1823 — John Sherman was born.

The evidence

• “Notably the two Shermans. John, born in 1823, was the lawyer. I think he mich for he was elected to Congress when at the age of thirty-five years.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/11-reflections-and-conclusion.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources