Daniel Sherman (October 14, 1721 in

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

– July 28, 1799) was an American state legislator and judge from

. He sat in the

Connecticut General Assembly The Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is a bicameral body composed of the 151-member House of Representatives and the 36-member Senate. It meets in the state capital, Hartford. ...

for 30 years.

Personal life

Sherman married Mindwell Taylor on February 14, 1744, in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut.Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Born on September 5, 1758, their son was the Judge

Taylor Sherman Taylor Sherman (September 5, 1758 – May 14, 1815) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1794, May 1795, and May 1796. Sherman was born in Woodbury, Connecticut on September 5, 1758. He ...

, who was a lawyer and judge in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Legacy

Sherman had many prominent descendants, including: * his son, judge Taylor Sherman; *

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judge

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, who was his grandson; *

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general

William Tecumseh Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman ( ; February 8, 1820February 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), achieving recognition for his com ...

, Federal judge

Charles Taylor Sherman Charles Taylor Sherman (February 3, 1811 – January 1, 1879) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Education and career Born on February 3, 1811, in Norwalk, Connecticut, Sh ...

, and businessman

Hoyt Sherman Major Hoyt Sherman (November 21, 1827 – January 25, 1904), a member of the prominent Sherman family, was an American banker. Biography Hoyt Sherman was born in 1827 in Lancaster, Ohio, the son of Charles R. Sherman, Judge of the Ohio Su ...

, all of whom were his great-grandsons; * Jesuit priest

Thomas Ewing Sherman Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (October 12, 1856 – April 29, 1933) was an American lawyer, educator, and Catholic priest. He was the fourth child and second son of Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman. Li ...

, a great-great-grandson.

References

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