[citation needed] He read law in 1833,[1] in the office of Henry Stoddard and under Judge Jacob Parker.

Later he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as one of the commissioners to settle war claims in St. Louis, Missouri.

[1][4] After Sherman retired from practicing law, he became interested in the organization of the agricultural society of Richland County, Ohio, and encouraged the "introduction of better modes for the larger production of better quality of fruits.

[6] Sherman married Eliza Williams of Dayton, Ohio, on February 2, 1841, and they became the parents of seven children: Mary Hoyt, who became the wife of General Nelson A.

Miles, United States Army; Henry Stoddard, who became a Cleveland attorney; John J., who became a United States Marshal in New Mexico; Charles F. Cook who died in infancy; Anna Wallace, who died at the age of 20 in 1870; Eliza A. Williams, who married Colgate Hoyt of Cleveland; and Elizabeth Bancroft, who married James D. Cameron, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania.