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 846 SHENSTONE SHERIDAN SHENSTONE, William, an English poet, born at the Leasowes in Hales-Owen, Shropshire, in November, 1714, died there, Feb. 11, 1T63. He passed several years at Pembroke college, Oxford, but never took a degree. About 1746 he retired to his hereditary estate of the Lea- sowes, which it thenceforth became the busi- ness of his life to beautify. He wrote ele- gies, odes, ballads, and miscellaneous pieces, but is best known by the " Schoolmistress," a I poem published in 1742. Dodsley published his works and letters (3 vols. 8vo, 1764-'9). An j edition of his poems, with a memoir by the Rev. George Gilfillan, appeared at Edinburgh in 1854, and a new edition of hi- " Essays on Men and Manners," &c., at London in 1868. SHEPARD, Charles I pliant, an American physi- cist, born at Little Compton, R. I., Juae 29, 1804. He graduated at Amherst college in 1824, taught botany and mineralogy in Boston, was for two years assistant in the laboratory of Prof. Silliman at Yale college, and took charge for one year of an institution opened in New Haven by James Brewster for popular lectures on science. In the winter of 1882-'3 Mr. Shepard, under a commission^ from the United States government, investigated the culture of the sugar cane and the manufacture of sugar in the southern states, and incorpo- rated the results of his observations in Prof. Silliman's report to the secretary of the trea- sury in 1888. He had previously been ap- pointed lecturer on natural history in Yale col- lege, a post which he held till 1847. From 1884 to 1861 he was professor of chemistry in the Charleston medical college, 8. 0. In 1835 he was appointed associate of Dr. Percival in the state geological survey of Connecticut. In 1845 he was chosen professor of chemistry and natural history in Amherst college, where he is now (1875) professor of natural history. His collection of minerals and meteorites, now deposited in Amherst college, is the finest in the United States, and surpassed in Europe only by those of the British museum and the imperial cabinet of Vienna. He has published "Treatise on Mineralogy" (1882; 3d ed., en- larged, 1855), a report on the geology of Con- necticut (1837), and numerous scientific papers. SHERBROOKE. I. A S. county of Quebec, Canada, drained by the St. Francis and Magog rivers ; area, 219 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 8,516, of whom 3,544 were of French, 2,442 of Eng- lish, 1,601 of Irish, and 777 of Scotch origin or descent. It is traversed by the Grand Trunk, the Massawippi Valley, and the St. Francis and Lake Megantic International rail- ways. II. A town, capital of the county, on both sides of the river Magog, at its entrance into the St. Francis, on the Portland division of the Grand Trunk railway, at the intersec- tion of the Massawippi Valley railway, 80 m. E. by S. of Montreal ; pop. in 1871, 4,432. It contains manufactories of woollen and cotton cloths, flannels, iron castings, machinery, axes, pails, dec., several saw mills and breweries, a bank, a branch bank, an academy, and three weekly newspapers (one French). SHERBCRNE, a central county of Minnesota, bounded S. W. by the Mississippi and inter- sected by Snake river ; area, 445 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 2,050. It contains several small lakes. The surface is diversified and the soil produc- tive. It is traversed by the St. Paul and Pa- cific railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 26,457 bushels of wheat, 87,006 of Indian corn, 17,797 of oats, 17,987 of potatoes, 8,303 tons of hay, 2,556 Ibs. of wool, and 56,610 of butter. There were 412 horses, 716 milch cows, 1,490 other cattle, 1,112 sheep, and 542 swine. Capital, Orono. SHERIDAN. I. An unorganized N. W. coun- ty of Kansas ; area, 900 sq. m. It is drained by Prairie Dog creek, the North and South forks of Solomon river, and the Saline river. It consists of undulating and fertile prairies, and is well adapted to grazing. II. A N. cen- tral county of Dakota, recently formed and not included in the census of 1870 ; area, about 1,750 sq. m. It contains several small lakes, and the N. part is watered by one of the head streams of the Cheyenne and by an affluent of Mouse river. The W. part is occupied by the Plateau du Coteau du Missouri. SHERIDAN, Philip Henry, an American soldier, born in Somerset, Perry co., Ohio, March 6, 1831. He graduated at West Point in 1853, served in Texas in 1854-'5, and on the Pacific coast till May 14, 1861, when he was made captain of the 13th infantry, chief quarter- master and commissary of the army of S. W. Missouri, and subsequently quartermaster to Gen. Halleck in the Mississippi campaign of the spring of 1862. On May 25, 1862, he was made colonel of the 2d Michigan volunteer cavalry, and took part in the pursuit of the confederates from Corinth, May 80 to June 10, and in the engagement at Booneville, July 1, when he was made brigadier general of vol- unteers. In command of the llth division of the army of the Ohio he led the advance into Kentucky, and was in the battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, and in the subsequent march to the re- lief of Nashville. Assigned to the army of the Cumberland, his division was in the campaign of Tennessee from November, 1862, to Sep- tember, 1868, taking active part in the battle of Murfreesboro (see MTJRFBKKSBOBO), when he was made major general of volunteers. He captured a train and prisoners at Eagleville in March ; crossed the Cumberland mountains and Tennessee river in August; took part in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19, 20, and in the operations about Chattanooga, inclu- ding the battle of Missionary ridge, Nov. 23- 25 ; and was subsequently engaged in E. Ten- nessee till March, 1864. From April 4 to Aug. 3 he was in command of the cavalry corps of the army of the Potomac, and with his 10,000 men was actively employed in operations in the Wilderness, and between it and Richmond, in May, June, and July. While mainly employed