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serred until the end of the war. He was ordered out to put down Shays's insurrection in 1786, and commanded the troops at thcSpriiigfudd arsenal. He was a presidential elector in 1789 and 1792; a member of the executive council of Massachu- setts. 1792-96; a representative in the Otli, 0th and 7th congresses, 1797-1802, and was appointed a state commissioner to treat with the Penobscot Jndians and a U.S. commissioner to treat with the Six Nations. He was married to Sarah, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Root) Dewey, of Westfield. He died at Westfield, Nov. 16, 1817.

SHEPLEY, Ether, senator, was born in Groton, Mass., Nov. 2,1789; son of Jolm and ^lary (Gibson) Therlow Shcple. and a grandson of Jolin and Abigail (Green) Sheple. He was fitted for college at Groton academy; and grad- uated at Dartmouth. A.B., 1811, A.M., 1814. He was admitted to the bar in 1814, engaged in practice at Saco, Maine, in July, 1814, and was married June 10, 1816, to Anne, daughter of George and Anne (Harback) Foster of Hanover, N.H. He represented Saco in the Massachusetts legislature in 1819, where he advocated the sep- aration of the district of Maine from Massa- chusetts; was a delegate to the first Maine con- stitutional convention in 1820. and was appointed U.S. district attorney for the district court of Maine, serving 1821-32. He was elected to the U.S. senate from Maine as a Democrat serving 1833-36, wlien lie supported the administration of President Jackson. He resigned in 1836 and re- moved to Portland, Me.; was a justice of the State supreme court, 1836-48; and chief justice, 1848-55. He was an overseer of Bowdoin college, 1821-29, and a trustee of that institution, 1829- 66; received the degree LL.D. from Waterville (now Colby) college in 1842, and from Dartmouth college in 1845. He publislied The Revised Sta- tutes of Maine (1857); Speech in Congress on the Removal of the Deposits (1857), and liis decisions while on the supreme court filled twenty-six volumes of reports. He died in Portland, Me., Jan. 15, 1877.

SHEPLEY, George Foster, soldier, was born in Saco. Maine. Jan. 1, 1819; son of Judge Ether and Anne (Foster) Shepley. He was graduated at Darmouth college, A.B., 1837; fitted for the profession of law under his father and at the Dane law school, Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was married July 24, 1844, to Lucy Anne Hayes of Bangor, Maine. He practised law in Bangor, 1840-78; was U.S. attorney for the district of Maine, 1848-49 and 1853-61; a delegate at large to the Democratic national convention of 1860, entered the U.S. volunteer army as colonel, 12th Maine infantry, in 1S61; and accompanied Gen. Benjamin F. Butler to New Orleans, La., where he acted as

commander of a brigade at Ship Island and com- manded the 3d brigade at the capture of New Orleans. He served as military commandant and acting mayor of New Orleans until June 2. 18C2, as military governor of Louisiana from tli:it date until 1864 and was promoted brigadier-gen- eral of volunteers, July, 1862. He was transferred to (he militaiy district of Eastern Virginia as commandant in 1864, served as chief on the staff of Gen. Godfrey Weitzel and temporarily commanded the 25th army corps. He became military governor of Richmond, Va., April 3, 1865, resigned from the army to take effect July 1, 1865; resumed practice in Portland, and was U.S. judge for the 1st judicial circuit of Maine, 1869-78. He received the degree LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1878. His decisions are em- bodied in the '• Reports " of Jabez S. Holmes (1877). He died in Portland, Me., July 30, 1878.

SHEPPARD, John Levi, representative, was born at Bluffton, Ala., April 13, 1854; son of John Levi and Amanda (Morris) Sheppard; and a descendant of the Sheppards of the Carolinas. About 1859 his mother removed to Morris county, Texas, where he attended the public schools. He was married, Dec. 18, 1873, to Alice, daughter of Richard Benson Blake and Nancy (Peters) Eddins of Monterey, Caddo Parish, La. He began the practice of law in Daingerfield, Texas, 1879; served as district attorney of the fifth judicial district, 1882-88, and as district judge of the same district, 1886-96. In 1896 he retired from the bench and again took up the practice of law. He was temporary chairman of the Democratic state convention, 1892; was delegate to the Bimetallic convention at Chicago, 1893, where the first important movements for free silver originated, and was delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago, 1896, and was later Texas member of the presidential notifica- tion committee at New York, August, 1896. He was Democratic representative from the 4th Texas district to the 56tli and 57th congresses, 1899-1902, and served on the committee on Pacific railroads. Upon his death, his son, Morris Shep- pard, was elected to complete his term and was re-elected to the 58th congress in November, 1902. Representative John Levi Slieppard died in Texarkana, Texas, Oct. 11. 1902.

SHERBUNE, John Samuel, jurist, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1757; son of John and Elizabeth (Moffat) Sherbune. He" was grad- uated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1776, A.M., 1779; was unsuccessful as a mercliant, and became a volun- teer aid to Gen. William Whipple in 1778. He rose to the rank of brigade major of staff and lost his leg in the skirmish at Butt Hill, R.I., Aug. 29, 1778. He studied law under John Pick- ering of Portsmouth and engaged in practice