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Shurtleff, Benjamin

physician, philanthropist. He donated ten thousand dollars to the Baptist college of Upper Alton, Ill. The name of this institution was changed in 1836 to Shurtleff college in his honor.

SHURTLEFF, ERNEST WARBURTON, clergyman, author, poet, was born April 4, 1862, in Boston, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman and verse-writer of Plymouth, Mass.; and the author of Poems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; and New Year's Peace.

SHURTLEFF, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, physician, author, was born Aug. 5, 1819, in Carver, Mass. In 1872 he was elected president of the State Medical society of California, holding this position until 1883.

He is the author of Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity; The Obscure Forms of Epilepsy and the Responsibilities of Epileptics; and Suicide. SHURTLEFF, NATHANIEL BRAD- STREET, antiquarian, author, was born June 29, 1810, in Boston, Mass. He was an antiquarian of Boston; and the author of Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New Style; Topographical Description of Boston; and Passengers of the Mayflower in 1620. With D. Pulsifer he edited The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve vol- He died Oct. 17, 1874, in Boston, umes.

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