Charles Taylor Sherman

Charles Taylor Sherman (February 3, 1811 – January 1, 1879) was an American district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Education and career

Born on February 3, 1811, in Norwalk, Connecticut, Sherman graduated from Ohio University in 1830, He read law in 1833, He was a city councilman for Mansfield in 1846.

Federal judicial service

Sherman was nominated by President Andrew Johnson on March 2, 1867, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio vacated by Judge Hiram V. Willson.

Later activities

After Sherman retired from practicing law, he became interested in the organization of the agricultural society of Richland County, Ohio, and encouraged the "introduction of better modes for the larger production of better quality of fruits."

Death

Sherman died on January 1, 1879, in Cleveland, Ohio. His family emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1634. His great-grandfather and grandfather both served on the state courts of Connecticut. When Sherman was young, his family moved to Lancaster, Ohio, where his father established a prominent law practice and later became a member of the Ohio Supreme Court. His two younger brothers were John Sherman, United States Senator from Ohio, and William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General of the Union Army. Sherman married Eliza Williams of Dayton, Ohio, on February 2, 1841, and they became the parents of seven children: Mary Hoyt, who became the wife of General Nelson A. Miles, United States Army; Henry Stoddard, who became a Cleveland attorney; John J., who became a United States Marshal in New Mexico; Charles F. Cook who died in infancy; Anna Wallace, who died at the age of 20 in 1870; Eliza A. Williams, who married Colgate Hoyt of Cleveland; and Elizabeth Bancroft, who married James D. Cameron, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania.