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claims in 1875, and tried before that court all the cases that were on the Gulf coast. He was an elector on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket in 1877, and in the same year was appointed a commis- sioner to revise and reorganize the customs service on the Gulf coast. In 1879 he returned to Oliio, was a delegate to the Republican national con- vention in Chicago, in 1880, and was one of the four men who proposed the nomination of Gar- field, after ivards taking an active part in the presidential campaign. He was governor of New Mexico, 1881-85, was appointed receiver of the Texas and Pacific railroad by the U.S. circuit court of New Orleans in 1885, sold the road in 1887, and removed to Pasadena, Cal. He was a delegate at large from California to the Republi- can national convention in St. Louis, 1896. He was married to Maiy Greene, daughter of Thomp- son and Mary (Greene) Miles of Elyria, Ohio.

SHELDON, Walter Lorenzo, ethicist, was born in West Rutland, Vt., Sept. 5, 1858; son of Preston and Cornelia (Hatch) Sheldon. He at- tended the public schools and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1880; continued his studies in the universities of Leipzig and Berlin, 1880-82, and in 1886 settled in St. Louis, Mo., where he became associated with various educational efforts, as lecturer of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, and founded the Self Culture Hall association, an institute for wage-earners, in 1888, of which he officiated as director from its organization. He was married. May 18, 1893, to Anna, daughter of Cliarles Hartshorne of Phil- adelphia, Pa. He is the author of: An Ethical Movement, lectures (1896); Story of the Bible (1899); An Ethical Sunday School (1900); The Old Testament Bible Stories for the Young (1903), and contributions to the International Journal of Ethics, and the Chicago Journal of Sociology.

SHELLABARQER, Samuel, representative, was born in Clark county, Oliip, Dec. 10, 1817; maternal grandson of Thomas McCurdy of

Belfast, Ireland, and (Adams) McCurdy of

Amboy, N.J., and a descendant of Rudolph Schallenberger, one of the thirty-three founders of the Svviss League against Austria on Nov. 8, 1307, and joint owner of Schallenberg mountain. He was graduated at Miami university, Ohio, A.B., 1841, A.M., 1814; adopted the legal pro- fession and practised in Springfield, Ohio, 1846- 60. He was a representative in the fiftieth Ohio legislature, 1853-54; represented the eighth Oliio district in the 37th congress, 1861-63; the seventh district in the 39th, 40th and 43d congresses, 1865- 69 and 1871-73, and served on special committees, on civil service, New Orleans riots, and assassina- tion of President Lincoln, and as chairman of the committee on the provost-marshal's bureau and on commerce. He was a delegate to the

Philadelphia Loyalists' convention, 1866; U.S. minister to Portugal, 1869-71, and a civil service commissioner, 1874-75, by appointment of Presi- dent Grant. He became a law partner of Jere- miah Wilson in 1875, and the firm practised in Washington, D.C., 1875-96, being attorneys for the Union Pacific railroad. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. for Miami in 1891. He died in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 1896.

SHELLEY, Charles Miller, representative, was born in Sullivan county, Tenn., Dec. 38, 1833; son of William and Margaret F. (Etten) Slielley; grandson of Nathan Shelley, and of Henry and Margaret Etten. His father removed to Selma, Ala., in 1836. His brother, Gen. Nathan George Shelley, was attorney-general of Texas and brigadier-general of the Texan volunteers in the Confederate States army, 1801-65. Charles Miller Shelley received a limited education and learned the trade of architect and builder, a busi- ness in which his father was engaged in Selma. In February, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate provisional army as lieutenant, serving first at Fort Morgan and in the defence of Mobile; re- ceived promotion to captain in the 5tli Alabama, 1861; to colonel of the 30th Alabama in 1862, and took part in the first battle of Bull Run, the battles of Fayewell, Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, the siege of Vicksburg, the battles of Rocky Face- Ridge, Resaca, Marietta, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and all the battles in the Georgian campaign, Franklin, Tenn., Nashville and nu- merous otiier engagements and skirmishes. He was promoted brigader-general, Sept. 17, 1864, and surrendered. May 3, 1865, in command of a brigade of Alabama infantry. He was married, June 15, 1865, to Kathleen, daughter of Gen. Felix Grundy and Elizabeth J. (Hogan) Mc- Connell of Talladega, Ala. General Shelley was Democratic representative from the fourth Ala- bama district composed of the counties of Dallas Hale, Lowndes, Perry and Wilcox in the 45th and 46th congresses, 1877-81. He was a candidate for re-election and received a certificate of election to the 47th congress but was unseated, July 20, 1883. The seat was declared vacant and he was chosen to it, Nov. 7, 1883. He received a certi- ficate of election to the 48th congress, but Geo. H. Craig, Republican, successfully contested the seat and was seated Jan. 9, 1885.

SHELLEY, Harry Rowe, musician, was born in New Haven, Conn., June 8, 1858; son of Rus- sell T. and Mary Ellen (Rowe), and a descendant of Shelleys of England. He began the study of music at an early age, and became organist of Center church. New Haven, Conn., in 1873. He continued his studies at Yale under Professor Stoeckel: in Brooklyn, N. Y., under Dudley Buck. 1877; then under Anton Dvorak, and subsequently