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Shearer, John Bunyan

clergyman, college president, was born July 19, 1832, in Appomattox county, Va. This eminent presbyterian clergyman and professor of biblical instruction and moral philosophy during 1870-75 was president of the Stewart college of Clarksville, Tenn. For thirteen years he was president of the Southwestern Presbyterian university; and since 1888 has been president of Davidson college, North Carolina. THOMAS GASKELL, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 25, 1834, in England. He is a lawyer and political economist of New York city, and the author of Law of Practice and Pleadings; Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does Protection Protect? Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; National Taxation; Henry George's Mistake; and Crooked Taxation. SHEARMAN, SHEATS, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, state legislator, congressman, was born April 10, 1839, in Walker county, Ala. He was elected to the Alabama state legislature in 1861; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-third congress. In 1875 he was appointed sixth auditor of the United States treasury.