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 . the riots in western Pennsyl-vania, an office which drew upon him much oppro-brium and was attended with personal danger. In1796 he was one of the commissioners to negotiatethe tre
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 . the riots in western Pennsyl-vania, an office which drew upon him much oppro-brium and was attended with personal danger. In1796 he was one of the commissioners to negotiatethe treaty with the Creek and Cherokee Indians inGeorgia, after which year he withdrew from publiclife. He was the first president of the Philadelphiabank, and also of the Academy of fine arts of thatcity, and was made vice-president of the Agricul-tural society on its reorganization in 1805. He wasa man of singular purity and integrity of character,than whom there was no more devoted laborer inthe cause of American independence. In 1765 hemarried Elizabeth Meredith, a daughter of ReeseMeredith, one of the principal merchants of Phila-delphia, and an early friend of Washington. Withhis father-in-law, and later with a brother-in-law, hecarried on an extensive and profitable mercantilebusiness until 1782, when his public services claimedall his time and energy. He died at Morrisville,Bucks county, Pa., Jan 23, OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, 273 SHERMAN, Elijah B., lawyer, was bom inFairfield, Vt., June 18, 1832, of Anglo-Welsh ances-try, being a son of Elias H. and Clarissa (Wilmarth)Sherman. Until twenty-one years of age he remainedon the ancestral farm, toiling during the summermonths, and in winter attending or teaching in thecommon schools. He fitted for college in Brandonseminary and Burr seminary, Mancliester, and en-tered Middlebury college in 1856, graduating withhonors in 1860. After teaching in South Woodstock ?and Brandon seminary, he enlisted in May, 1863, aprivate in compan
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