* Austin College, Sherman, Texas

* General W. T. Sherman as College President: A Collection of Letters, Documents, and Other Material, Chiefly from Private Sources, Relating to the Life and Activities of General William Tecumseh Sherman, to the Early Years of Louisiana State University, and the Stirring Conditions Existing in the South on the Eve of the Civil War ( posthumous, 1912 )

The capital of Texas, Austin in Travis County, Austin County, Austin Bayou, Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Austin College in Sherman, and a number of K-12 schools are named in his honor.

In 1876, Austin College, the oldest continuously operating college in Texas, relocated from Huntsville to Sherman.

Sherman Female Institute, later known as Mary Nash College,

Austin College a private, Presbyterian, liberal arts college relocated to Sherman in 1876.

Grayson County College, based in neighboring Denison, operates a branch campus in Sherman.

" Moshe D. Sherman, an associate professor at Touro College wrote that " as Schneerson's empire grew, a personality cult developed around him ... portraits of Rabbi Schneerson were placed in all Lubavitch homes, shops, and synagogues, and devoted followers routinely requested a blessing from him prior to their marriage, following an illness, or at other times of need.

A son, Roger Sherman, Jr. ( 1768 – 1856 ), a 1787 graduate of Yale College served in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1810 – 1811.

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* On May 21, 2011, the Sherman Brothers were each awarded honorary doctorate degrees in Fine Arts from their alma mater, Bard College.

* Harvard College, Philo Sherman Bennett Thesis Prize, 1982

Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated by covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) and located in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles ( about 100 km ) North of Dallas.

The college moved to Sherman in 1876 and became co-educational in 1918, merging in 1930 with the all female Texas Presbyterian College.

The school also has a music program, and is home to the Austin College A Cappella Choir and the Sherman Symphony Orchestra made up of students and local musicians, and assorted smaller musical ensembles.

The site where Sam Houston State University now sits was originally home to Austin College, the Presbyterian institution that relocated to Sherman, Texas in 1876.

* The Papers of Sherman Adams in the Dartmouth College Library

Sherman attended Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California.

He expanded its reach to include Sherman College, Wofford College, and individual seminars from coast to coast.

* David Sherman ( East Tennessee College ), 1820 – 1825

In this class-action lawsuit on behalf of members of the College Football Association, the two schools alleged that the NCAA's contracts with ABC, NBC, and CBS violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by preventing each college and conference from selling its product on the open market.

Vernon is probably best remembered for his role as the deadly serious Dean Vernon Wormer of mythical Faber College in 1978's enduring cult classic, Animal House ( a role that he would reprise in the short-lived television sequel Delta House ), as well as the equally evil Mr. Prindle in the Disney film Herbie Goes Bananas and Sherman Krader in Ernest Goes to Camp.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

He was probably the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office, On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack that required six weeks ' hospitalization, during which time Nixon, Dulles and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President.

* 1855 – James S. Sherman, American politician & 27th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1912 )

General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln initially opposed the plan until Sherman convinced them of its necessity.

Grant gave the Department of the Mississippi to Maj. Gen. Sherman, and went east to Washington, DC, to make and implement a strategy with President Lincoln to decisively win the Civil War in 1864, when Lincoln was facing re-election.

During the siege, Sherman was able to take Atlanta, a victory that advanced President Lincoln's reelection.

Grant discussed the matter with Sherman and initially convinced him to avoid the politically troubled President.

During this time, Warner Bros. President Harry Warner and six other movie studio figures were indicted of conspiracy to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, through an attempt to gain a monopoly over theaters in the St Louis area.

Image of President Woodrow Wilson created by 21, 000 soldiers at Camp Sherman, Ohio | Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio

** James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1855 )

* February 18 – U. S. President Roosevelt prosecutes the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Act.

However, at the outset of the Republican convention, a deadlock ensued between supporters of former President Grant, James G. Blaine, and Sherman ; the delegates began to look to Garfield as an optimal compromise choice.

After being ratified in the Senate on April 8, 1890 by a vote of 51-1, the Sherman Act passed unanimously ( 242-0 ) in the House of Representatives on June 20, 1890, and was then signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on July 2, 1890.

In 1877, newly elected President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Sherman Secretary of the Treasury.

In 1850, Sherman was promoted to the substantive rank of Captain and married Thomas Ewing's daughter, Eleanor Boyle (" Ellen ") Ewing, in a Washington ceremony attended by President Zachary Taylor and other political luminaries.

In 1874, with Sherman having become world famous, their eldest child, Marie Ewing (" Minnie ") Sherman, also had a politically prominent wedding, attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and commemorated by a generous gift from the Khedive of Egypt.

Colonel Joseph P. Taylor, the brother of the late President Zachary Taylor, declared that " if you had hunted the whole army, from one end of it to the other, you could not have found a man in it more admirably suited for the position in every respect than Sherman.

President Lincoln, however, was impressed by Sherman while visiting the troops on July 23 and promoted him to brigadier general of volunteers ( effective May 17, 1861, with seniority in rank to Ulysses S. Grant, his future commander ).

Following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the assassination of President Lincoln, Sherman met with Johnston at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, to negotiate a Confederate surrender.

At the insistence of Johnston and of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Sherman conditionally agreed to generous terms that dealt with both political and military issues.

Sherman thought that those terms were consistent with the views Lincoln had expressed at City Point, but the general had not been given the authority, by General Grant, the newly installed President Andrew Johnson, or the Cabinet, to offer those terms.

In this general connection, it is also noteworthy that Sherman and his subordinates ( particularly John A. Logan ) took steps to protect Raleigh, North Carolina, from acts of revenge after the assassination of President Lincoln.