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Sherman (FRANK DEMPSTER an American)

FRANK DEMPSTER, an American poet; born in Peekskill, N. Y., May 6, 1860. Educated at Columbia College and Harvard University, he became adjunct professor in the Columbia School of Architecture. He published: "Madrigals and Catches"; "Lyrics for a Lute"; and, with John Kendrick Bangs, "New Waggings of Old Tales"; "Little Folk Lyrics"; "Lyrics of Joy" (1904); "A Southern Flight" (with Clinton Scollard, 1906); and "Complete Poems" (1918). He died in 1916.

SHERMAN for the prosecution of the Civil War; defended the protective tariff, the restoration of specie payments, and the refunding of the National debt. He was a member of the committee that visited Louisiana to supervise the counting of the returns of that State, and a member of JOHN SHERMAN