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 5 4 3 SHEPARD. SHEPARL). In 1S53 he became interested in the meat business with Horace Bond, at Ware, and the next year went into the hotel busi- ness with Samuel H. Phelps, and after- ward, having bought out Mr. Bond, con- tinued the meat business for fifteen years, when he made a change, and selling out his interests, took up the real estate busi- ness, which he now carries on at Ware. He served as deputy sheriff for nine years, which included the time of the cele- brated Northampton bank robbery, he hav- ing charge of the prisoner, Dunlap, nearly the whole time he was on trial. Mr. Sheldon was married in Ware, 1855, to Lucy A., the daughter of Horace and Nancy (Hatch) Bond, by whom he has two sons and a daughter. SHEPARD, Edward Olcott, the son of Rev. John W. and Eliza (Burns) Shep- ard, was born in Hampton, Rockingham county, N. H., November 25, 1835. He was fitted for college at the Nashua high school, N. H., entered Amherst Col- lege, and graduated with the class of i860. He then became principal of the high school at Concord, Mass., and continued in that relation till June, 1862, when he enlisted for the war, being commissioned 1st lieutenant of company G, 32d regiment Massachusetts volunteers. He was promoted to captain and major in the same regiment, and breveted lieu- tenant-colonel ; was present at Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville, second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, battles of the Wil- derness, battles before Petersburg, and, in fact, every battle of the 5th corps of the army of the Potomac down to the surrender at Appomattox court-house. He was wounded and taken prisoner at the second battle of Hatcher's Run, while in command of the brigade skirmish line, February 5, 1865; incarcerated in I.ibby Prison, and re- leased on parole February 22, 1865. Upon being honorably mustered out at the close of the war, General Shepard studied law with Harvey Jewell, William Gaston and Walbridge A. Field, in Boston, and was admitted to the bar April 18, 1867. He became a member of the firm in 187 1. Upon Mr. Gaston's election as governor, the firm became Jewell, Field & Shepard, and upon the appointment of Judge Field to the supreme bench in 1881, Jewell & Shepard. Since the decease of Hon. Har- vey Jewell, in December, 1881, Gen. Shep- ard has carried on the practice of law by himself. His firm were the counsel for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company from 1865 to '81, and General Shepard was its general counsel from 1881 until it was merged into the West End Street Railway Company, in 18S7, when he be- came counsel of that corporation for the department of claims and accidents, which responsible position he holds at the pres- ent time. EDWARD O SHEPARD He was a member of the common coun- cil of Boston, 1872, and president of that body, 1873 and '74. He was appointed judge-advocate general upon the staff of Governor Oliver Ames, with the rank of brigadier-general, in 18S7, anil now holds that position and military rank. He married, June 18, 1874, Mary C, daughter of the Hon. Micajah and Mary (Johnson) Lunt, of Newburyport, by whom he has four children : Mary Lunt, Edward Olcott, Ralph Lunt, and Allan Richards Shepard. SHEPARD, Harvey Newton, son of William and Eliza Shepard, was born in Boston, July 8, 1850. He received his early education in the Eliot school, graduating in 1863, and en- tered Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham, where he graduated in 1867. He then entered Harvard College, graduating in the class of 1871, and then the Harvard law school, from which he graduated the following year.