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Shoemaker, Mrs. Jacob W

elocutionist, author. She is the wife of the late Jacob W. Shoemaker, the founder and president of the National School of Elocution and Oratory of Philadelphia, Pa., and since the death of her husband in 1880 she has continued the management of that institution.

Shoemaker, John Chapman

state senator, was born April 8, 1826, in Perry county, Ind. In 1868 he was elected a member of the lower house of the Indiana legislature, in which body he again brought into prominence the same practical views of legislation that so eminently distinguished him while a member of the senate.

Shoemaker, Lazarus D

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1819, in Kingston, Pa. He graduated at Yale college in 1840, studied and practiced law in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was a member of the state senate in 1866- 68, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-second and forty-third as a congresses republican, serving as chairman of the committee on revolutionary pensions, and on that of claims.

Shonk, George W

lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1850, in Plymouth, Pa. He was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county, Pa., in 1876, and has practiced his profession at Wilkesbarre since. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.

Short, Charles

college president, author, was born May 28, 1821, in Haverhill, Mass. In 1863 he became seventh president of the Kenyon college, and is the author of On the Order of Words in Attic-Greek Prose; and Mitchell's Ancient Geography. He died Dec. 24, 1886, in New York city.

Shortall, John George

humanitarian, was born Sept. 20, 1838, in Ireland.

He entered upon the business of making records of abstracts of title to lands in Cook county, Ill. He did great service in the collection and preservation of his valuable abstracts of title. He is president of the Illinois Humane society, and is associated with the National and State Humane associations.

Shorter, John Gill

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born in 1818 in Jasper county, Ga.

He was for several years a state senator from Alabama. From 1855 to 1861 was circuit judge for his district. He was a member of the confederate congress, and was governor of Alabama from 1861 to 1863. He died May 29, 1872, in Eufaula, Ala.

Shotwell, Ambrose Milton

genealogist, educator, author, was born May 30, 1853, in Elba, N. Y. He has been a successful teacher in schools for the blind, and is now embosser of literature in the Michigan School for the Blind of Lansing. He is the author of Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants; and other works.

Shoup, Francis Asbury

soldier, clergyman, educator, author, born March 22, 1834, in Laurel, Ind. He was an episcopal clergyman and educator of Sewanee, Tenn., professor of metaphysics in the university of the South, and a confederate officer in the civil war. He was the author of Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; and Elements of Algebra. He died in 1896. listed

Showalter, Joseph B

educator, was born Feb. 11, 1851, near Smithfield, Pa. He taught school in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois. He has filled numerous local offices in Chicora, Pa., and in his county and state. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Shower, Jacob

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1853 to 1855.

Shrady, John

physician, author, was born March 13, 1830, in New York city, N. Y. He is a prominent lawyer of New York city, and is the author of Transactions; The Psychical Aspects of Insanity; The Shadow Line of Insanity; Signs of the Moribund Condition; and Two Hundred Years of Medicine.