Hoyt Sherman

Hoyt Sherman (November 21, 1827 – January 25, 1904), a member of the prominent Sherman family, was an American banker. He served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in 1866. Early life Hoyt Sherman was born in 1827 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was the youngest of eleven children born to Mary Sherman (1787–1852) and Charles R. Sherman, a lawyer who was a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court, who died unexpectedly of typhoid fever in 1829. Among his siblings were U.S. Federal Judge Charles Taylor Sherman, U.S. Senator John Sherman, and Major General William T. Sherman. Until eighteen years of age, Hoyt's time was divided between school and the printing office as he apprenticed under his brothers Charles and John in Mansfield, Ohio. In the spring of 1848 he came to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, then far out on the western frontier. Career