Sherman, J. W
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress.
SHERMAN, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1855, in Utica, N. Y. He received an academic and collegiate education,.. graduating from Hamilton college in the class of 1878; and was admitted to the bar in 1880, becoming a member of the firm of Cookinham and Sherman.
He was elected mayor of Utica, N.
Y., in 1884, as a re-- publican, receiving a substantial majority in a democratic city.
He was chairman of the republican state convention in Saratoga in 1895; and was. elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftythird, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth gresses as a republican. con-