Andrew Taylor Sherman

1821 - 1901  (79 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 34 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Andrew Taylor Sherman
  Birth	1 Sep 1821	Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Feb 1901	Rogers Park, Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, USA
  Siblings	12 Siblings
  + 1. Margaret Scott Sherman,   b. 8 Feb 1815, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. Yes, date unknown ▻ William Watt,  m. 1 Jan 1836 + 2. Henry Sherman,   b. 16 Apr 1817, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 24 Nov 1888, Wilmette, Cook, Illinois, USA  (Age 71 years) ▻ Cynthia Painter Collins,  m. 5 Sep 1841 ;   Martha Ann Watson,  m. 29 Oct 1843 + 3. James Taylor Sherman,   b. 17 Apr 1819, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. Aft 1887, Broadhead, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 68 years) ▻ Abigail Talcott Morgan,  m. 9 Feb 1842 + 4. Andrew Taylor Sherman,   b. 1 Sep 1821, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 5 Feb 1901, Rogers Park, Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, USA  (Age 79 years) ▻ Sophia Dodgeson,  m. 4 Jul 1843 ;   Julia Florence Aldrich,  m. 1 Jan 1862 + 5. Jane Taylor Sherman,   b. 18 Jun 1823, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 13 Mar 1896  (Age 72 years) ▻ Dr James Morvin Smith,  m. 8 May 1845 ;   James Henry Osgood,  m. 3 Jun 1856 + 6. Harriet Sherman,   b. 17 Sep 1825, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Edward Strong, Rev D.D.,  m. 10 Sep 1874 ;   Clark Wright, Dr,  m. 30 Oct 1856 + 7. Elizabeth Taylor Sherman,   b. 15 Jun 1827, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 13 Jun 1887, New York, New York, USA  (Age 59 years) ▻ John Sloane,  m. 7 Sep 1848   8. Janet Taylor Sherman,   b. 23 Jul 1829, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. Yes, date unknown + 9. John Taylor Sherman,   b. 10 Nov 1831, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Julia Champion Deming,  m. 10 May 1859 + 10. Robert Taylor Sherman,   b. 31 Mar 1834, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 19 Nov 1891, Orange, Essex, New Jersey, USA  (Age 57 years) ▻ Maria Augusta Hewitt,  m. 15 Jan 1866   11. Roger Sherman,   b. 5 Apr 1837, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 10 Aug 1846, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA  (Age 9 years)   12. William Watt Sherman, Capt,   b. 30 Aug 1839, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 3 Dec 1875, Chicago, Illinois, USA  (Age 36 years)   13. Walter Sherman,   b. 9 Jul 1843, Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA d. 22 Feb 1880, Wilmette, Cook, Illinois, USA  (Age 36 years)
  Person ID	I376001	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2002

  
  

  Father	Major Charles Sherman,   b. 28 Nov 1783, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 20 Mar 1844, Sheffield, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Jennet Taylor,   b. 30 Dec 1794, New York, New York, USA d. 6 Aug 1843, Sheffield, Connecticut, USA (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	20 May 1814	New York, New York, USA
  Family ID	F149405	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sophia Dodgeson,   b. 26 Sep 1819, Leeds, Yorkshire, England d. 15 Jan 1861, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	4 Jul 1843	North Prairie, Waukesha Co, Wisconsin, USA
  Children	+ 1. Jane Elizabeth Sherman,   b. 14 Dec 1844, Genesee, Wisconsin, USA d. 22 Apr 1916, Odel, Illinois, USA (Age 71 years) + 2. Adaline Jannet Sherman,   b. 23 Sep 1848, Trenton, Wisconsin, USA d. Yes, date unknown   3. Charles Edwin Sherman,   b. 16 Feb 1854, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA d. Yes, date unknown   4. Nellie Sherman,   b. 29 May 1858, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA d. 14 Aug 1858, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F149379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2002

  
  

  Family 2	Julia Florence Aldrich,   b. 27 Dec 1841, Enfield, Grafton Co, New Hampshire, USA d. 20 Apr 1896, Wilmette, Cook, Illinois, USA (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1862	Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA
  Children	+ 1. John Beveridge Sherman,   b. 23 Mar 1863, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA d. 5 May 1908, Lemon City, Dade Co, Florida, USA (Age 45 years) + 2. Milton Aldrich (Andrew) Sherman,   b. 13 Jul 1868, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA d. Yes, date unknown   3. Hollybird Sherman,   b. 15 Jun 1870, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA d. 15 Jun 1870, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Age 0 years)   4. Harry Aldrich Sherman,   b. 1 Aug 1880, Willmette, Cook Co, Illinois, USA d. 16 Feb 1882, Willmette, Illinois, USA (Age 1 year)
  Family ID	F149380	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2002

  
  

• Notes

  Note from J.V. Richards his great-grandson) Li ved with his Daughter in Moline Ill. in his later years and died there when I was 12 (J.V. Richards - ) So I knew Him well He was the one who lost a leg i n a boiler explosion on a coastwise steamer in Calafornia during the Gold rush. He had a wooden leg hinged at the knee. He wore a shoe on the wooden leg and p ulled his pants on over it so you never noticed he had an artificial leg except when he walked. We kids used to like to imitate the way he walked and make a c licking sound like his knee made when it straighted out. (Letter May 8, 1965) When eighteen or nineteen yrs old he left Suffield Conn and settled at North Prairie, Wisconsin where with his brother Henry he cleared a piece of land. He was married there to Miss Sophia Dodson in 1841. About 1847 he moved to Chicago and in 1849 went to California by way of Cape Horn. (He didn't find any gold) He was a clerk on a steamer in San Francisco Bay when the boiler exploded and h e lost a leg. He would tell his Grandson (James V Richards) "When that boiler e xploded I was blown clean on hundred feet into the air and just as I started do wn I looked way off to the right and sure enough, there was my leg coming down over there. I watched it fall into the bay and then I never saw it again." He came back to Chicago by way of the Isthmus and for some years made his home in Evanston Ill. At the breakout of the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army Si nce he had only one leg he was taken into the secret service and was with McCle llan much of the time (this story may be apocraphal) . He was sent to Richmond to determine the size of Lee's Army and eluded detection by acting as a southe rner who wasn't very smart. He was set to chopping wood and was told by a color ed man that no southerner ever chopped wood that way and that he'd better get o ut and he did so He left the service when McClellan did and entered the depart ment of Springfield, serving until the end of the war. in 1866 He entered the M oney order Dept of Chicago Ill, and stayed there until 1895. His first wife die d in 1860 and he married Julia Aldrich in Jan of 1862 in 1871 they moved to Wil mette where Mrs Sherman died in 1896. he moved to Normal Ill where he lived wi th his Daughter (Jane Elizabeth Sherman) In his last years he was a deacon of t he Congregational Church. Had a house on Greenleaf Ave. (Wilmette?) which was s till standing in 1961 See Sherman Directory Sherman 1974