Shuck, William Robert – Sibley, Hiram Luther
Shuck, William Robert
lawyer, politician, was born July 15, 1864, in Arkansas. He studied law in the St. Louis Law school; was admitted to the bar in Houston, and has attained success in his profession at Eminence, Mo. He has been commissioner of his county; was elected prosecuting attorney in 1896; is a prominent democrat in politics; and has served two terms on the staff of the secretary of the Missouri senate.
Shuey, Mrs. Lillian Hinnman
author, poet, was born March 22, 1853, in Toulon, Ill. She is a writer of Lorin, Cal.; the author of two prose works entitled Hilda, and Don Louis' Wife; and a volume of poems entitled California Sunshine.
Shuey, William John
journalist. was born Feb. 9, 1827, in Miamisburg, Ohio. In 1866 he became sole agent, which position he has since occupied, of the United Brethren Publishing house of Dayton, Ohio.
Shufeldt, Robert Wilson
naval officer, was born Feb. 21, 1832, in Red Hook, N. Y. He became a midshipman in 1839; served in the Mexican and civil wars; was promoted to rear-admiral in 1883; and retired the following year.
Shuford, Alonzo Craig
agriculturist, congressman, was born March 1, 1858, in Catawba county, N. C. He was *made county lecturer and later district lecturer of the alliance; was elected delegate to the labor conference in St. Louis in 1892; and also delegate for the state at large to the populist convention in Omaha in the same year. He was elected vice-president of the state alliance in 1894; and was elected from North Carolina to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a populist.
Shultz, Emanuel
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 25, 1819, in Berks county, Pa. He was elected in 1875 a member of the Ohio state legislature and served two years; and was elected to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Shultz, James
lawyer, was born in July, 1848, in Van Buren county, Iowa.
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Kansas at Eureka; and prominent in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Shultz, Joseph S
educator, author, poet, was born March 13, 1863, in De Graff, Ohio. For many years he was professor of mathematics and English literature in Wilder college. He is the author of Observations in the Northwest; Looking Upward; and a number of meritorious poems.
Shultz, Theodore
missionary, translator, was born Dec. 17, 1770, in Germany. He entered the foreign mission field of the Moravian church in 1799, and was sent to Surinam, South America, where he served seven years. He revised and improved a Dictionary, and translated a Harmony of the Gospels into the Arrawak language. He died Aug. 4, 1850, in Salem, N. C.
Shulze, John Andrew
state legislator, governor, was born July 19, 1775, in Tulpehocken, Pa. He represented Lebanon county for several years in the state legislature; and was governor of Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1829. He died Nov. 19, 1852, in Lancaster, Pa.
Shumway, Frank L
was born Jan. 25, 1878, in Richmondville, N. Y. He has attained success as an educator; and resides in Normal Circle, Oneonta, N. Y.
Shumway, Henry Cotton
soldier, artist, was born July 4, 1807, in Middletown, Conn. For many years he followed his profession as a miniature-painter successfully in New York and other cities. Among the numerous eminent men that sat to him were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Prince Napoleon, whose portraits he painted in 1838. He died May 6, 1884, in New York.
Shunk, Francis Rawn
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born Aug. 7, 1778, in Trappe, Pa. He established himself for the practice of law in Pittsburg; and was governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848. He died July 30, 1848, in Harrisburg.
Shupe, Henry Fox
journalist, clergyman, was born March 18, 1860, in Scottdale, Pa. In 1893 he was elected editor of The Watchword in Dayton, Ohio. He has been one of the most earnest advocates of the Christian Endeavor movement, and for several years served the cause as one of the vice-presidents of the Pennsylvania union.
Shurtleff, Benjamin
physician, philanthropist. He donated ten thousand dollars to the Baptist college of Upper Alton, Ill. The name of this institution was changed in 1836 to Shurtleff college in his honor.
Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton
clergyman, author, poet, was born April 4, 1862, in Boston, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman and verse-writer of Plymouth, Mass.; and the author of Poems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; and New Year's Peace.
