Early Years: 1820 - 1860
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February 8, 1820 |
William Tecumseh Sherman born in Lancaster, OH |
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October 4, 1824 |
Ellen Boyle Ewing born in Lancaster, OH. |
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1829 |
Sherman becomes Senator Thomas Ewing’s ward |
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1840 |
Sherman graduates from West Point |
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1848 |
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May 1, 1850 |
Sherman marries Ellen Ewing in her father’s Washington, D.C. home |
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January 18, 1851 |
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March 17, 1852 |
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June 8, 1854 |
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October 12, 1856 |
Born: Thomas Ewing Sherman |
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1859 |
Sherman becomes the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy in Pineville, Louisiana |
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September 5, 1859 |
Civil War Years: 1861 – 1866
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April 12, 1861 |
The Civil War begins |
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July 5, 1861 |
Born: Rachel Ewing Sherman |
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1862 |
Mont enters the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis |
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October 10, 1863 |
Died: William Tecumseh Sherman, Jr.; aged 9 years old |
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March 9, 1864 |
General Ulysses Grant places Sherman in charge of the Union troops in west |
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June 11, 1864 |
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September 2, 1864 |
Sherman’s troops capture Atlanta, Georgia |
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December 4, 1864 |
Died: Charles Celestine Sherman; aged 10 months |
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December 21, 1864 |
Sherman and his troops reach Savannah, Georgia |
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April 15, 1865 |
President Abraham Lincoln dies |
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April 18, 1865 |
Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman, ending the Civil War |
Years of Transition: 1866 – 1874
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July 25, 1866 |
Sherman appointed to Lieutenant General of the Army |
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1867-1868 |
Thomas attending St. Louis University |
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January 9, 1867 |
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1869 |
President Grant appoints Sherman to Commanding General of the United States Army |
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1869 |
Mont graduates from Annapolis |
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1869-1881 |
Mont oversees in Europe, Japan, Java, and Panama |
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1872? |
Wedding: Julia E. Thackara (Mont’s sister) to Dr. W. Penn Buck |
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1872-1873 |
Minnie travels throughout Europe; meets Lieutenant Thomas W. Fitch in London |
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May 29, 1873 |
Wedding: Charles Thackara (Mont’s brother) to Ida McLellan |
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1874 |
Wedding: Maria Ewing Sherman to Thomas W. Fitch |
Stateside Years: 1878 – 1890
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June 1878 |
Thomas Ewing Sherman decides to become a Jesuit priest, causing great distress to his father |
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1879 |
Mont is introduced to Ellie in Washington, D.C. |
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May 5, 1880 |
Wedding: Eleanor Mary Sherman to Alexander Montgomery Thackara |
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1881 |
Mont retires from the Navy and works for his father’s business, Thackara, Sons & Co.; Sherman Thackara family lives in Rosemont, PA for three years (1881 – 1884) |
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January 18, 1881 |
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November 1, 1883 |
Sherman steps down as commanding general |
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February 8, 1884 |
Sherman retires from the army and with Ellen, moves to New York City |
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1886 |
Philemon graduates from St. Louis University |
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1887 |
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1888 |
Philemon graduates from Yale University with a Bachelor of Philosophy |
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November 28, 1888 |
Died: Ellen Ewing Sherman; aged 64 years old |
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July 9, 1889 |
Thomas is ordained a priest in Philadelphia. His father, General Sherman, is noticeably missing from the occasion |
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February 1891 |
Died: General William T. Sherman; aged 71 years old |
Traveling: 1891-1892
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June 1891 |
Ellie travels throughout Canada and writes a newspaper article about her “summer jaunt” |
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December 12, 1891 |
Wedding: Rachel Ewing Sherman to Dr. Paul Thorndike in Washington, D.C. |
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1892 |
Ellie travels throughout Europe |
Living in Europe: 1897-1937
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September 15, 1896 |
Died: Benjamin Thackara of heart failure |
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October 6, 1896 |
Died: Mary A. Thackara |
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1899 |
Philemon graduates from Columbia University with a degree in law |
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1903 |
Philemon starts practicing law in New York City |
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1905-1913 |
Mont is reassigned and serves as Consul General in Berlin |
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1905 |
With Mont’s appointment to Berlin, Ellie in turn receives her own recognition: She is elected President of the American Women’s Club, a position generally offered to an ambassador’s wife |
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1908 |
William Thackara graduates from Harvard |
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1913 |
President Woodrow Wilson appoints Mont to be Consul General in Paris |
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November 22, 1913 |
Died: Maria Ewing Sherman Fitch; aged 62 years old |
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July 1914 |
World War I begins |
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1914-1918 |
William T. Sherman Thackara serves in Naval Intelligence in Argentina |
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1914-1915 |
Ellie works with the Red Cross on the Serbian relief effort |
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April 1915 |
Ellie becomes seriously ill |
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Spring 1915 |
At this time, both Lex and William are abroad- Lex in New York and William in Buenos Aires |
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July 18, 1915 |
Died: Eleanor Mary Sherman Thackara in Paris; aged 55 years old. Around this time, Ellie receives a letter of thanks from the King of Serbia for her efforts with the Red Cross. Mont and their two daughters Eleanor and Elizabeth, are by her side when Ellie passes away |
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August 28, 1915 |
Died: Charles Thackara |
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January 31, 1917 |
Wedding: Eleanor Sherman Thackara to Frederic Cauldwell in Rosemont, PA |
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October 26, 1919 |
Died: Rachel Ewing Sherman Thorndike; aged 58 years old |
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1920 |
Mont given the Croix de Guerre award, but cannot accept it for another 14 years because of his status as a government employee |
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December 27, 1921 |
Died: Alexander (“Lex”) Montgomery Thackara, Jr., in London |
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August 1924 |
Mont retires as the Consul General in Paris and is replaced by Robert P. Skinner |
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April 6, 1925 |
Died: Mary Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Sherman; aged 73 years old |
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April 29, 1933 |
Died: Thomas Ewing Sherman in New Orleans, LA; aged 76 years old |
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October 24, 1934 |
Mont allowed to accept his Croix de Guerre award as a result of a joint house resolution |
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January 19, 1937 |
Died: Alexander Montgomery Thackara or bronchial pneumonia in the American Hospital of Paris, located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; aged 88 years old |
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December 6, 1941 |
Died: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman in New York City of a heart attack; aged 74 years old |
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July 12, 1983 |
Died: William Tecumseh Sherman Thackara in Mystic CT; aged 96 years old |