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Shipp, Bernard – Shoemaker, Jacob W

Shipp, Bernard

poet, was born April 30, 1813, near Natchez, Miss. He is a poet of Natchez, and subsequently of Louisville; and the author of Fame, and Other Poems; and Progress of Freedom, and Other Poems.

Shippen, Edward

lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 16, 1729, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the admiralty court for the province; in 1791 was appointed judge of the supreme court, and in 1799 became chief justice. He died April 16, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Shippen, William

physician, lecturer, was born Oct. 21, 1736, in Philadelphia. In 1762 he entered on the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, Pa., ana in the same year began the first course of lectures on anatomy that was ever delivered in this country. He died July 11, 1808, in Germantown, Pa.

Shiras, Alexander Eakin

soldier, was born Aug. 10, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. A large share of the credit for the manner in which the national armies were supplied during the civil war is due to him. At the close of the war he was brevetted brigadier-general and majorgeneral, United States army. He died April 14, 1875, in Washington, D. C.

Shiras, George W

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Pittsburg, Pa.

He practiced law successfully in Pittsburg till his appointment in 1892 as an associate justice of the United States supreme court.

Shiras, Oliver P

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 22, 1833, in Pittsburg, Pa. He removed to Dubuque, Iowa, and was there admitted to the bar in 1856.

He was aid-de-camp and judge advocate on the staff of General Herron in the army of the frontier during 1862 and 1863; and in 1882 was appointed United States district judge for the northern district of Iowa.

Shirk, David Franklin

educator, was born July 10, 1859, in Carroll county, Ill. This popular educator has been principal of several large schools; county superintendent of public instruction of Dickinson county, Kan., and has contributed extensively to current literature on educational topics.

Shirlaw, Walter

artist, was born Aug. 6, 1838, in Scotland. He first exhibited at the National academy in 1861, and subsequently decided to devote himself altogether to art. He was elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1868.

Shirley, John Milton

lawyer, author, was born Nov. 16, 1831, in Sanbornton, N. H. He was a lawyer of Andover, N. H., and the author of The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Complete History of the Dartmouth College Case; and Reports of Cases in Supreme Judicial Court. He died May 21, 1887, in Andover, N. Η.

Shirley, Moses Gage

farmer, poet, was born May 15, 1865, in Goffstown, N. H.

He is a farmer in the place of his nativity; and the author of A Book of Poems.

Shirley, William

soldier, governor, author, was born in 1693 in England. He was a noted colonial soldier who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of Massachusetts in 1741-45.

He was the author of Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of Louisburg; and The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated. He died March 24, 1771, in Roxbury, Mass.

Shoemaker, Jacob W

educator, inventor, artist, author, was born April 18, 1842, in West Overton, Pa. He was the founder and president of the National School of Elocution and Oratory of Philadelphia, Pa., and died May 15, 1880.