VETERAN OF CIVIL
WAR DAYS DIES
AT HOME, TOLEDO
TOLEDO, Oct. 16. (^—General I.
R. Sherwood, vdteran of Civil War
days, and hero of many battles, died
at his home in Toledo last night. He
had been unconscious the past few
days. A brief sketch of the life of the
aged general, follows:
On the field of battle throughout the
Civil War, in several state positions
in Ohio and as a Representative in
Congress, Isaac R. Sherwood devoted
the greater part of his life to his
country and his adopted state.
He was one of those tireless humans
upon whom age apparently had no ef
fect. In the Civil War he never look
ed back and refused to learn the mean
ing of retreat, the result being that
his gallant conduct won for him pro
motions all along the line from an in
fantryman to brigadier general of the
volunteers.
In his public life General Sherwood
showed the same characteristics, and
although halted occasionally, he con
stantly kept looking forward and go
ing ahead. When, in his SSth year,
he was elected to the lower house of
Congress for his ninth term, his men
tal faculties were as active and his in
terest in public affairs as keen as
when he was elected for his first term
50 years previously.
It was in January 1924, that he made
in the house a vigorous denunciation
of the Volstead law and the Anti-Sa
loon law, although, he asserted, he had
signed a pledge when twelve years old
never to vote for a law that permit
ted the sale of intoxicating liquor as
a beverage. The Anti-Saloon League,
he said, was not Christian in its meth
ods, but “is vindictive, vengeful and
mercenary, and by its drastic methods
of trying to enforce the Volstead Act
has hatched the biggest crop of law
breakers ever inflicted upon a com
munity,’1 ** I -t-*'**” i.——►. ~
General Sherwood began making his
brilliant Civil War record when a pri
vate in the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry.
He was an intrepid soldier and won
one promotion after another until in
February, 1865, he was made brigadier
general of the volunteers. This was
the result of a petition signed by his
comrades who asked the honor be
conferred upon him for “gallant and
meritorious services at the battle of
Resaca, June 14, 1864, at Franklin,
Tenn., November 30, 1S64, and at Nash
ville, December 15, 1864.” He fought
in 48 battles, and was under fire 123
days and had been complimented in
orders six times for gallant conduct
in battle. He was mustered out of the
army June 27, 1865.
After the war General Sherwood re
turned to newspaper work, of which
he had a taste before enlisting. He
was editor of the Toledo Daily Com
mercial for a year and editorial writer
for the Cleveland Leader for two or
three years. After serving twro terms
as secretary of state in Ohio he was
elected in 1872 as representative in
Congress from the Sixth Ohio district.
Up to that time he had been a Repub
lican. Denied a renomination at the
conclusion of his term he again turn
ed to newspaper work, purchasing the
Toledo Journal, of which he was edi
tor nine years.
In the meantime Lucas County, O.,
elected General Sherwood as probate
judge in 1S79, serving six years. Tem
porarily out of politics again he be
came editor of the Canton News-Dem
acrat, remaining with that newspaper
ten years.
General Sherwood began his long
service in the House of Represen
tatives in 1906, when he was elected
from the Ninth Ohio district. He
was re-elected to each Congress until
1920, when he was defeated, but came
back two years later. He was the
author of the Sherwood dollar-a-day
pension bill, passed in May, 1912, pro
viding for a sliding scale of pensions
from $13 toi $30 a month, according to
period of service and the age of the
pensioner.
New York claimed General Sher
wood as a native son, he having been
born at Stanford, Dutchess County,
August 13, 1835, the son of Aaron
Sherwood who fought in the wrar of
1812. After receiving his preliminary
education of the Hudson River Insti#
Lute at Claverack, N. Y., the son went
to Ohio and studied for two years at .
Antioch, College, when Horace Mann
ftas president of that institution. He :
then went to Ohio Law College at Po
land, from wrhich he was graduated in
1859 with the degree of LL. B.
During hi%. law course General Sher
wood embarked in the newspaper bus
iness, purchasing the Williams County
Gazette at Bryan when he was only 22
»
years old. Two years after his grad
uation from the law college he was
elected probate judge of Williams
County, but resigned after a few days
to enlist for Civil War Service.
General Sherwood in September 1859
married Katherine Margaret Brownlee
daughter of Judge James Brownlee, of
Poland. His wife, who was a writer,
was second president of the Women’s
Relief Corps. They had three child
ren.
YEGGS GET $150 AND
OVERLOOK A THOUSAND
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 17. (JP)—
Intimidating a woman clerk in a con
fectionary store here yesterday, two
masked robbers leisurely robbed the
place of $150 greeting customers as
they entered and forcing them to lie
lown behind the soda fountain. The
robbers did not find the $1000 just
Irawn from the bank for cashing pay
checks.
FURTHER REDUCTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 17.(iT*)
—Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
Mellon indicated that he will recom
mend a tax reduction of at least
?300,000,000 and possibly more -when
he appears before the Ways and
Means committee.
SHIPPING BOARD ACTION
DISPLEASES PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16. (£*)—
President Coolidge is plainly displeas
ed over the action of the Shipping
Board is removing Leigh C. Palmer, as
President of the Fleet Corporation and
is surprised that Elmer Crowley, of
Boston, appointed as Mr. Palmer’s suc
cessor, should accept his new post
without first consulting him.
ARRESTED AT SEA AFTER
ELUDING AUTHORITIES
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 17. (jP)—Arrest
ed by radio at sea aboard a U. S.
iestroyer and held on board the
U. S. S. Altair pending the conclu
sion of negotiations between Navy
iepartment and Civil authorities, C.
E. Hoffman, charged wTith the murder
of Louis Ridenour at Houston, Texas,
in 1924, is awaiting in San Diego
harbor for word that will send him
back after more than a year of suc
cessfully eluding authorities.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16. (/p)—
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THREE STUDENTS KILLED
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three more injured in an automobile
disaster near Denver. They were at
tending the Colorado School of Mines.
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