Richard U. Sherman

Richard Updike Sherman (1819–1895) was a New York State politician and newspaper publisher and editor. He was also the father of Vice President of the United States James S. 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 of the New York State Assembly, from January 7, 1851, to January 6, 1857 (Whig, later Republican)
• Member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co., 1st D.) in 1857 (as a Republican), 1875 and 1876 (both as a Democrat)
• a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68
• Assistant clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (1870)
• Secretary, New York State Fish and Game Commission (1879–1890)
• Trustee, New Hartford Cotton Company - he restocked the lakes of the Adirondack Mountains area with fish; also protected the forests from unscrupulous lumber dealers
• President, New Hartford Canning Company, established in 1880.

Marriage

He married his distant cousin Mary Frances Sherman. They had six children:

• Richard W., a civil engineer and two-term Mayor of the City of Utica, New York
• Stalham W., Superintendent and Treasurer of New Hartford Canning Co., who died in 1894
• Mary Louise, wife of Henry J. Cookinham (a law partner of James Schoolcraft Sherman)
• James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th vice president of the United States
• Sanford F., Owner of S. F. Sherman, Men’s Furnishings, a very prominent house devoted to the sale of that class of goods for men’s wear popularly known as men’s furnishings, which he established in 1878.
• Willet H., who died in New Hartford in 1868, aged six.

References

• History of the Mohawk Valley - Gateway to the West - 1614-1925 -[1]
• Abridged Compendium, Frederick Virkus, p. 2,934
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949, Biographies.
• Cheater.com, [2], 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, [3], 31 July 2000.

“The Mercantile and Manufacturing Progress of the City of Utica, N.Y. and Environs” by the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Exchange of Utica, N.Y., published by Commerce Publishing Company, 1888.