Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — Miss Ella Sherman. [ARTICLE]

Miss Ella Sherman.

From the Boston Herald. The engagement of Ella Sherman, the General’s favorite daughter, to Lieutenant A. M. Thackara, of the army, has lately become known. It is hardly “good form” to speak of a young lady as distinguished for her smartness, and yet if I were to say thtft Miss Sherman is the smartest young lady in Washington I should convey a correct notion about her to the minds of most of your readers. She is the life of the Sherman household, and is noted for her vivacity in social circles. Her father withdrew her education, and, I believe, thinks her quite a good enough Catholic, although she is far from being inclined to be a devotee. Miss Sherman is rather noted in army circles for her skill and endurance as a horsewomen. There is a good story told by some young officers of an experience last spring, when a party was made up at the instance of Ella Sherman to go on horseback to the Great Falls of the Potomac. The distance is sixteen miles, making, with a return trip,thirty-two miles—a rather long ride for those who are not used to the saddle. The young officers could not refuse her in vital ion but bitterly did they rue it; at last several of them did, for they were so used up by the trip that they had to keep in their rooms for three days, and one of them had to have a doctor! Their tormentor, however, rode back without and in the gayest of spirits, and the sport which was made over the masculine weaklings who could not endure as much was kept up for days. The young officers did the best they could to conceal their used up condition, but it was of no use, for their assurances of having enjoyed the trip, and the doctor’s bill was a sad addition to the expense account of the trip,