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 SHERWOOD

SHIELDS

SHERWOOD, VViniam Hall, musician, was bornal Lyons. N.Y.. Jan. ol, 1854; son of the Rev. Lyman Hinsdale and Mary (Balis) Sher- wood ; grandson of Judge Lyman and Grace (De\vey) Sherwood, of N.Y., and of John R. Balis ; great-grandst)n of Lemuel Sherwood, a cap- tain in the Revolution. He was tutored during his childiiood by his father and was graduated at the Lyons (N.Y.) musical academy of which his father was founder, and at the Lyons Union school. He made his first appearance as a child, about l&G>'-3. in New York, Pennsylvania, and Canada. He studied under William Mason, Ed- ward Heimburger and Pychowski in the United States and in Europe, 1871-76, with Kullak and Deppe in Berlin, with Richter and Grieg in Leip- zig, and with Liszt in Weimar. He studied organ, musical theory and composition at Stutt- gart, where he become organist in the English church, and later in the English chapel at Berlin. After performing with marked success Beetho- ven's " Emperor Concert " with full orchestra in Berlin, he toured somewhat in Germany, refused various musical offers of the highest standard in Germany and elsewhere and returned to the United States in 1876. He played then with Thomas's orchestra at New Y'ork and at the Phil- adelphia Centennial Exhibition, next with tiie Harvard Musical Association orchestra of Boston and later became director of Sherwood Music School, Chicago. He was married in 1882 to Estelle Florence, daughter of Robert R. and Anna (Elliott) Abrams, of Bro%vnsville, Pa. He was examiner at the conservator}' of Toronto, Canada, and director of the piano department of the Chautauqua New York assembly (Institution). He helped to found the American College of Mu- sicians, and became a member of numerous mu- sical organizations, composer of piano music, editor of various works for the piano, and the autiior of : Music Study and Interpretive Tech- nique (1903).

SHIELDS, Charles Woodruff, educator, was born in New Alljany, Ind., April 4, 1825 ; son of James Read and Hannah (Woodruff) Shields, and grandson of Patrick Henry Shields (q.v.). He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1844, A.M., 1847, and at the Princeton Theolo- gical seminary in 1848, was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick, N.J., in 1848, and was ordained by the presbytery of Long Is- land, Nov. 8, 1849. He was pastor of the church at Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., 1849-50, of the Second Presbyterian church at Philadelphia, Pa., 1850-65 ; was professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion in the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 1866-1903 (serving also as professor of history, 1869-82). and was made j)rofessor emeritus in 1903. He believed in the establishment of an

American Catholic church through the organiza- tion of the Congregational, Presbyterian and Episcopal polities as taken from the New Testa- ment, and used his influence to secure the use of the Presbyterian prayer-book of 1661, for churches that requue a liturgy. He was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church, Dec. 13, 1898. He was twice married : first, Nov. 23, 1848, to Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Bain of Albany, N.Y". ; and secondly, April 2, 1861, to Elizabeth, daughter of John K. Kane, of Phila- delphia, Pa. He received the lionorary degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1861, and that of LL.D. from Columbian university, D.C., in 1878. He is the author of : Tlie Book of Common Prayer as amended by the Presbyteridii Divines (1864); an appendix entitled: Liturgia Expurgata (1864) ; Religion and Science in Rela- tion to Philosophy (1875) ; PJiilosophia Ultima (2 vols., 1877 and 1889) ; TJie Order of the Sciences (1882); Essays on Christian Unity ; The Organic Ajfmity of Presbytery and Episcopacy, essay; The Christian Denominations and the Historic Epis- copate, essay (1892) ; Tlie Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer (1893) ; llie United Churches of the United States, essay (1896) ; The Reformer of Geneva (1898), and The Scientific Evidences of Re- vealed Religion (1900). His complete works were subsequentl}' included in six octavo volumes.

SHIELDS, James, soldier, was born in Dun- gannon, county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1810. He immigrated to the United States in 1826. and began the practice of law in Kaskaskia, 111., in 1832. He was a representative in the state legis- lature, in 1836 ; state auditor, in 1839 ; judge of the supreme court of Illinois, 1843-45, and was commissioner of the general land office, 1845-46. He was appointed brigadier-general in the U.S. A'olunteer army. July 1. 1846, and commanded Illinois volunteers under Generals Taylor, Wool, and Scott. He was brevetted major-general for services at Cerro Gordo, where he was severely wounded ; commanded a brigade in the opera- tions against the City of Mexico, and was again wounded at Chapultepec. He was mustered out of the volunteer service. July 20, 1848 ; was ter- ritorial governor of Oregon, 1848-49, and U.S. senator from Illinois, 1849-55. He removed to Minnesota Territory, in 1855, and upon the adop- tion of the state constitution, Oct. 13, 1857, he was elected with Henry M. Rice as U.S. senator, drawing the short term and serving from May 12, 1858 to March 3, 1859. He removed to California, and engaged in mining until 1861, when he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, Aug. 19, 1861. Upon the death of Frederick W. Lander (q.v.), March 2, 1862. General Sliields was ap- pointed to tiie command of his division, having been ordered to the valley from Washington, and