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of General Lyon in the battles of Dug Sprinp^s and at AVilson's Creek, where he was wounded. He also served as aide-de-camp to Maj. S. D. Sturgis ; was transferred to the 19th Missouri volunteers as lieutenant-colonel ; commanded the provost guard at St. Louis, Mo., and was pro- moted colonel of the 3d Missouri volunteers, with which his old regiment consolidated Jan. 18, 1863. In the movement of the 13th army corps under General Sherman against Vieksburg, Dec. ■2, 1862, he was in the 2d brigade, 4th division, Gen. F. D. Steele. He also fought at Arkansas Port, Jan. 11, 1863, took part in the expeditions to Deer Creek and Black Bayou, Miss. ; was placed in command of the 1st Mississippi regi- ment of colored troops in the Mississippi valley, May 28. 1S63, reported to Grant, who assigned him to McPherson's corps with headquarters at Haines Blulf, Miss.; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Oct. 27, 1863, and was honorably mustered out July 4, 1864. He was editor of the Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, 1868-69, served as •adjutant-general of the state and as chairman of tlie Republican state committee, 1870-71, and as U.S. consul to Swatow and Hankow, China, 1874- 86. He edited the Missouri State Atlas, 1871-72, and is the author of : Pebbles from Castalia poems (1840); Poetry of Feeling (1844); Scenes and Songs of Social Life (1846), and Household Tales (1861). He died at Bellingham, Mass., Aug. 25, 1889.

SHEPHERD, Alexander Robey, governor of the District of Columbia, was born in Washington, D.C., Jan. 31, 1835 ; son of Alexander and Susan (Robey) Shepherd. He early engaged in business, following the trade of a carpenter and subse- quently that of a plumber ; enlisted in the Wash- ington volunteers, 1861, and was a member of the National Rifles in 1863. He was elected presi- dent of the city council in 1861, in which capacity he became tlie active advocatepf public improve- ments. He was married, Jan. 30, 1863, to Mary Gi'ier, daughter of Col. William Probyand Susan Bradford (Griei') Young. He Was chairman of the Citizens' Reform association, which secured legislation establishing territorial government in the District of Columbia in 1871 ; was appointed vice-president of the board of public works and governor of the territory by President Grant in 1871, holding that position until 1874, when con- gress abolished district government. During his administration, in order to check the movement to change the national capital to some other loca- tion, he began the work of improvement upon a gigantic scale, his ground plan being based upon that of the French engineer, L'Enfant. His ex- travagant measures, which transformed the city of Washington, brought about charges of corrup- tion, which were not sustained by investigation.

He was nominated one of the three commissioners of the District of Columbia by President Grant in 1874, but refused confirmation by the senate, and in 1880 removed to Batopilas, where he de- veloped a mining company, of which he served as vice-president and general manager, acquiring an immense fortune. He visited Washington, D.C., in 1887, where he was given a public recep- tion and granted the freedom of the municipality, and made a second visit in 1895. He died in Batopilas, Mexico, Sept. 12. 1902.

SHEPHERD, Henry Elliott, educator, was born in Fayetteville, N.C, Jan. 17, 1844; son of Jesse George and Kate (Dobbin) Shepherd ; grandson of Jesse B. and Kate (Elliott) Shep- herd, and of John Moore and Margaret (McQueen) Dobbin, and a descendant of Hugh Dobbin, of Ireland ; George Elliott, of Dumfries, Scotland ; Donald McQueen of Greenock, Scotland, and John Shepherd, of Wales. He was educated at the University of Virginia, 1860-61 ; served in the Confederate army, 1861-65, and was severely wounded at Gettysburg. He was married, June 25, 1867, to Kate, daughter of Elijah P. and Lydia (McGregor) Goodridge. of Norfolk, Ya. He was professor of rhetoric and history, Baltimore City college, 1868-75 ; superintendent of public schools in Baltimore, 1875-83, and in October, 1882, became president of the College of Cliarles- ton, S.C, and also had the chair of history and of the English language and literature. He resigned from the presidency in 1897, and was succeeded by Harrison Randolph (q.v.). He was professor of English in the Sauveur Summer College of Languages, Burlington, Vt., in 1887-92; became a member of the American Historical association in 1888, and of the Modern Language Association of America in 1885. He was an associate editor of the " Historical Dictionary of the English Lan- guage," publishing at Oxford, Eng. (1903). He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1883, and is the author of : A History of the English Language (1874); a series of English grammars (1881-83); a historical reader (1881), and many essays on his- tory, education and literature.

SHEPHERD, William, soldier, representative, was born in Westfield, Mass., Nov. 20, 1737 ; son of Deacon John and Elizabeth (Noble) Shepherd. He enlisted in the army about 1754, and served under General Amherst in the French and Indian war, receiving the commissions of lieutenant in 1758 and captain in 1759. In April, 1775, he joined the patriot troops at Cambridge ; was com- missioned lieutenant in Col. Timothy Danielson's regiment, and was advanced to the rank of colo- nel in December, 1776. He took part in the re- treat from Long Island in 1777 ; was commis- sioned a general under Lafayette in 1780, and