Improvement--Value of Manufactures in 1890--Vast Resources of the Buckeye State--Love of the "Ohio Man" for His Native State.