Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate – Sharkey, William Lewis
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
geologist, educator, author, was born Feb. 22, 1841, in Newport, Ky. He is an eminent geologist, professor of paleontology at Harvard university in 1868-87, and of geology from 1887. He is the author of Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a Pioneer Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and Its Importance to the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of Our Continent; Illustrations of the Earth's Surface: Glaciers (with W. M. Davis); The United States of America: a study of the American Commonwealth; First Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea and Land: Features of Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the Ohio Valley; American Highways; and Domesticated Animals: Their Relation to Man.
Shallenberger, William S
soldier, merchant, legislator, was born Nov. 24, 1839, in Mt. Pleasant, Pa. He received his education in the Mt. Pleasant academy and the Bucknell university. During the war he served with distinction as adjutant in the one hundred and fortieth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and subsequently until 1876 He was was a elected representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. successful merchant. a as a Since 1883 he has been in the banking business; and has been treasurer of various corporations; and was appointed by Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania as a member of the Lake Erie and Ohio river ship canal. He was a director of the chamber of commerce of Pittsburg; vice-president of the National Association of Manufacturers for Pennsylvania for the first years and president of the Pennsylvania Baptist Mission society for several years.
Shanahan, Jeremiah Francis
bishop, was born July 17, 1834, in Silver Lake, Pa. He became an eminent bishop of the Roman catholic church in Pennsylvania. He died Sept. 24, 1886, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Shanklin, Charles S
journalist, was born Sept. 2, 1857, in Linn county, Iowa. He attended the Cornell college of Mount Vernon, Iowa. He is a member of the Iowa bar, being admitted at the age of twenty years. For four years he was editor and proprietor of the Springville New Era; for two years of the Cedar Rapids Standard; is now the editor and owner of The Saturday Argus of Marion, Iowa; and also editor of the political pages of the Marion Sentinel.
Shanklin, George S
congressman.
He was a presidential elector in 1864, and was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress.
Shanklin, John H
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 2, 1824, in Monroe county, W. Va. For many years he was engaged in educational work; judge of Grundy county, and since 1851 has practiced law Trenton, Mo. He served in the Mexican war; and in 1861 commissioned was division in inspector, with the rank of colonel. He served in the twenty-third regiment Missouri volunteer infantry; subsequently mustered in two battalions of Missouri militia, and in 1862 helped to organize the third regiment Missouri state militia. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel; and subsequently organized the thirtieth regiment enrolled militia of Missouri; and was commissioned as colonel of the same. He was a member of the constitutional convention which framed the existing constitution of Missouri. In 1869-71 he was president of the Chillicothe and Des Moines City Railroad company. He is president of the Grundy County Coal company; president of the Trenton Handle Manufacturing company; and for many years was president of the Trenton Gas and Electric Light company.
Shanks, John P. C
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 17, 1826, in Martinsburg, Va. He was elected to the Indiana legislature in 1853 and 1854; and in 1860 was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirtyseventh congress. He visited the field of Bull Run in July, 1861, as a spectator, but became a participant. He was a delegate to the Pittsburgh soldiers' convention of 1866; and again elected to the fortieth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses as a republican. In 1875 he was appointed an Indian agent.
SHANKS, FRANKLIN WILLIAM GORE, journalist, was born April 20, 1837, in Shelbyville, Ky. He is a journalist of New York city, and the author of Recollections of Distinguished Generals; and A Noble Treason, a tragedy.
Shanly, Charles Dawson
journalist, author, poet, was born in 1811 in Ireland. He was a journalist and versewriter of New York city. The Walker in the Snow is his best-known poem. He was the author of A Jolly Bear and His Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; and The Truant Chicken. He died in 1875.
Shannon, John Primrose
lawyer, was born Aug. 4, 1850, in Augusta, Ga.
He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south, and is prominent in the public affairs of Georgia at Elberton. In 1892 he was a democratic elector, and during 1894- 96 was grand master of the Masons of Georgia.
Shannon, Richard Cutts
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1839, in New London, Conn. He was educated at the public schools and at Colby university, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1862. He enlisted as a private in company H, fifth Maine volunteers in 1861, and was promoted to second sergeant, and in 1861 commissioned first lieutenant of the same company.
In 1862 he was commissioned captain and assistant adjutantgeneral of volunteers, serving continuously till the end of the war, receiving the brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. In 1871 he was appointed by President Grant secretary of the United States legation at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and served until 1875, when he resigned.
In 1876 he took charge of the Botanical Garden Railroad company, an American enterprise in Brazil, of which he subsequently became the vice-president and general manager, and finally the president. In 1891 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republics of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, and served until 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican.
Shannon, Robert Thomas
lawyer, author, was born May 5, 1860, in Perry county, Tenn. He received his education at the Cloverdale seminary, Vanderbilt university, and the Cumberland university. He is a prominent lawyer of Nashville, Tenn., and the author of The Code of Tennessee, Annotated; A Code Supplement; and is the editor of the fifth edition of the Tennessee Form Book.
Shannon, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio in 1826 and 1827.
SHANNON, THOMAS B., merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1827 in Westmoreland county, Pa. From 1854 to 1861 he was engaged in merchandising in California. He served four sessions in the California legislature, and in 1863 was elected a representative from California to the thirty-eighth congress.
Shannon, Wilson
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 24, 1802, in Belmont county, Ohio. In 1835 he was prosecuting attorney for the state of Ohio; was elected governor of Ohio in 1837, and again in 1842, and in 1844 was appointed United States minister to Mexico. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855, and in 1855 was appointed governor of the territory of Kansas. He died Aug. 31, 1877, in Lawrence, Kan.
Shapleigh, Frank Henry
artist, was born March 7, 1842, in Boston, Mass.
He has spent his professional life in his native city. His paintings include Venice; Yosemite Valley; Mirror Lake; Cathedral Rocks; Mount Washington; Cohasset Harbor; Northern Peaks; and The White Mountains.
Shapley, Rufus Edmonds
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 4, 1840, in Carlisle, Pa. He is the author of The Library of Wit and Humor; and The Overcrowding of the Learned Professions.
Sharkey, Emma Augusta
journalist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1858, in Rochester, N. Y. She is a successful journalist and story writer; and is the author of nearly a hundred serial stories and novels, and over one thousand sketches; besides numerous poems. Her writings generally appear under the nom de plume of E. Burke Collins. Her novels chiefly represent life in the south, more especially the pine woods of Louisiana, her hitherto and also untrodden field of literature. In 1884 she married Robert R. Sharkey, a Mississippi cotton planter.
Sharkey, William Lewis
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1797 in Mussel Shoals, Tenn. He was presiding judge of the high court of errors in Mississippi, and was provisional governor of Mississippi in 1865 and 1866. He was one of the foremost lawyers and jurists of his time; delegate to all the leading political conventions; and active in all affairs public which tended to the was a benefit of the state of Mississippi. He died April 29, 1873, in Washington, D. C.