Shurtleff, George Augustus
physician, author, was born Aug. 5, 1819, in Carver, Mass. In 1872 he was elected president of the State Medical society of California, holding this position until 1883.
He is the author of Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity; The Obscure Forms of Epilepsy and the Responsibilities of Epileptics; and Suicide.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Brad- Street
antiquarian, author, was born June 29, 1810, in Boston, Mass. He was an antiquarian of Boston; and the author of Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New Style; Topographical Description of Boston; and Passengers of the Mayflower in 1620. With D. Pulsifer he edited The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve vol- He died Oct. 17, 1874, in Boston, umes.
Mass.
Shurtleff, Roswell Morse
artist, was born June 14, 1838, in Rindge, N. H. His animal paintings first gained him distinction, and of these the best known are The Wolf at the Door, and A Race for Life. Among his later works in oil, most of which are scenes in the Adirondacks, are On the Alert; Autumn Gold; Gleams of Sunshine (1881); and A Song of Summer Woods.
Shute, Samuel
governor, was born in 1653 in England. During 1716-23 he was governor of Massachusetts. He died April 15, 1742, in England.
Shute, Samuel Moore
clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 24, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1859 he became professor of the English language and literature in Columbian university, Washington, D. C. He is the author of a Manual of Anglo-Saxon.
Shutter, Marion Daniel
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1863, in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He has been pastor of the Olivet Baptist church of Minneapolis, Minn., and is now pastor of the First Universalist church of that city. He is the author of Wit and Humor of the Bible; Justice and Mercy; and Child of Nature.
Sibbet, S. D
physician, author, poet, was born in Northampton, Pa. For a quarter of a century he has divided his time between the practice of medicine and scientific researches in Beaver Falls, Pa.
He is the author of a number of medical books, and a volume of poems.
Sibler, Wilhelm
clergyman, author, was born in 1801 in Prussia. He was a Lutheran clergyman of Missouri; and the author of Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year.
Sibler, William Bienhauser
college president, was born Nov. 22, 1826, in New York city. In 1870-71 he was president of Albion college, New York city. He is the author of Progressive Lessons in Greek; Elementary Latin Grammar; A History of St. James Methodist Episcopal Church at Harlem, New York city; and Parallel Classics.
Sibley, Frank J
lecturer, journalist, author, was born Aug. 11, 1847, in Royalton, N. Y. He received his education at Lockport academy, and has attained success as a temperance lecturer and author. In 1877 he was secretary of the prohibition New York state central committee, and of Kansas in 1880. During 1882-85 he was grand chief templar of Good Templars of Nebraska; and since 1893 has filled the same office for Georgia.
During 1889-93 he organized a company and built the town of Demorest, Ga. He has founded various newspapers, and is the author of a number of works on Temperance.
Sibley, Henry Hastings
soldier, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 20, 1811, in Detroit, Mich. He was a delegate to congress from Minnesota territory from 1849 to 1853. In 1857 he was elected its first governor; and was a brigadier-general of volunteers during the rebellion. He commanded an expedition against the Minnesota Indians in 1863; and was subsequently brevetted a major-general of volunteers. He died Feb. 18, 1891, in St Paul, Minn.
Sibley, Hiram
financier, was born Feb. 6, 1807, in North Adams, Mass. He was instrumental in obtaining from congress an appropriation in aid of Morse's. experiments and interested himself in telegraphy from the beginning. His telegraphs eventually extended over thirteen states; were consolidated under the name of the Western Union Telegraph company, of which he was president for seventeen years. He became the largest owner of improved lands in the United States, owning the Burr Oaks farm of nearly forty thousand acres in Illinois; and the Howland Island farm of Cayuga, N. Y. He gave a one hundred thousand dollar building to hold a public library and the collections of the Rochester university; and various other sums were donated by him.
He died July 12, 1888, in Rochester, N. Y.
Sibley, Hiram Luther
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 4, 1836, in Gustavus, Ohio. For fourteen years he was judge of the court of common pleas of the seventh district of Ohio; and in 1897 became circuit judge of the fourth Ohio circuit for a term of six years. He has received the degrees of A. M. and LL. D., and is noted as one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Marietta.