Shiells, Robert
banker, poet, was born Nov. 21, 1825, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is well versed in the Latin classics, and acquired a good knowledge of Latin, French and Greek, and a course in the higher mathematics. He was trained as a mechanical and civil engineer. He took part in the first surveys of the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien railway, which is now known as the Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. As locating and division engineer he remained with the road until its completion to the Mississippi in 1857, and subsequently did government surveying in Wisconsin. He was also two years engaged in railroad work in Ohio. In 1861 he organized the bank of Neenah, which four years later became the National bank of Neenah, of which he is president. He has been president of the city public library since its commencement. He is a member of the American Numismatic and Archæological society, and also is a member of two historical societies. Mr. Shiells is the author of a volume, The Story of the Token as Belonging to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PENHAL- LOW, journalist, author, was born July 12, 1814, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humorist, whose latest years were spent in Chelsea, Mass. He was the author of Life and Sayings of Mrs.
Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington's Mother Goose; Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide Swath, a volume of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with Captain Bob; and The Double-Runner Club. He died Nov. 25, 1890, in Chelsea, Mass.
SHIMEALL, RICHARD CUNNING- HAM, clergyman, author, was born in 1803 in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman who adopted reformed Dutch tenets in 1834, and subsequently became a presbyterian. He was a noted biblical scholar of millenarian views. He was the author of The End of Prelacy; Christ's Second Coming; Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III; Unseen World; and Political Economy of Prophecy. He died March 19, 1874, in New York city.
SHIMER, FRANCES A. WOOD, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1826, in Milton, N. Y. She is the founder and president of the Mount Carroll seminary and Conservatory of Music of Mount Carroll, Ill., which institution she founded in 1852.
SHINDLER, MRS. MARY STANLEY BUNCE [PALMER] [DANA], poet, was born Feb. 15, 1810, in Beaufort, S. C.
She was a once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a unitarian, and published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married her second husband, an episcopal clergyman, and was received into his church. She was the author of The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom; and A Southerner Among the Spirits. She died in 1883.