Scope and Content Note
The papers of John Sherman (1823-1900) span the years 1836 to 1900, with most of the material originating between 1857 and 1894. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, commissions and awards, a small number of speeches, material on fiscal matters and an investigation into the affairs of Kansas in 1854, and biographical data. The collection is arranged in six series: General Correspondence, Letterpress Copybooks, Scrapbooks, Miscellany, Oversize, and Microfilm.
The papers contain Sherman's correspondence with his family while he attended school in Pennsylvania, and his correspondence as a United States Representative from Ohio, as a United States senator, as secretary of the treasury under President Rutherford Birchard Hayes and later as secretary of state under President William McKinley. Throughout the collection there is material relating to his role as a leader in Ohio politics from the 1850s to his death.
Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, Cornelius Aultman, Warner M. Bateman, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, Grover Cleveland, John A. J. Creswell, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Columbus Delano, Joe W. Dwyer, Cyrus W. Field, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Walter Quintin Gresham, J. Hadley, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, E. Z. Hays, Andrew Hickenlooper, Francis Lieber, Daniel Manning, Absalom H. Markland, William McKinley, E. W. Metcalf, Levi P. Morton, Fitz-John Porter, Matthew Stanley Quay, T. A. Reamy, Thomas B. Reed, L. D. Reynolds, Joan B. Senter, Mary Hoyt Sherman (mother), John Sherman I, Frances (Fanny) Beecher Sherman and Susan Denman Sherman (sisters), William T. Sherman (brother), St. John B. L. Skinner, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Thaddeus Stevens, James Stewart (father-in-law), J. W. Stoddard (cousin), W. H. Upson, Thurlow Weed, and John E. Williams.