| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1789, Dec. 28 | Born near West Liberty, Ohio County, Va. |
| 1792 | Moved with family to Marietta, Ohio |
| 1798 | Moved with family to Ames Township, Athens County, Ohio |
| 1809-1812 | Worked intermittently at the Kanawha, Va., saltworks |
| 1812-1815 | Attended Ohio University, Athens, Ohio |
| 1815-1816 | Studied law in the office of Philemon Beecher, Lancaster, Ohio; admitted to the bar in 1816 |
| circa 1817-1822 | Prosecuting attorney, Fairfield County, Ohio |
| 1820 | Married Maria Wills Boyle (died 1864) |
| 1829 | Adopted William T. Sherman |
| 1830 | Elected from Ohio, United States Senate |
| 1841 | Appointed secretary of the treasury; resigned Sept. 11 |
| 1849-1850 | Appointed to organize the Home Department (later Department of the Interior) and served as the first secretary of the interior |
| 1850 | Appointed to the United States Senate to complete unexpired term of Thomas Corwin who became secretary of the treasury |
| 1851 | Retired from public service, resuming his law practice |
| 1851-1869 | Practiced law, largely before the United States Supreme Court |
| 1861 | Appointed delegate to the Peace Convention, Washington, D.C. |
| 1868 | Appointed secretary of war; United States Senate did not act on nomination |
| 1871, Oct. 26 | Died, Lancaster, Ohio |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1829, Aug. 7 | Born, Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1852-1854 | Attended Brown University, Providence, R.I. |
| 1854-1857 | Lived in Cincinnati, Ohio; attended Cincinnati Law School; admitted to bar in 1855 |
| 1856 | Married Ellen Ewing Cox |
| 1857-circa 1862 | Moved to Leavenworth, Kans., where he practiced law in the firm Ewing, Denman & Company with his brother, Hugh, and brothers-in-law, Hampton B. Denman and William T. Sherman; firm became Sherman, Ewing & McCook in 1859 |
| 1858 | Member, Kansas Constitutional Convention |
| 1861 | Appointed delegate to Peace Convention, Washington, D.C.
Served as first chief justice, Kansas Supreme Court; resigned 1862 |
| 1862 | Brevetted major-general, United States Army; resigned 1865 |
| 1865 | Defended Samuel Arnold, Edward Spangler, and Samuel Mudd on charges of conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln |
| 1865-1870 | Practiced law with Ewing & Browning, Washington, D.C. |
| 1870 | Moved to Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1877-1881 | Elected from Ohio, United States House of Representatives |
| 1882 | Moved to Yonkers, New York |
| 1882-1896 | Practiced law, New York, N.Y. |
| 1896, Jan. 21 | Died New York, N.Y. |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1835, Mar. 6 | Born, Lancaster, Ohio |
| circa 1850-circa 1854 | Attended St. Joseph's College, Perry County, Ohio, and Gonzaga University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1856-1858 | Attended University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. |
| 1860 | Bachelor of laws, Cincinnati College, Cincinnati, Ohio
Admitted to the bar, St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1861 | Entered United States Army with rank of captain |
| 1863-1867 | Served under his brother-in-law, William T. Sherman, and was part of the "March to the Sea" |
| 1865 | Brevetted colonel
Promoted to brigadier-general in charge of volunteers; resigned in 1867 |
| 1867-1883 | Practiced law, Washington, D.C. |
| 1869 | Admitted to bar of the United States Supreme Court |
| 1870 | Married Virginia Larwill Miller (died 1937) |
| 1874-1883 | Served as Catholic commissioner of Indian missions; became Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions in 1874 |
| 1883, June 20 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1826, Oct. 31 | Born, Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1848 | Entered United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; resigned before graduation |
| 1854-1856 | Admitted to the bar and practiced law, St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1857-1861 | Moved to Leavenworth, Kans., where he practiced law in the firm Ewing, Denman & Company with his brother, Thomas, and brothers-in-law, Hampton B. Denman and William T. Sherman; firm became Sherman, Ewing & McCook in 1859; speculated in lands, roads, and government housing |
| 1858 | Married Henrietta Young (died 1927) |
| 1861 | Entered United States Army with rank of major |
| 1862 | Promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers |
| 1865 | Brevetted major-general of volunteers; resigned in 1866 |
| 1866-1870 | Served as minister to Holland |
| 1870-circa 1875 | Practiced law, Washington, D.C. |
| circa 1875 | Moved to Lancaster, Ohio |
| 1905, June 30 | Died near Lancaster, Ohio |
