John Sherman.
BURTON, Theodore E.
John Sherman.
First Edition of Theodore E. Burton's John Sherman; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906.
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First edition of this biography of United States Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of John Sherman. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper. In very good condition with slight bumping to the crown and foot of the spine, small closed tear to the crown of the spine, and light rubbing to the front and rear panels. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
John Sherman was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. Initially a Whig, Sherman was among those anti-slavery activists who formed what became the Republican Party. Serving as Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes, Sherman put forth efforts for financial stability and solvency, overseeing an end to wartime inflationary measures and a return to gold-backed money. He was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act, signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison in 1890 and was appointed to Secretary of State in 1897 by President William McKinley.
