Shields, Ebenezer J – Shippen, Edward
Shields, Ebenezer J
congressman, was born in Georgia. He was elected a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1835 to 1839. He died May 20, 1846.
Shields, James
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1829 to 1831. He died in 1831 in Butler county, Ohio.
Shields, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, United States senator, was born in 1810 in Ireland. In 1836 he was elected a member of the Illinois legislature; was elected auditor of the state in 1839; and in 1843 was appointed judge of the supreme court of Illinois. In 1845 he was appointed commissioner of the general land office in the department of the interior at Washington. At the commencement of the Mexican war he was appointed brigadiergeneral in the United States army; and was promoted to the rank of brevet major-general. In 1848 he was appointed governor of Oregon territory; and in 1849 was elected to a seat in the United States senate from the state of Illinois for the term of six years. He subsequently took up his residence in the territory of Minnesota; and in 1857 when it became a state, was elected to represent the same in the senate of the United States, in which position he served two years.
He subsequently settled in Missouri; and was elected a United States senator from Missouri in 1879. He died June 1, 1879, in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Shields, John C
lawyer, jurist. In 1885 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of Arizona for the term of four years; resided at Prescott, Ariz.
Shields, John Franklin
educator, was born June 25, 1868, in Chester, Pa. He received his education in the Pennsylvania State college and the university of Pennsylvania. He has attained success in educational work, and is now professor of mathematics in the Adelphi college of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a member of the American Mathematical society; and is mathematical censor for several leading publishers.
Shields, Mary
philanthropist, was born Jan. 12, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa.
She was active in benevolent work, and bequeathed $1,400,000 for charitable pur- She died Oct. 8, 1880, in Philaposes. delphia, Pa.
Shields, Mrs. Sarah Annie
[FROST], author. She is the author of Parlor Charades and Proverbs; Laws and By-Laws of American Society; The Art of Dressing Well; Almost a Woman; and Sunshine for Rainy Days.
Shields, William Bayard
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Mississippi; and in 1818 was appointed district judge of the United States court for the state of Mississippi.
Shiells, Robert
banker, poet, was born Nov. 21, 1825, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is well versed in the Latin classics, and acquired a good knowledge of Latin, French and Greek, and a course in the higher mathematics. He was trained as a mechanical and civil engineer. He took part in the first surveys of the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien railway, which is now known as the Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. As locating and division engineer he remained with the road until its completion to the Mississippi in 1857, and subsequently did government surveying in Wisconsin. He was also two years engaged in railroad work in Ohio. In 1861 he organized the bank of Neenah, which four years later became the National bank of Neenah, of which he is president. He has been president of the city public library since its commencement. He is a member of the American Numismatic and Archæological society, and also is a member of two historical societies. Mr. Shiells is the author of a volume, The Story of the Token as Belonging to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhal- Low
journalist, author, was born July 12, 1814, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humorist, whose latest years were spent in Chelsea, Mass. He was the author of Life and Sayings of Mrs.
Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington's Mother Goose; Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide Swath, a volume of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with Captain Bob; and The Double-Runner Club. He died Nov. 25, 1890, in Chelsea, Mass.
Shimeall, Richard Cunning- Ham
clergyman, author, was born in 1803 in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman who adopted reformed Dutch tenets in 1834, and subsequently became a presbyterian. He was a noted biblical scholar of millenarian views. He was the author of The End of Prelacy; Christ's Second Coming; Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III; Unseen World; and Political Economy of Prophecy. He died March 19, 1874, in New York city.
Shimer, Frances a. Wood
college president, was born Aug. 31, 1826, in Milton, N. Y. She is the founder and president of the Mount Carroll seminary and Conservatory of Music of Mount Carroll, Ill., which institution she founded in 1852.
Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley
BUNCE [PALMER] [DANA], poet, was born Feb. 15, 1810, in Beaufort, S. C.
She was a once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a unitarian, and published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married her second husband, an episcopal clergyman, and was received into his church. She was the author of The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom; and A Southerner Among the Spirits. She died in 1883.
Shine, John W
lawyer, was born April 8, 1864, in Middleton Center, Ontario, Canada. When about a year old his parents moved to Austin Port, Mich.; and he is now one of the foremost lawyers of that state at Sault Ste. Marie; and for two terms has served as its city attorney.
Shinn, Asa
clergyman, author, was born May 3, 1781, in New Jersey. He was a methodist protestant minister in Ohio; and the author of Essay on the Plan of Salvation; and Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being. He died in February, 1853, in Brattleboro, Vt.
Shinn, Charles Howard
author, was born in 1852 in Texas. He is a California writer who has published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier Government; and The Story of the Mine.
Shinn, Earl
journalist, author, was born in 1837 in Pennsylvania. He was a New York journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation; and the author of The New Hyperion: from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; and Studies in Modern French Art.
Shinn, George Wolfe
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 14, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace church, Newton, Mass., from 1875; and the author of Friendly Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble Beginners in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; and Some Modern Substitutes for Christianity.
Shinn, William N
farmer, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1833 to 1837.
Shipherd, John J
founder, was born March 28, 1802, in West Granville, N. Y.
He was the founder of Oberlin college. He died in 1844.
Shipherd, Zebulon R
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815. He died in Moriah, N. Y.
Shipman, George Elias
physician, journalist, was born March 4, 1820, in New York city. In 1846 he removed to Chicago, where he soon had a large and lucrative practice. In 1865 he became editor of the United States Medical and Surgical Journal, and the next year published The Homœopathic Guide.
Shipman, Nathaniel
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 22, 1828, in Southbury, Conn. In 1851 he engaged in the practice of the law at Hartford, Conn.; was a representative in the state legislature in 1857; and was executive secretary of Governor William A. Buckingham from 1858 to 1862. In 1873 he was appointed United States district judge for the district of Connecticut.
Shipp, Albert Micajah
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 15, 1819, in Stokes county, N. C. He was a methodist clergyman and educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt university from 1874, and the author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina. He died in 1887.
Shipp, Bernard
poet, was born April 30, 1813, near Natchez, Miss. He is a poet of Natchez, and subsequently of Louisville; and the author of Fame, and Other Poems; and Progress of Freedom, and Other Poems.
Shippen, Edward
merchant, lawyer, jurist, was born July 9, 1703, in Boston, Mass. In 1744 he was elected mayor of Boston. In 1745, and for several years thereafter, he was one of the judges of the court of common pleas. In 1752 he moved to Lancaster, where he was appointed prothonotary, and continued such until 1778. He was a county judge under both the provincial and state governments. In early life he laid out and founded Shippensburg, Pa. In 1746-48 he was one of the founders of the college of New Jersey. He died Sept. 25, 1781, in Lancaster, Pa.