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LEFT SHELBY 382 SHELDON and was sent by the king to the Marquis of Rockingham with an offer of the Treasury, himself to be one of the Sec- retaries of State. It soon appeared that Shelburne was not so much the colleague as the rival of Lord Rockingham, the chosen minister of the court, and the head of a separate party in the cabinet. On Rockingham's death in the follow- ing July the king sent at once for Shel- burne and offered him the Treasury, which he accepted without consulting his colleagues. Fox thereupon resigned, and Shelburne introduced William Pitt, then only 23, into office as his Chancellor of the Exchequer. Shelburne's ministry, on the occasion of the king's announcement of his determination to concede the in- dependence of the American colonies, found itself outvoted by the coalition be- tween Fox and Lord North (February, 1783). He resigned, and the coalition ministry took his place, but soon broke up. The nation expected that the king on this event would have sent for Shel- burne, but William Pitt received the prize, and Shelburne was consoled by being made in 1784 Marquis of Lansdowne. The rest of his days he spent in retire- ment, amusing himself by collecting in Lansdowne House a splendid gallery of pictures and a fine library, and with the friendship of Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, Sir S. Romilly, Mirabeau, Dumont, and others. He died in Bowood Park, Wilt- shire, May 7, 1805. SHELBY, ISAAC, an American mili- tary officer; born in North Mountain, Md., Dec. 11, 1750; settled with his father on the site of Bristol, Tenn., in 1771, and there engaged in the herding of cattle. ' In 1774 he was made a lieutenant in a company commanded by his father. He was present at the action of Point Pleas- ant, where his skill won the day, and he commanded the fort there till July, 1775. During the battle of Long Island flats, when the American line was broken by the attack of the Indians, though pres- ent only as a private, he took command, and by his valor so inspirited the troops that they rallied and completely defeated the savages. Along with the defense of Watauga this victory saved the colonies in the South from a rear attack. Later Shelby was appointed commissary-general of the Virginia troops with the rank of captain; was made colonel in 1779; and in the following year with John Sevier planned the expedition which brought about the action of King's Mountain and changed the whole aspect of the Revolu- tionary War. In 1792, when Kentucky became a State he was chosen its first governor by an overwhelming majority. He refused to be a candidate for a second term, but settled down to farm life which he declined to leave for public office. When the War of 1812 broke out and Michigan fell into the hands of the enemy, ISAAC SHELBY though 63 years old, he recruited and led 4,000 men to re-inforce Gen. William H. Harrison. In recognition of this ser- vice Congress voted him a gold medal and he received the thanks of both that body and the Legislature of Kentucky. He died near Stanford, Ky., July 18, 1826. SHELBYVILLE, a city and county- seat of Shelby co., Ind.; on the Big Blue river, and on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis rail- roads; 26 miles S. E. of Indianapolis. It is in a rich agricultural section, and has a large general trade, flour, saw and planing mills, and manufactories of bar- rels, ice, glue, soda-fountains, baking powder, carriages, and furniture. Pop. (1910) 9,500; (1920) 9,701. SHELDON, CHARLES MONROE, an American clergyman; born in Wellsville, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1857; was graduated at Brown University in 1883 and at An- dover Theological Seminary in 1886; was ordained in the Congregational Church the same year, and became pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Topeka, Kan., in 1899. In 1912 he resigned to become a "minister-at-large." He was recalled to the Central Church in 1915. He edited the Topeka "Capital" for one week in 1900, as a distinctly Christian