Batcheller
GEORGE SHERMAN, an American jurist, born in Batchellerville, N. Y., July 25, 1837. He was graduated at Harvard University; was admitted to the bar in 1858; entered the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War; was taken prisoner prisoner at Harper's Ferry, and exchanged in 186 1863; was then hen appointed Deputy Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of the South; and, in 1865-1870, was Inspector-General on the staff of Governor Fenton of New York. In 1858, 1872, and 1873 he was elected to the State Assembly; and, in 1875, was appointed one of the judges of the newly organized Supreme Court of Egypt for a term of five years. In 1883 he became President of the International Tribunal of Egypt; in 1889, Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury; in 1890, United States Minister-Resident, and Consul-General to Portugal; and in 1897, again a member of the International Tribunal of Egypt. In the last year he received from King Humbert the decoration of the great cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy, in recognition of his services as President of the Universal Postal Congress which met in Washington in May, 1897. He died July 2, 1908.