Show r ta L RMA VICE PRESIDENT ANSWERS SUM MONS OK OF GRIM REAPER AFTER LONG AND BRAVE BATTLE end comee comes Peace peacefully full y with of the family at his bedside the au of fight having been realized for day days utica N Y vico pre president aident james Schooler schoolcraft aft arman S died at his homo home in this city a uj 94 1 wednesday night october 30 of poison c bused by brights dise avem ao 10 ho had been sinking sinco since early morning and it was realized that death was only a question of a few hours mr air sherman was unconscious when the end camo came and had been in that conditi condition om tor for several hours all the members of 0 the immediate family were witnesses to the final scene in addition to mrs lira sherman there vere acre in the death chamber their three sons sherrill ll richard U and thomas at sherman and their respective wives R at M and sanford sherman brothers of mr air and mrs airs L B moore and mrs lira 11 J cookinham sisters of mr air sherman tho the mayor gave out a statement voicing tho the general grief and the big bell at city hall as well as many church bells tolled out the doleful new to a public to which it was not news james schoolcraft sherman vice pre of the united states was as acra in utica N Y on october 24 1155 55 he lie was married in 1881 to carrie babcock at east orange N J they have three sons sherrill ll richard U and thomaa thomas at all living and in business in utica the vico pres am an 1 1 t I 1 04 james jem cherman sherman dent was an elk a trustee of hamilton college a member of dutch reformed church a member of many clubs and a business man mai of wide interests te sherman belonged to the school of republicanism nowadays popular called regular and he fought his pol political lUcal battles without compromise or flinching the events he be helped to shape are so comparatively recent that history cannot assign him to his prefer proper place until it also records the w work ork of his contemporaries to the house of representatives of the fiftieth congress as b he a came in the tho winter of 1887 just passed his thirty second birthday he had bad been elected mayor of utica two years before like many others who came to lead in the national legislature he brought with him an education in law he was well born and well bred his father richard W sherman was an editor and public figure in new york state two sessions of congress found sher man defeated and ou out t of office bul but not for long henry W bentley of Bo blonville onville onelda oneida county beat him by less than a thousand votes in the race for the fifty second oon grets in the interim sherman went back to lillea built up bis 1 law aw practice and returned to the Fifty third congress with a signal tic tory he remained in the house with out defeat to the sixtieth congre congress and elev elected ted when he was wa nominated vice president on OIL the ticket with mr tatt taft any review of shermans life e would not be complete com without ut a ref reference erenea to his work in the house there is 15 recorded no time when he moved galleries to applaud by a debate from the floor coor or charged any votes by eloquence rut put the statutes bear marks of his work in committee and caucus and ani the results of b his Is labors on th the tiles rules committee commItte 4 the inte interest restate ato berce commit committee teG and other branches it the machinery of the house in new york state politics sh shen leading figuro he always nan man was a was active in state conventions and a national gatherings of the figure at all |