Richard Updike Sherman

Richard Updike Sherman

Richard Updike Sherman (1819 - 1895) was a New York State politician and newspaper publisher/editor. He was also the father of U.S. Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman.

Richard Sherman was:
*Editor, "Oswego Daily Times" & "The Herkimer Journal" (1844-46)
*Owner/editor of "Rochester Daily Evening Gazette" (1847)
*Co-owner/editor "Utica Morning Herald" (1847-82)
*Brigadier general, New York State militia (1841-57)
*Clerk, New York State Assembly (1851-57)
*New York Assemblyman, 1st District of Oneida County 1857/1875-1876
*Delegate,New York State Constitutional Covention (1867)
*Assistant clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (1870)
*Secretary, New York State Fish and Game Commission (1879-1890)

:Trustee, New Hartford Cotten Company - he restocked the lakes of the Adirondack Mountains area with fish; also protected the forests from unscrupulous lumber dealers

Marriage

He married his distant cousin Mary Frances Sherman. They hadsix children:
*Richard W., a civil engineer and two-term Mayor of the City of Utica, New York
*Stalham W., who died in 1894
*Mary Louise, wife of Henry J. Cookingham (a law partner of James Schoolcraft Sherman)
*James Schoolcraft Sherman, US Vice President
*Sanford F., President, New Hartford Canning Company
*Willet H., who died in New Hartford in 1868, aged six.

References

*History of the Mohawk Valley - Gateway to the West - 1614-1925 - [http://darcisplace.com/darci/sherman.htm]

*Abridged Compendium, Frederick Virkus, p. 2,934

*Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, Biographies.

*Cheater.com, [http://www.cheater.com/homework/Homework/S…/24797977.html] , 31 July 2000

*Dictionary of American Biographies, Charles Scribner and Sons, 1935.

*Genealogical Library Master Catalog. New York State Library, Albany, NY.

*History of Oneida County New York, from 1700 to the Present Time, Vol.I, by Henry J. Cookinham, Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912.

*Robert W. Cherny, "Sherman, James Schoolcraft." Discovery Channel School, original content provided by World Book Online, [http://www.discoveryschool.com/students/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozhistory/s/506600.html] , 31 July 2000.


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