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Rh When the Ohio annual conference of that body was organized in October. 1829, he was elected (incident, and stationed at Cincinnati; and in 1833, when the Pittsburg conference was formed, he was chosen its president. From 1834 till 1830 he was associate editor of the " Methodist Prot- estant" at Baltimore. He was subject to attacks nf insanity, and died in an asylum. He published An Essay on the Plan of Salvation " (Baltimore, 1813), and " The Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being" (Philadelphia, 1840).

SHINN, George Wolfe, clergyman, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 14 Dec., 1839. He was educated at the public schools, at Virginia theological school, and the Philadelphia divinity-school, and was grad- uated at the latter in 1863. He entered the min- istry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and has been rector of churches in Philadelphia, Shamo- kin, and Lock Haven, Pa., Troy, N. Y., and of Grace church. Newton, Mass., where he still (1898) remains. He has been head master of St. Paul's school. Troy, edited for ten years " The Teachers' Assistant," contributed articles to church periodi- cals, and has published " Manual of Instruction upon the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels for the Christian Year " (New York. 1874) ; " Manual of the Prayer- Book " (1875) ; " Manual of Church History " (1876) ; "Stories for the Happy Days of Christmas Time" (1879); "Questions about" our Church" (1880); "Questions that trouble Beginners in Religion" (1882); and edited a '-Prayer- Book and Hymnal for the Sunday-School " (1885).

SHIPMAN, George Elias, physician, b. in Xew York city, 4 March, 1820 ; d. in Chicago. 20 Jan.. 1893. He entered Middlebury, was gradu- ated at the University of New York, and four years later completed his studies at the New York college of physicians and surgeons. In 1846 he removed to Chicago, where he soon had a large and lucrative practice. In 1848 he founded the "Northwestern Journal of Homoeopathy," and was its successful editor four years. Since that date he had contrib- uii'd many articles to medical journals, and in 1865 he became editor of the "United States Medical and Surgical Journal," and the next year published " The Homoeopathic Guide." In 1871 he conceived the idea of establishing a home for foundlings; or, as he firmly believed and declared, he founded the home in obedience to the expressed desire of God. With $77.38 in hand he opened it, 30 Jan.. 1871, trusting in the Lord to furnish the needed funds as wanted. On 9 May. 1874. possession was taken of a new building that cost $40,837. To this an addition was made in 1883-'4, making the aggre- gate cost of buildings $88,690. During the first thirteen years 4,978 children were received, of which 889' were given away, and 1,097 were restored to their parents. No state or municipal aid has ever been contributed to the support of the home, nor had Dr. Shipman ever asked for any assistance. SHIPP, Albert Micajall, educator, b. in Stokes county, N. C., 15 Jan.. 1819 ; d. in Cleveland Springs, N. C., in 1887. He was graduated in 1840, and re- ceived into the South Carolina Methodist confer- ence in 1841. In 1847 lie became president of Greensborough female college, N. C., and in 1849 professor of history and French in the University of North Carolina. He was made in 1859 president of Wofford college, Spartanburg Court-House, S. C., in is 74 professor of exegetical and biblical theology in Vanderbilt university, and in 1883 dean of the faculty and chancellor of that university. He originated the feature of biblical professorships in all Methodist institutions of learning, and was among the first to advocate biblical institutes for the proper education of preachers for the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He had been a member of every general conference since 1850. lie had published "The History of Methodism in South Carolina" (Nashville, 1882).

SHIPP, Bernard, author, b. near Natchez, Miss.. ::<) April, 1813. His father. William Shipp. a native of Virginia, was a merchant of Natchez for thirty years. He was educated at Lexington. Ky.. and at Philadelphia, and, after spending his youth and early manhood at Natchez, remove. I i.. Louisville, Ky. He published " Fame, and other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1848), and "The Progress of Freedom, and other Poems" (New York, 1852).

SHIPPEN, Edward, mayor of Philadelphia, b. in Hillhain, Cheshire, England, in 1639; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 2 Oct., 1712. He was the son of William Shippen. His brother. Rev. William Shippen, D. D., was rector of Stockport, Cheshire, and his nephew, Robert Shippen. D. D., was principal of Brasenose college, and vice-chancellor of Oxford university. Edward was bred to mercantile pursuits, and emigrated to Boston. Mass., in 1668. where he became a wealthy merchant. In 1671 he became a member of the Ancient and honorable artillery company of Boston. He married Elizabeth Lybrand, a Quakeress, united with that sect, and shared the " jailings, whippings, and banishments, the fines and imprisonments," that were inllicted on the. Quakers. In 1693 Mr. Shippen was either banished or driven to take refuge in Philadelphia. He did not quit Boston without erecting a memorial on " a green." near to " a pair of gallows, where several of our friends had suffered death for the truth, and were thrown into a hole." He asked leave of the magistrates to erect some more lasting monument there, but they were not willing. About the time he was leaving he gave a piece of land for a Friends' meeting-house, located in Brattle's pasture, on Brattle street, near the site of the Quincey house, and on which was constructed the first brick church in Boston. In Philadelphia his wealth and character obtained for him position and influence. In 1695 he was elected to the assembly, and chosen speaker. In 1690 he was elected to the provincial council, of which he continued a member till his death, and for ten years lie was the senior member. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in the same year, and in a judge of the supreme court, and t" judge of the courts of common pleas a judge of the supreme court, and the presiding judge of the courts of common pleas and quarter sessions and the orphan's court. In 1701 he became mayor of Philadelphia, being so named in William Perm's city charter of that year, ami during this year he was appointed by Penn to be one of his commissioners of property, which office Shippen held till his death. As president of the council, he was the head of the government from May until December, 1703. In 1704, and for several years thereafter, he was chosen one of the aldermen, and from 1 June. 1705, till 1712 he was the treasurer of the city. He contracted his third marriage in 1706, which led to his withdrawal from the Society of Friends. His house long bore the name of "the Governor's House." "It was built in the early rise of the city, received then the name of Shippen's Great House.' while Shippen himself was proverbially distinguished for three great tilings the biggest person, the biggest house, and the biggest coach.' " His son, Joseph, b. in Boston, 28 Feb., 1679 ; d. in Philadelphia in 1741, lived in Boston until 1704, when he moved to Philadelphia. He was among the men of science in his day, and in 1727 he joined Benjamin Franklin in founding the Junto " for mutual information and the public