Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

Thousands of short American lives — soldiers, inventors, preachers, governors, novelists — each given a paragraph: born where, did what, and why anyone remembered.

HomeS › Shattuck, Lemuel

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.

← Shattuck, George CheyneSharp, Solomon Z – Shaw, Albert →