Richard U. Sherman

• Editor, Oswego Daily Times & The Herkimer Journal
• Owner/editor of Rochester Daily Evening Gazette
• Co-owner/editor Utica Morning Herald
• Brigadier general, New York State militia
• Clerk of the New York State Assembly, from January 7, 1851, to January 6, 1857
• Member of the New York State Assembly in 1857, 1875 and 1876
• a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68
• Assistant clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
• Secretary, New York State Fish and Game Commission
• Trustee, New Hartford Cotton Company - he restocked the lakes of the Adirondack Mountains area with fish; also protected the forests from unscrupulous lumber dealers

Marriage

• Richard W., a civil engineer and two-term Mayor of the City of Utica, New York
• Stalham W., Superintendent and Treasurer of New Hartford Canning Co., who died in 1894
• Mary Louise, wife of Henry J. Cookinham
• James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States
• Sanford F., Owner of S. F. Sherman, Men’s Furnishings, a very prominent house devoted to the sale of that class of goods for men’s wear popularly known as men’s furnishings, which he established in 1878.
• Willet H., who died in New Hartford in 1868, aged six.