Shepard, George Bohan – Sheppard, Nathan
Shepard, George Bohan
lawyer, inventor, was born Sept. 23, 1847, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. He received his rudimentary education in the public schools of that city, and the higher branches at private institutions there. In 1862 he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1869; and since that time he has never discontinued practice, though his other undertakings have interfered with active litigation. From 1873 he served two terms as clerk of surrogate's court of St. Lawrence county, and on Dec. 17, 1879, was appointed United States deputy collector of internal revenue for St. Lawrence and Franklin counties, serving as such until the office was filled by the incoming of the democratic administration. He introduced the electric telephone in his native county, building several local exchanges and the connecting county lines. He inherits a natural taste for mechanics, and is a direct lineal descendant from Hezekiah Huntington of Windham, Conn., who manufactured the first guns made in America, and who was appointed by Gen. Washington repairer of arms for the continental army.
He also numbers among his ancestors Gov. Bradford of Plymouth colony. Mr.
Shepard has made a number of useful inventions, including early improvements in the typewriter and copygraph; and he has recently perfected a successful rotary engine. He is at present engaged upon an improved machine to furnish stereotype plates for printing, which promises a revolution in that art; and still resides in the place of his nativity.
Shepard, Irwin
soldier, educator, college president, was born July 5, 1843, in Skaneateles, N. Y. He served three years during the civil war in the ninth army corps. Since 1879 he has been president of the state normal school of Winona, Minn.
Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald
soldier, author, was born July 7, 1816, in Natick, Mass. He was a federal officer in the civil war who was consul at Swatow and Hankow in 1874-80; and the author of Pebbles from Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; and Household Tales. He died in 1889.
Shepard, Lillie R
poet. She is a writer of Melrose, Mass.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rays of Light.
Shepard, Sidney
manufacturer, capitalist, was born Sept. 28, 1814, in Coblesville, N. Y. In 1849 he became the proprietor of the Shepard Iron works; which institution also became one of the largest importers of tinplate, manufacturers of stamp metalware, and dealers in hardware and tinners' supplies in the United States. He was prominent in railroad affairs, and for many years a director in the Alabama Central, the Mobile and Ohio, and the New Jersey Central railroaus. He steadfastly declined the candidacy for various important public offices. In 1885 he transferred his interest in the Shepard Iron works to his son, C. Sidney Shepard of New Haven, N. Y.
Shepard, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 5, 1605, in England. He was a puritan clergyman who came to America in 1635, and from 1636 until his death was minister of what is now the Shepard church in Cambridge. He was the author of New England's Lamentations for Old England's Present Errours; The Sound Beleever; The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticæ; Subjection to Christ; The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied; and Autobiography. His Sermons, with Memoir by Alger, were printed in three volumes in 1853. He died Aug. 25, 1649, in cambridge, Mass.
Shepard, William
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1737, near Boston, Mass. In 1780 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general under General Lafayette; and after the war was a brigadier-general of militia. In 1785 and 1786 he was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature; in the latter year was appointed a major-general, and in the same year was summoned from his farm to assume command of the national forces at Springfield, Mass., on the outbreak of the Shay rebellion. He was a presidential elector in 1788 and 1792; was a member of the state executive council from 1792 to 1796; and was a representative from Massachusetts to the national congress from 1793 to 1803. He died Nov. 11, 1817, in Westfield, Mass.
Shepard, William B
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1799 in Newberne, N. C. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1827 to 1837, when he declined a re-election. In 1838 he was elected to the state senate, where he served five terms. He died June 20, 1852, in Elizabeth City, N. J.
Shepherd, Alexander B
soldier, governor, was born Jan. 31, 1835, in Washington, D. C. In 1873 he was appointed the second governor of the District of Columbia; and remained in office until the form of government was again changed.
Shepherd, Frank
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Jan. 28, 1853, in Lenawee county, Mich. Since 1879 he has practiced law in Cheboygan, Mich. In 1880-82 he was prosecuting attorney; was appointed judge of probate in 1886; and elected to the same office in 1888. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature.
Shepherd, James Edward
lawyer, educator, was born in July, 1847, in Nausemond county, Va. In 1882 he was elected judge of the superior court from Raleigh, N. C.; and during 1888-95 was a justice of the supreme court, last two years of which he served as chief justice.
Shepherd, James Osgood
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born in Palmyra, Va. He was a graduate of the university of Virginia; engaged in educational work, and became county superintendent of schools. He is now an able lawyer of Virginia at Buena Vista; has been judge of the corporation court of Roanoke; judge of Hustings court, Buena Vista. and
Shepherd, Nathaniel Graham
author, was born in 1835 in New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he became a war correspondent for the New York Tribune. He contributed largely to periodicals and journals; and was the author of The Dead Drummer-Boy; The Roll-Call; and A Summer Reminiscence. He died May 23, 1869, in New York city.
Shepherd, Oliver Lathrop
soldier, was born Aug. 15, 1815, in Clifton, Pa. He served in the Florida, Mexican and civil wars, and in 1863 was brevetted brigadier-general. In 1870 he was retired from the army.
Shepherd, William
soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1737, in Massachusetts. In 1.783 he was chosen a brigadier-general, having fought in twenty-two battles; and was subsequently a majorgeneral of militia. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1797 to 1803. He died Nov. 11, 1817, in Westfield, Mass.
Shepherd, William Robert
author. He is the author of History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania.
Shepley, Ether
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, was born Nov. 2, 1789, in Groton, Mass.
He was in the Massachusetts legislature in 1819; was a member of the convention that framed the first constitution of Maine in 1820; and was for thirteen years attorney of the United States for Maine. He was a senator in congress from Maine from 1833 to 1836. After leaving the senate of the United States he was chosen a justice of the supreme court of Maine, and subsequently chief justice of the same, which latter position he held until 1855. He died Jan. 15, 1877, in Portland, Maine.
Shepley, George Forster
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Jan. 1, 1819, in Saco, Maine. He removed to Portland, Maine; was appointed by President Polk United States district attorney, which position he held until 1861. When the civil war broke out he became colonel of the twelfth Maine volunteers.
He was made brigadier-general; and was military governor of Louisiana from 1862 to 1864. He was military governor of Richmond on its surrender in 1865. 1871 he was United States circuit judge of the first circuit. He died July 20, 1878, in Portland, Maine.
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Sheplor, Matthias
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1837 to 1839.
Sheppard, Francis Marion
physician, legislator, was born Dec. 22, 1868, in Monticello, Miss. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the common schools, he attended the university of Louisville, Ky., graduating therefrom in 1893. He is a successful physician of Waynesboro, Miss.; and in 1896 became a representative in the lower house of the Mississippi state legislature, his term expiring in 1900.
Sheppard, Furman
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 21, 1823, in Bridgeton, N. J.
He is a Philadelphia lawyer who has published The Constitutional Text-Book; and other works.
Sheppard, John Hannibal
lawyer, author, was born March 17, 1789, in England. In addition to several Masonic and antiquarian addresses, he was the author of occasional poems; of Reminiscences of the Vaughan Family; and The Life of Samuel Tucker, Commodore in the American Revolution. He died June 25, 1873, in Boston, Mass.
Sheppard, Nathan
educator, journalist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. He was a journalist and educator who was a special correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette during the Franco-German war; and the author of Shut Up in Paris During the Siege; Darwinism Stated by Himself; Before an Audience; and Saratoga Chips. He died Jan. 24, 1888, in New York city.