Sharon, William – Shaw, C. Austin
Sharon, William
United States senator, was born Jan. 9, 1821, in Smithfield, Ohio. On removing to Nevada he became largely interested in mining operations; the only public position of a political character he ever accepted was that of a senator in congress from Nevada, to which he was elected for the term beginning in 1875 and ending in 1881.
He was largely interested in the financial affairs of the Pacific slope, and was trustee of the Bank of California. He died. Nov. 13, 1885, in Smithfield, Ohio.
Sharp, John T
farmer, merchant, state senator, was born in 1852. He was mayor of Elm City, N. C., for three years, and in 1897 was elected a state senator.
Sharp, Kate D
poet. She is a writer of London, Ohio, and the author of a volume of poems entitled Eleanor's Courtship.
Sharp, Robert
educator, author, was born Oct. 24, 1852, in Lawrenceville, Va. Since 1880 he has been professor of Greek and English in the Tulane university of New Orleans, La. He is the author of A Treatise on the Use of the Infinitive in Herodotus; and various other works.
Sharp, Solomon P
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1780 in Virginia. He served a number of years in the Kentucky state legislature, and was attorney-general of the state. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1817. He fell by the hand of an assassin, while a member of the legislature, in November, 1835.
Sharp, Solomon Z
college president, author, was born Dec. 21, 1835, in Allenville, Pa. He has been state geologist of Kansas, and is now the president of McPherson college of that state. He is the author of a work entitled History of the Brethren.
Sharpe, George Henry
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1828, in Kingston, N. Y. He served upon the staffs of Generals Hooker, Meade and Grant, and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1864, and major-general in 1865. In 1870-73 he was United States marshal for the southern district of New York, and took the census that demonstrated the great election frauds of 1868 in New York city, which led to the enforcement of the federal election law for the first time in 1871. He was surveyor of customs for New York from 1873 till 1878. He was a member of the assembly in 1879-83, and in 1880-81 was the speaker.
Sharpe, Horatio
governor. In 1753 he was elected proprietary governor of Maryland, serving until 1769.
Sharpe, Peter
state legislator, congressman. He was a representative in the New York legislature from 1814 to 1820.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1821 to 1823, and in 1827 was a member of the tariff convention.
Sharpe, William
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1742, in Cecil county, Md. He was a delegate to the provincial congress in 1775 and 1776; was aide-de-camp to General Rutherford in the Indian campaign of 1776, and was one of the commissioners who made a treaty with them in 1777. He was a representative from North Carolina to the continental congress from 1779 to 1782.
He died in July, 1818, in Iredell county, N. C.
SHARPE,
Sharpe, William Hamilton
orange grower, legislator, was born May 5, 1836, in Lowndes county, Ga. In 1866 he was a delegate to the reconstruction convention; was a member of the state 1 senate of Florida during 1878-86; and was a delegate to the interstate agricultural convention at Atlanta, Ga. For many years he has been chairman of the board of county commissioners of Brevard county, Fla.; is a successful orange grower of Sharpes, Indian River, Fla.; and the president of the Orange Growers' association of Indian River, at City Point, Fla.
Sharps, Christian
inventor, was born in 1811 in New Jersey. His principal invention was the Sharps breechloading rifle, and in 1854 he removed to Hartford, Conn., to superintend the manufacture of this rifle. He died March 13, 1874, in Vernon, Conn.
Sharswood, George
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 7, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an eminent Philadelphia jurist, and the author of Professional Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common Law; Lectures on Commercial Law; and Sharswood's Blackstone. He died May 28, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Sharswood, William
author, was born in 1836 in Philadelphia. He has published Studia Physica, a series of monographs; Elenore, a Drama; and The Miscellaneous Writings of William Sharswood.
Shattuc, William B
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born June 11, 1841, in North Hector, N. Y. He was a commissioned officer in the union army during the rebellion, in the army of the frontier. For thirty years previous to 1895 he was an officer in the railway traffic service, and is now retired from business. He lives in Madisonville, Ohio. In 1895 he was elected one of the state senators from Hamilton county to the seventy-second general assembly, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Shattuck, Aaron Draper
artist, inventor, was born March 9, 1832, in Francestown, N. H. The first picture that he exhibited at the academy was a Study of Grasses and Flowers. The following year he was elected an associate, and he became an academician in 1861. In 1867 he held the post of recording secretary.
