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Shedd, Joel Herbert

civil engineer, author, was born May 31, 1834, in Pepperell, Mass. He is an eminent civil engineer of Providence, whose most important professional labor is the Providence waterworks. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening, and many important professional papers.

SHEDD, MRS. JULIA ANN (CLARK), author, was born Aug. 8, 1834, in Newport, Maine. She was the author of Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors and Sculpture; The Ghiberti Gates; and Raphael: His Madonnas and Holy Families.

SHEDD, WILLIAM GREENOUGH THAYER, educator, clergyman, author, was born June 21, 1820, in Acton, Mass.

He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union seminary in 1863-90, and a theologian of a very conservative type. He is the author of History of Christian Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punishment; Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster Standards; Calvinism Pure and Mixed; and Literary Essays.