James Rockwell Sheffield
(Library of Congress)
Born: August 13, 1864
Died: September 2, 1938
Married: Edith Tod
Children: Frederick Sheffield
James Rockwell Sheffield kept Camp Iroquois on Upper Saranac Lake from at least 1912 to 1938, when he died there. He was president of the Union League Club in New York in 1922. During the Calvin Coolidge administration, Sheffield was Ambassador to Mexico.
He employed William E. Ring as a guide from about 1905 until Ring's death in 1925.
Plattsburgh Daily Press, September 3, 1938
FORMER AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO DIES NEW YORK
Sept. 2. AP -- James Rockwell Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico from 1924 to 1927, died today at Camp Iroquois, Saranac Inn, N.Y., friends here were informed.
A former close associate of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Elihu Root, Sheffield spent much of his life in public service.
He was elected to the legislature in 1894, was city fire commissioner from 1895 to 1898, and delegate to the Republican National conventions of 1916, 1920, 1924 and 1936. He was special ambassador to Venezuela in 1930. He leaves his widow, the former Edith Tod of Cleveland, and a son Frederick, who was with him when he died. The funeral will be at the Saranac Inn tomorrow morning, with burial in Utica.