He invented in 1883-85 a stretcher-frame with keys, a great improvement on the old methods of tightening canvases.
Shattuck, George Cheyne
physician, author, was born July 17, 1783, in Templeton, Mass. He contributed largely to Dartmouth college, and built its observatory, which he furnished with valuable instruments. Shattuck school, at Faribault, Minn., a collegiate boarding-school under the auspices of the protestant episcopal church, of which Dr. Shattuck was a liberal patron, was named for him. He published two Boylston prize dissertations, entitled Structure and Physiology of the Skin; and Causes of Biliary Secretions; and Yellow Fever of Gibraltar in 1828. He died March 18, 1854, in Boston, Mass.
Shattuck, Mrs. Harriette
(RO- BINSON), author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Malden, Mass., who has published The Story of Dante's Divine Comedy; Little Folks East and West; and Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law.
Shattuck, Joseph Cummings
educator, legislator, was born Feb. 28, 1835, in Marlborough, N. H. For three terms he was superintendent of public instruction of Colorado; was professor of pedagogics and dean of the faculty of the university of Denver for three years; of which institution he is now the financial agent. He has served as a member of the Colorado state legislature.
Shattuck, Lemuel
state legislator, author, was born Oct. 15, 1793, in Ashby, Mass. He was for several years a representative in the legislature. In 1844 he was one of the founders of the New England Historic-Genealogical society, and he was its vice-president for five years.
He published History of Concord, Mass.; Vital Statistics of Boston; The Census of Boston; Report on the Sanitary Condition of Massachusetts; and Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck. He died Jan. 17, 1859, in Boston, Mass.
Shattuck, Walter Wheelock
lawyer, was born July 1, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has been justice of the peace, and filled various other public positions of trust in Missouri. Soon after 1880 he moved to California; was editor of a paper for ten years; and has attained prominence as an able lawyer in that state at Kiswich. He is also prominent in the I. O. O. F., and other fraternal orders.
Shaver, George Frederick
inventor, was born Nov. 4, 1855, in Ripley, N. Y. He has recently been engaged in the introduction of his improved mechanical telephone, was president of the Consolidated Telephone company in 1883-86, and since 1887 has been vice-president and general manager of the Shaver corporation, which has charge of that and other of his inventions.
Shaver, Leonidas
lawyer, jurist, was an early emigrant to Utah, and in 1853 was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Shaw, Aaron
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1811 in Orange county, N. Y. He served several terms in the state legislature. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-fifth congress, and served one term; was then elected circuit judge, and served six years. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyeighth congress as a republican.
Shaw, Albert
journalist, author, was born July 23, 1857, in New London, Ohio. He is a journalist of New York city, and the American editor of The Review of Reviews from 1891. He is the author of Icaria, a Chapter in the History of Communism; Local Government in Illinois; Co-operation in a Western City; Municipal Government in Great Britain; and Municipal Government in Continental Europe.
Shaw, Albert Duane
soldier, state legislator, was born Dec. 27, 1841, in Lyme, N. Y. He served in the thirty-fifth New York regiment in 1861-63, and was elected to the legislature in 1867. He was appointed United States consul at Toronto, Canada, in 1868, and in 1878 promoted to Manchester, England, where he served till 1885.
Shaw, Annie Cornelia
artist, was born Sept. 16, 1852, in West Troy, N. Y.
She is a well-known artist of Chicago, Ill.
Shaw, C. Austin
artist, writer, was born Oct. 24, 1840, in West Milton, Ohio.
He was a successful landscape painter, in Providence, R. I., and afterward edited a magazine entitled Language and Thought. In 1871 he entered the signal service, and held positions in Minnesota, Dakota, Madison, Wis., and Erie, Pa. In 1887 he retired from public service and devoted his time entirely to literature; and was the author of a number of meritorious essays, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.