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 SHEARMAN

SHEFFEY

the Presbyterian church (southern) in 1899, He is the autliorof: Bible Course Syllabus (3 vols., 18'J"»). ami nuinerous review articles.

SHEARMAN, Thomas Qaskell, i)olitical econ- omist, was born in Birmingham, Eng., Nov. 25, 1834. He came to the United States with his parents in 1844 and was educated in private schools of New York city, until 1847, when his school attendance was interrupted by his being obliged to take a clerkship in a dry-goods store. His studies, however, were continued evenings under his mother's supervision. He removed to Brooklyn in 1857 where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859. As secretary of the Code commission of New York state, he prepared the entire "Book of Forms " in 1861, and most of the part relating to obligations in 1865. He also edited a law journal. In 1868, he became a law partner of David Dudley Field, and the firm was retained as attorneys for the Erie railway company. In 1873 the firm was dissolved and he formed a partnership with John W. Sterling, in order to defend Jay Gould and his associates in numerous damage suits growing out of the gold panic of 1869, in all of which the firm was successful. He was counsel for Henry Ward Beecher in the case brought against him by Theodore Tilton in 1874. the entire conduct of the trial being intrusted to his judgment, and al- thongii upwards of $100,000 were involved in preparation, the firm refused to accept any pay for its two years of labor and expense. Mr. Shearman was a member of the Republican party, 1856-84, but supported Cleveland for the presi- dency in 1884, and remained with the Cleveland wing of the Democratic party, voting, however, for McKinley in 1900. As an advocate of free trade and a convert to the taxation theories of Henry George, he lectured extensively on the subjects of single-tax and revenue reform. At the outbreak of the Boer war, Mr. Shearman sup- ported the action of the British government and resigned his membership in the Manhattan Sin- gle-Tax club, when that organization adopted resolutions of sympathy for the Boers. He was a founder of tiie Brooklyn Revenue Reform club; member of the Reform club of New York, the National Civic club, the Brooklyn Democratic club, the Hamilton club, and a leader in Plj'- mouth Church. During the last years of his legal practice, he devoted himself to the manage- ment of large estates and of trust funds. He is joint author of: Tillingliast and Shearman's Practice, Pleadings and Forms (1861-65) and Shearman and Redfield on Negligence (1869-88), and author of: Talks on Free Trade (1881); Pauper Labor of Europe (1885); Distribution of Wealth (1887); Owners of the United States (1889); Tlie Coming Billionaire (1890); Crooked Taxa-

tion (1891), and Natural Taxation (new edit, 1898). He was also a voluminous contributor on economic subjects to the press. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 'JS», V.M).

SHEDD, William Qreenough Thayer, theo- logian, was born in Acton, Mass., June 21, 1820. He graduated from the University of Vermont, 1839; Auburn Theological seminary, 1843; was ordained Jan. 4, 1844; was pastor at Brandon, Vt., 1844-45, and was married, Oct. 7, 1845, to Lucy Ann Myers, of Whitehall. N. Y. He was professor of English literature at the University of Vermont, 1845-52, professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology at Auburn Theological seminary, 1852-53, Brown professor of ecclesias- tical history and lecturer on pastoral theology at Andover Theological seminary, 1853-62; assistant pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church in New York city, 1862-63; professor of biblical literature at Union Theological seminary, N. Y., 1863-74, and professor of systematic theology there, 1874- 1890. He bequeathed his large library to the University of Vermont, received the lionorary degree of D.D. from Auburn Theological semi- nary in 1857 and that of LL.D. from the Univer- sity of the City of New York in 1876. His works include: " Translation of Theremin's Rhetoric" (1848), "Coleridge's Works" (7 vols., 1853), Lectures on the Philosophy of History. Discourses and Essays (1856); Manual of Church History (1857); Confession of Augustine (1860); History of Christian Doctrine (2 vols., 1863); Homileties and Pastoral Theology (1867); Sermons to the Nat U7'al Man (1871); Theological Essays (1877); Literary Essays (1878); Commentary 07i St. Paid's Epistle to the Romans (1879); Sermons to the Sj) ir i t ual 3Ian (ISSi); Doctrine of Endless Pun- ishment (1885); a Monograph on Calvinism, Pure and Mixed, and Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (1893); Dogmatic Theology (1894), and contribu- tions to the Bibliotheca Sacra and the Ameri- can Theological Jievieiv. He died in New York city, Nov, 17. 1894,

SHEFFEY, Daniel, representative, was born in Frederick, Md., in 1770; son of a German shoe- maker who settled in Augusta, Va. He had few educational advantages in his youth but was in- duced to study law by Judge Alexander Smyth and acquired a considerable reputation at the bar. He was a member of the house of delegates of Virginia; a representative in the 10th-14th congresses, 1809-17, and in congress favored the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States and opposed the policy of the ad- ministration in the war of 1812, His daughter married John Francis Lewis (q.v.), and was still living in 1900 at Harrisonburg, W. Va., with her son, D. S. Lesvis. Daniel Sheflfey died near Staunton, Va., Dec, 3, 1830,