Background
Sherman was the third son of Josiah and Hannah (Jones) Sherman, of Albany, New York, where he was born March 6, 1808.
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Henry Sherman
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He graduated from Yale College in 1829.
Career
He served as Chief Justice of the New Mexico Territory. He spent a part of the first year after graduation in the Princeton Theological Seminary, and then took up the study of law in the Yale Law School, returning in 1832 to his home in Albany, and there entering his profession. He soon removed to New York City, and while practicing there published in 1841 a Digest of the Law of Marine Insurance, which ran through several editions.
In 1843 he also published a Governmental History of the United States, for use in schools.
In 1850 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and there published (1858) a work on slavery, and (1860) an enlarged edition of his History. In 1861 he removed to Washington, and was employed until 1868 in connection with one of the bureaus of the Treasury Department.
In 1868, he resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, in which he continued until his death (which occurred, after a three weeks" illness, from erysipelas), being at that time of the law firm of Sherman & AtLee. He died in Washington, Doctorate. C, March 28, 1879.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
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