SHERMAN, John.
John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet.
Chicago: The Werner Company , 1895.
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Limited Signed First Edition of John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet
Signed limited first edition of this memoir of Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State John Sherman, the younger brother of General William Tecumseh Sherman; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Super octavo, two volumes, bound in ontemporary half calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, illustrated with photographs and facsimile letters. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 655. In good condition, Vol. I missing spine, some los to the spine of Vol. II, front and rear panels of both volumes detached, rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels of both volumes, light loss to a few pages in both volumes. 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.
John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet.
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