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Shelley, Charles M – Shepard, William B

Shelley, Charles M

soldier, architect, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1833, in Sullivan county, Tenn. He entered the confederate army in 1861, and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh, and forty-eighth congresses. In 1885 he was appointed fourth auditor in the United States treasury at Washington.

Shelton, William Henry

soldier, artist, author, was born Sept. 4, 1840, in Allen's Hill, N. Y. He served as a soldier during the civil war and was promoted to lieutenant. He is probably best known as the author of A Man Without a Memory, published in Scribner's. He is also the author of Capture and Escape, which is a true narrative of his personal experiences as a federal artilleryman.

Shepard, Charles B

congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1807, in Newberne, N. C.

He was elected to congress from North Carolina in 1837, where he continued to serve until 1841. He died in October, 1843.

Shepard, Charles Upham

educator, geologist, author, was born June 29, 1804, in Little Compton, R. I. He was a geologist, professor of geology at Amherst college, who published a valuable Report on the Geology of Connecticut.

He died May 1, 1886, in Charleston, S. C.

Shepard, Charles Upham

chemist, was born Oct. 4, 1842, in New Haven, Conn. In 1887 he presented the second cabinet of minerals that was left by his father, numbering more than ten thousand specimens, to the collection of Amherst; and his cabinet of two hundred different meteorites has been deposited in the United States National museum of Washington, D. C.

Shepard, Edward Morse

lawyer, author, was born in 1850 in New York.

He is a lawyer of Brooklyn; and the author of a Life of Martin Van Buren.

Shepard, Elihu Hotchkiss

educator, author, was born in 1795 in Vermont. He was an educator of St. Louis; and the author of Autobiography; and Early History of St. Louis and Missouri.

He died in 1876.

Shepard, Elliott Fitch

soldier, lawyer, journalist, was born July 25, 1833, in Jamestown, N. Y. He was instrumental in raising the fifty-first New York regiment, which was named for him the Shepard rifles. He was the founder of the New York State Bar association in 1876, which has formed the model for the organization of similar associations in other states. In 1888 he purchased the New York Mail and Express.

Shepard, Irwin

soldier, educator, college president, was born July 5, 1843, in Skaneateles, N. Y. He served three years during the civil war in the ninth army corps. Since 1879 he has been president of the state normal school of Winona, Minn.

Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald

soldier, author, was born July 7, 1816, in Natick, Mass. He was a federal officer in the civil war who was consul at Swatow and Hankow in 1874-80; and the author of Pebbles from Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; and Household Tales. He died in 1889.

Shepard, Lillie R

poet. She is a writer of Melrose, Mass.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled Rays of Light.

Shepard, William B

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1799 in Newberne, N. C. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1827 to 1837, when he declined a re-election. In 1838 he was elected to the state senate, where he served five terms. He died June 20, 1852, in Elizabeth City, N. J.