Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day the Reinhardt Galleries announced that they had just sold Mr. Sargent's portrait of Princess Demidov to Mrs. Edward D. Libbey, widow of the Toledo glass manufacturer...
Before he was 30, he had left the Army, and the war was over. He edited a Toledo newspaper for a year, and was editorial writer on a Cleveland paper for two years. He then served two terms as Secretary of State of Ohio, and in 1872 at 37 he was elected to Congress, served one term but was denied reelection. Until this time he had been a Republican, but he turned Democrat...
...bought and edited the Toledo Journal for nine years. He was probate Judge of Lucas County for six years. He edited the Canton News-Democrat for ten years...
...again elected to Congress, as a Democrat from Toledo. For 14 years continuously he sat in the House of Representatives. But in the Harding landslide of 1920 he was defeated. In 1921 at the ripe age of 86 he left the halls of Congress. But he was not done. Eighteen months later, campaigning with pristine vigor of mind, he won his way back, reelected. He sat for two years more, and a year ago decided that he had had enough. Last February he made his farewell address to the House...
Died. General Isaac R. Sherwood, 90, U. S. Congressman for 18 years; in Toledo, of pernicious anaemia. (See Page 6, THE CONGRESS...