Adrian Fisher Sherman

1872 - 1926  (53 years)

• Name	Adrian Fisher Sherman
  Born	10 Jul 1872	Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Apr 1926	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I10453	Rossville
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Adrian Carnahan Cyrus Sherman,   b. 20 Mar 1846, Mount Pleasant, Delaware County, Indiana ,   d. 8 Jul 1906, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Loucinda Ann Fisher Sherman,   b. 8 Dec 1847, Montgomery County, Indiana ,   d. 7 Mar 1923, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 75 years)
  Married	16 Oct 1866
  Family ID	F1821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances Connell Sherman,   b. 1886,   d. 1963  (Age 77 years)
  Married	Jun 1913
  Children	1. Adrian Sherman, III   2. James Morrell Sherman,   b. 12 Sep 1920, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas ,   d. 24 Feb 1998, Hilo, Hawaii County, Hawaii  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2018 13:12:46
  Family ID	F8000	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Obituary- Sherman, Adrian F. 1 Adrian F. Sherman Adrian F. Sherman, well known attorney, died Tuesday morning at his home, 235 Woodlawn avenue, Topeka. Mr. Sherman had a nervous breakdown about six years ago and since that time had not been engaged in business. The immediate cause of death was a stroke of apoplexy. Adrian F. Sherman was born in Rossville, Kansas, July 10, 1872. His father was Adrian C. Sherman, a Civil war veteran who came to Shawnee county shortly after the war, bought Indian land from the Indians and together with Col. Geo. W. Veale laid out the town of Rossville. Adrian C. Sherman became quite well known locally and among the grain dealers of the state, and was a member of the legislature of 1893. Adrian F. Sherman attended the graded schools of Rossville until 1887 when he entered the preparatory department of the University of Kansas where he continued his studies until 1893, receiving his A.B. degree. After engaging in business for about a year and traveling abroad for several months, he returned to the University of Kansas in 1895 and received his degree of L.L.B. in 1897. While at the university he took an active part in athletics, becoming a member of the foot ball team, base ball team, the track team and tennis squad, earning his letter in each of said branches of athletics. He became a member of the Greek letter fraternity Phi Kappa Psi in 1890. Shortly after graduation he entered the law office of Rossington, Smith and Dallas in Topeka, where he remained until 1900, at which time he became a member of the firm Keeler, Hite & Sherman. In the meantime he became the attorney for the Kansas Grain Dealers' association in the collections of loss and damage to grain claims, in which position he became acquainted with a great many grain dealers and millers throughout the state. [From the Rossville Reporter, April 8, 1926] [continued]
  		Obituary- Sherman, Adrian F. 2 In 1902 he moved to Kansas City, Mo., and opened a law office in the board of trade building, where it was maintained until 1909. He numbered a goodly portion of the members of the board of trade as well as the board of trade itself among his clients and was quite active in the local courts and before the interstate commerce commission in their behalf. In 1910 he became general counsel for the Southwestern Millers' league and in response to the desires of the members of this organization undertook the organization of a reciprocal insurance exchange along in the summer of 1911, to take care of the situation confronting Kansas employers by the workman's compensation act, which was going into effect January 1st, 1912. The organization was perfected by personal calls by him upon employers, and began business under the name of "Kansas Employers' Inter-Insurance Exchange," January 1, 1912, with Adrian F. Sherman as attorney-in-fact. There being no specific law covering such an organization, it was deemed advisable at the 1913 session of the legislature to enact such a law. A bill was introduced, passed the senate 32 to 1, the house 93 to 8, was signed by the governor and the Kansas Employers' Inter-Insurance exchange licensed accordingly, all within a period of three weeks time. Operations were extended to Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Idaho, Ind., Kentucky and various other states, Mr. Sherman personally attending to preliminary organization work, addressing meetings of employers, interviewing individual employers, getting acquainted with members of industrial boards, insurance commissioners, and state officials generally, attending [legislative]
  		Obituary- Sherman, Adrian F. 3 [legislative] sessions and keeping in touch with all legislation affecting labor and insurance. The financing and management of this reciprocal insurance business was accomplished through the organization of several different corporations, among them being the Inter-Insurers Trust Co. of Kansas; and the Inter-Insurers Trust Co., of Delaware. Mr. Sherman was president of each of these organizations, and in 1918 they were all merged in the Inter-Insurers Trust Co., of Delaware. Mr. Sherman married Frances Connell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Connell, June 1913. There are two sons, Adrian jr., 7 years of age, and James Morrell, 5 years. One sister, Mrs. Alice Parr, survives him. Mr. Sherman was a member of the following clubs: University club of Chicago; University club of Kansas City; Kansas City club, Kansas City; Topeka Consistory; Hesperian Lodge No. 111, A.F. & A.M. of Rossville. He became a member of the latter order thirty-two years ago. The funeral will be private, held at the Topeka home today at 2:00 o'clock. A Christian Science service will be held. The pall bearers will include Fred B. Bonebrake, H.L. Armstrong, John Waters of Topeka; Frank P. Edson, M.L. Alden and J.E. McPherson, of Kansas City. The body will be interred in Mount Hope cemetery, Topeka.