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., who died in 1894
- Mary Louise, wife of Henry J. Cookinham (a law partner of James Schoolcraft Sherman)
- James Schoolcraft Sherman, US Vice President
- Sanford F., President, New Hartford Canning Company
- Willet H., who died in New Hartford in 1868, aged six.
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