GRAHAM, A. A; E. S. Colborn [William Tecumseh Sherman].
History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio: Their Past and Present.
First Edition of A. A. Graham's History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co, 1883.
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First edition of this comprehensive history of Ohio's townships, industries, soldiers, pioneer families, and prominent men; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the front panel, all edges marbled, illustrated with maps, diagrams, and engravings. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown. In good condition, missing the spine, splitting to the hinges, rubbing to the extemities of the front and rear panels, p. 345 to 352 detached. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
"Less than a century since not a white man dwelt in the present lmits of the two counties, the history of which these pages chronicle. Now not an acre is unclaimed, and the eye sees the surface of the land dotted with comfortable homes. The Pioneers, whose lives are dimly portrayed in these pages, are the remote cause of all this; the labor of their children, the immediate cause. The aim of this volume is to preserve the deeds and lives of those who have done all this."
History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio: Their Past and Present.
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