Richard Updike Sherman

Richard Updike Sherman (1819–1895) was a New York State politician and newspaper publisher and editor. He was also the father of US Vice President James S. Sherman.

Richard Sherman was:

• Editor, Oswego Daily Times & The Herkimer Journal (1844–46)
• Owner/editor of Rochester Daily Evening Gazette (1847)
• Co-owner/editor Utica Morning Herald (1847–82)
• Brigadier general, New York State militia (1841–57)
• Clerk of the New York State Assembly, from January 7, 1851, to January 6, 1857 (Whig, later Republican)
• Member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co., 1st D.) in 1857 (as a Republican), 1875 and 1876 (both as a Democrat)
• a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68
• Assistant clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (1870)
• Secretary, New York State Fish and Game Commission (1879–1890)
• Trustee, New Hartford Cotton Company - he restocked the lakes of the Adirondack Mountains area with fish; also protected the forests from unscrupulous lumber dealers

President, New Hartford Canning Company, established in 1880.

Marriage

He married his distant cousin Mary Frances Sherman. They had six children:

• 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 (a law partner of James Schoolcraft Sherman)
• 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.