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Rh He edited the Boston " Daily Bee" in 184G-'8, the "Mi--ouri Democrat" in 1868-'!). the -Missouri State Atlas" in 1871-'2, and had published " IV1>- bles from Castalia." poems(Boston, 1840); " Pod ry of Feeling" (1844); "Scenes and Songs of Social Life" (1840); "Household Tales" (1861); and several single poems and orations.

SHEPARD, Samuel, clergyman, b. in Salisbury, Mass., 22 June, 17130 ; d. in Brentwood, N. H., 4 Nov., 1815. At the age of sixteen he removed to New Hampshire, and after studying medicine settled in Brentwood, where he soon won reputa- tion in his profession. In 1770 he united with a Baptist church, and in 1771 he was ordained to the ministry. He preached through a wide extent of country, and in his double office of minister and physician looked after the cure of both soul and body. While pastor of the church at Brentwood he had the oversight of several other churches that were branches of this central body. He was thus a sort of Baptist diocesan bishop. No man in the history of his denomination in New Hampshire was better known in his day. He published sev- eral tracts, chiefly relating to baptism.

SHEPARD, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Towcester, England, 5 Nov., 1605 ; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 25 Aug., 1649. He was graduated at Cambridge, 1627, ordained in the established church, and in 1630 silenced for non-conformity. Ho was subse- quently tutor and chaplain in the family of Sir Richard Darby, whose cousin he married. He was silenced again in 1633, and in October, 1635, sailed for this country, settled in Boston, and from that time till his death was pastor of the church in Cambridge, succeeding Thomas Hooker. He soon became involved in the Antinomian controversy, actively opposed the innovators, and was a member of the synod that silenced them. His second wife, Joanna, 'whom he married in 1637, was the daughter of Thomas Hooker. He was active in founding Harvard, and instrumental in placing it at Cam- bridge. Nathaniel Morton, the historian, says of him : " By his death not only the church and peo- ple of Cambridge, but all New England, suffered a great loss." By his third wife, Margaret Boradel, he was the ancestor of President John Q. Adams. He was a vigorous and popular writer on theo- logical subjects, and published " New England's Lamentations for Old England's Errors " (London, 1645) ; " The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel Break- ing out on the Indians of New England" (1648; New York, 1865) ; "Theses Sabbatica" (1649) : and left in manuscript numerous sermons that were subsequently printed in England. These include "Subjection to Christ," with a memoir of him by Samuel Mather and William Greenhill (London, 1652),and "The Parables of the Ten Virgins and oth- er Sermons " (1660 ; new ed., Aberdeen, 1638). His autobiography was published (Cambridge, Mass., 1832), and his collected works, with a memoir of him by Rev. Horatio Alger (3 vols., Boston, 1853). Cotton Mather also wrote his memoir in the " Mag- nalia," and in his " Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England." His son, Thomas, clergyman, b. in London, England, 5 April, 1635 ; d. in Cam- bridge, Mass., 22 Dec., 1677, was graduated at Harvard in 1653, and from 1658 till his death was assistant pastor of the Cambridge church. He pub- lished an election sermon (1672), and edited a vol- ume of miscellaneous sermons (1673).

SHKPARD, William, soldier, b. near Boston, Mass., 1 Dec., 1737 ; d. in Westfield, Mass., 11 Nov., 1817. He enlisted in the provincial army at seven- teen years of age, served in 1757-'63, was a captain under Sir Jeffrey Amherst, and participated in the battles of Fort William and Crown Point. He be- came colonel of the 4th Massachusetts regiment in 1777, and served till 1783, participating in twenty-two engagements, and winning a reputal ion for efficiency and courage. He settled on a farm in Medway, Mass., after the peace, was a member of the executive council in 1788-'i>0, a brigadier- general of militia, and in that capacity during Daniel Shays's insurrection in 1786 prevented the insurgents from seizing the Springfield arsenal. He was subsequently major-general of militia, and in congress in 1797-1803.

SHEPHERD, Nathaniel Graham, author, b. in New York city in 1835; d. there, 23 May, 1869. He studied art in New York, taught drawing in Georgia for several years, returned to his native city, and engaged in the insurance business, de- voting his leisure to study and to writing poems. At the beginning of the civil war he became a war correspondent for the New York " Tribune." He contributed largely to periodicals and journals, and was the author of " The Dead Drummer- Boy." "The Roll-Call," "A Summer Reminiscence." and other poems, which were widely circulated.

SHEPHERD, Oliver Lathrop, soldier, b. in Clifton Park, N. Y., 15 Aug., 1815; d. 16 April, 1894. He was graduated at the IT. S. military academy, and assigned brevet 2d lieutenant, 4th infantry, was promoted 2d lieutenant, 3d infantry. on 2 Oct., 1840, served in the Seminole war, arid became 1st lieutenant in the 3d infantry, 3 Nov., 1845. In 1846 he was selected by Gen. Zachary Taylor as commissary of the supply train in it's march from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande, and served in the war with Mexico, receiving the brevet of captain for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, and that of major for Chapultepec. He was appointed captain on 1 Dec., 1847, served on the frontier, and commanded Fort Defiance, New Mexico, which he defended with three companies against a night attack of the Nav- ajoe Indians, with about 2,500 braves, on 30 April, , and was afterward stationed at Fort Hamil- ton, N. Y. He then commanded a battalion of the 3d infantry in the defences of Washington, became lieutenant-colonel of the 18th infantry, 14 May, , served in the Tennessee and Mississippi i-im- paign in the Army of the Ohio, and was engaged in the pursuit of the Confederates to Baldwin, Miss., 30-31 May, 1862. receiving the brevet of colonel for service during the siege of Corinth, 17 May, 1862. He participated in Gen. Don. Carlos Buell's move- ment through Alabama and Tennessee to Louisville, Ky.. in July and September, and also in Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Tennessee campaign, serv- ing with the Army of the Cumberland from No- vember, 1862, till April, 1863, and commanding a brigade of regular troops from 31 Dec., 1862, till 3 Jan., 1863. He became colonel of the 15th in- fantry on 21 Jan., 1863, and was brevetted brigadier- general on 13 March. 1865, for gallant and meri- torious service in the battle of Stone River, Ten- nessee, and from 7 May, 1863. till 13 Feb., 1866, he was superintendent of the regimental recruit- ing service at Fort Adams, R. I., and he after- ward commanded the 15th regiment in Alabama during the reconstruction of that state in 1868, in which he performed an important part, and was also a commissioner of the Freedmen's bureau for Alabama. Consolidating the 15th and 35th infant- ries, he marched with them to New Mexico in 1869. He was retired from the army on 15 Dec., 1870.

SHEPLEY, John, lawyer, b. in Groton, Conn., 16 Oct., 1787 ; d. in Saoo, Me., 9 Feb., 1857. His family settled in Groton about 1700, the name ap-