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phia, 184.'>-4S; presiding judge of the district court, 184^-67 ; justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, 1SG7-78, and chief -justice, 1878-82. He WAS professor of law at tl»e University of Pennsylvania. 1850-.')2 ; professor of the insti- tutes of law. 1852-G8 ; a trustee. 187-,'-83 ; presi- dent of the law academy of Pliihvlelpliia, 1836-38 ; its vice president, 1838-")."), and provost. 1855-83. His Legal Ethics is re<iuired to be read by all ap- plicants for admission to the bar of North Carolina. He was a trustee of the University of Pennsyl- vania, 1872-8.3 ; was president of the alumni so- ciety ; president of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 1863-84 ; a member of the Historical society of Pennsylvania and the Amer- ican Philosophical society in 1851. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Colum- bia college in 1856. He was married to Mary, daughter of Dr. William Chesney Chambers of Pliiladelphia. Pa. He edited '' Adams on Equity," " Roscoe on Criminal Evidence " (1835) ; " Russell on Crimes" (183G); " Byles on Bills" (1856); " Starkie on Evidence " (1860). He is the author of : Legal Etliics (1854); Popular Lectures on Com- mon Laic (1856); Lectures on Commercial Law (1856), and Sharsicood's Blackstone's Commentaries (1859). He died in Pliiladelphia. Pa., May 28, 1883.

SHATTUC, William B., representative, was born at North Hector. N.Y., June 11, 1841 ; son of Samuel and Desire Shattuc. His parents re- moved to Kipton. Lorain county, Ohio, in 1852, and he was educated in the public schools of that .state. He was a coinniissioned officer in the Union Volunteer army and served at the front during the civil war. He was married, March 11, 1863. to Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Elvira Millusian of North Hector, N.Y. He was an official in the railway traffic service, 1865-95. He made his home at Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati ; was elected state senator from Ham- ilton county to the general assembly in 1895, and was a Republican representative from the first district of Ohio in the 55th. 56th and 57th con- gresses, 1897-1903 ; serving as chairman of the committee on immigration and naturalization and as a member of the committees on railways and canals and Pacific railroads. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1902.

SHATTUCK, Aaron Draper, artist, was born at Francestown, N.H.. March 9, 1832; son of Jesse and Harriet (Williams) Shattuck ; grand- son of Stephen and Lucy (Richardson) Shattuck

and of and Mary (Davis) Williams, and

a descendant of William Shattuck. the original progenitor of all bearing the name in America. He was educated in Lowell, Mass.. received private instrur-tion in Boston, Mass., 1850-52. when he began to study art in the National Academy of Design, New York, becoming an

Academician in 1861, and its recording secretary in 1867. On June 4, 1860, he married Marion, daughter of Samuel and Pamela (Chandler) Col- man of New York. He invented the " Shattuck " stretcher frame for artists' canvas. His pictures include: Study of Grasses and Flowers (1856); White Mountains in October (\S&8) ; Sunday Morn- ing in Xeui England (1873); Sheep and Cattle in Landscape (1874); Autumn in Stoekbridge (1876); Oranby Pastures (1877); Cows by the Meadow Brook {ISS\); Cattle (1882), and Peaceful Days (1884).

SHATTUCK, Corinna, missionar}-. was born in Louisville. Ky. , Ai>ril 21, 184S ; daughter of Obil and Martha Maria (Conant) Sliattuck, and grand- daughter of Simeon and Betsey(Goldsmith)Conant. Her mother died. June 15. 1852. and after her fath- er's death, July 4, 1849, the family removed to the home of her grandparents at South Acton, Mass., where Corinna's girlhood was spent. She attend- ed the public schools ; taught in Maynard, Mass., for three years, and was graduated from Fram- ingham Normal school, 1873. She went as a missionary to Aintab, Turkey' in Asia, in the fall of 1873, under the auspices of the A.B.C.F.M., remaining there until 1876, and spent tlie winters of 1876-78 in school and evangelistic work in Oorfa and in Kessab. With Miss Proctor of Aintab seminary she opened a school for girls at Adana in 1878 ; and in 1879 returned to the United States for the benefit of her health, remaining until 1883 in Colorado Springs. Col., where slie assisted in the library of Colorado college. She was re- appointed as a missionary in 1883 ; served as principal of a girls' college at Marash until 1892. when she resigned to engage in similar work at Oorfa, where, on Dec. 28 and 29, 1895. several thousand of the Armenian Christian population were massacred. Miss Shattuck. who, without an American or European companion, sustained alone this dreadful ordeal, took immediate charge of the relief work for the orphan children, and organized with remarkable efficiency the labor of the survivors, widows and orphans, providing for the education of the children. She was chosen to superintend the distribution of charitable gifts by the Society of Friends of Armenia and by other outside helpers, the work rapidly assuming very large proportions. In 1900 she re-visited the United States, returning after a few months to superintend her educational institutions in Oorfa.

SHATTUCK, George Cheyne, physician, was born in Tenipleton. Mass., July 17. 1783; son of Dr. Benjamin and Lucy (Brirron) Shattuck. and grandson of Stephen and Elizabeth (Robbins) Shattuck and of Jonathan and Rachel (Harvard) Barron. He was graduated at Dartmouth. A.B., 1803, A.M., 1806, M.B., 1806. and at the University