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 SHEPARD. SHEPARD. 549 Connecting himself with the law firm of Hillard, Hyde & Dickinson, he remained for three years, when in 1875 he opened an office of his own. From 1883 to '87 he was assistant attorney-general of the Commonwealth, and has since that time continued in the practice of his profession. In 1 88 1 he was admitted to practice at the bar of the United States supreme court. Mr. Shepard was married at Everett, on the 23d of November, 1S73, to Fannie May, daughter of Azor and Temperance Woodman. Their children are : Grace Florence, Marion, Alice Mabel, and Edith May Shepard. Mr. Shepard was a member of the Re- publican city committee of Boston in 1874 and '75, of the Republican state central committee in 1875, 7^ anc ' '77, and presi- dent of the Young Men's Republican state committee in i879-'8o. He has been an earnest member of the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League since its organiza- tion and is now the chairman of its execu- ™ ^y^r HARVEY N. SHEPARD. tive committee. The tariff issue has taken him out of the Republican party, and to-day he is an active Democrat. He was a member of the Boston city council, 1878, '79, and '80 — its president during the latter year — a trustee of the Boston public library, 1 S7S— '79, on its examining committee, 18S8 and '89, man- ager of the Old South Association, 1880, and a member of the House of Represen- tatives, 1 88 1 and '82. He was president of the Excelsior Associates, 1867— '7 1 ; president of the Eliot School Associa- tion, i88i-'82, and treasurer since then ; worshipful master of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., 1881-82 ; high priest of St. John's Chapter, i882-'83 ; thrice illustn ous master of East Boston council, 1S87- '88 ; district deputy grand master of the 1st Masonic district, 1883, '84, '85 ; com- missioner of trials of the Grand Lodge, 1S85, '86, '87, '88, and '89 ; president of the New England Club in 1S86, '87, '88, and '89 ; vice-president of the Boston Loan & Mortgage Company, Kansas City, Mo., 1888-89 ! a director in the Revere Street Railway Company, 1S88 ; president of the Arlington Brick & Tile Company of Florida, 1886, '87, '88, '89. He delivered the Fourth of July oration before the city government of Boston in 1884, and the oration before the faculty and graduates of the Wesleyan Academy, 1887. He has always taken an active part in political matters since 1874, and has spoken in most of the political campaigns. He has been orator on Memorial Day in some prominent town or city since 1878. Mr. Shepard thus shows a record of ac- tive and successful service rarely equaled by a young man of his years. He has in his chosen profession conducted and won several celebrated causes, both in private practice and for the Commonwealth, and few stand to-day better equipped for a career of continued success and enlarged usefulness. SHEPARD, JOHN, son of John and Lucy (Hunt) Shepard, was born in Canton, Norfolk county, March 26, 1834. He received his early education in the public schools of Pawtucket, R. I., and at an evening school in Boston. In 1845 he worked for J. W. Snow, Bos- ton, in the drug business, and in 1847 for J. A. Jones in the dry-goods trade. In 1853, at nineteen years of age, he went into business for himself under the firm name of John Shepard & Co., and in 1861 he bought out Bell, Thing & Co., Tremont Row, doing business until 1865 under the name of Farley & Shepard. Since that time he has been the senior partner of the firm of Shepard, Norwell & Co., dry-goods merchants, on Winter Street in the city of Boston. Mr. Shepard was married in Boston, January 1, 1S56, to Susan A., daughter of