The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . honorary degree , a recognition prized the more highly be-cause that conservative institution confers the de-gree upon very few of its many distinguished Sherman, n


The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . honorary degree , a recognition prized the more highly be-cause that conservative institution confers the de-gree upon very few of its many distinguished Sherman, not content with being a lawyer anda jurist, has taken delight in scientific research andbelles-lettres. Possessed of a fine literary taste, andbeing master of a style at once incisive, perspicuousand pleasing, his literary productions and public ad-dresses have given him high rank as a litterateur,orator and critic. In 1866 he married Hattie G. Lov-ering, of Iowa Falls, la. His only son, Bernis , following his fathers example, was grad-uated from Middlebury college in 1890, from theUnion college of law, Chicago, in 1893, was imme-diately admitted to the bar, and entered upon thepractice of the law. CABSON, Christopher ( Kit Carson ), hunter and soldier, was boin in Madison county, Ky., Dec. 24,1809. While he was an infant his family removed ^o Howard county. Mo. When he was fifteen he was III.—


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