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The John Sherman Birthplace is a historic house museum at 137 East Main Street in Lancaster, Ohio.Also known as the Sherman House Museum, it is notable as the childhood home of John Sherman (1823-1900), politician and statesman and his older brother, General William T. Sherman (1820-1891), Union Army.
August 11, 1983. Lancaster Historic District is a historic district in Lancaster, Ohio. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] The Lancaster historic district includes the historic central business district of Lancaster, including most of the original town as laid out in 1800. It includes two previously existing ...
Sherman at age 19. Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio on May 10 1823, to Charles Robert Sherman and his wife, Mary Hoyt Sherman, the eighth of their 11 children. [1] John Sherman's grandfather, Taylor Sherman, a Connecticut lawyer and judge, first visited Ohio in the early nineteenth century, gaining title to several parcels of land before returning to Connecticut. [2]
LANCASTER − General William T. Sherman's sword will soon be coming home. Literally. On Tuesday, the Sherman House Museum submitted the winning bid of $130,000 at Fleischer's Auctions for the ...
The Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, Ohio, is watching the auction closely. In a March 21 statement, the museum’s director, Michael Johnson, ...
A sword owned by Sherman, up for auction by Fleischer's Auctions of Columbus, was purchased for nearly $158,000 by Sherman House Museum. Lancaster's Sherman House Museum buys Gen. William Sherman ...
Lancaster (locally / ˈlæŋk (ə) stər / LANK- (ə-)stər) is a city in and the county seat of Fairfield County, Ohio, in the south-central part of the state. [3] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 40,552. The city is near the Hocking River, about 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Columbus and 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Zanesville.
William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; [4] [5] February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), earning recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched earth policies, which he ...