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he took command, March 7, 1863. He served under Banks and Fremont, in the Shenandoah valley ; engaged Ashby's cavalry in front of Winchester, March 23, 1863 ; commanded the Federal forces at Kernstown, at the opening of the battle, March 23, 1863, where he was severely wounded, and the command devolved on Gen. Nathan Kimball. On recovering from his wounds, he resumed command of his division and was de- feated by Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, at Port Re- public, June 9, 1863 ; withdrew to Front Royal, where he arrived on the 16th and then reported to General McClellan at Harrison's Landing, July 2. 1863, just as the Army of the Potomac had been ordered to evacuate the Peninsula and join Pope's army at Manassas. He resigned his com- mission, March 38, 1863, and returned to Cali- fornia. He removed to CarroUton, Mo. ; practised law and was a representative in the state legis- lature in 1874 and 1879. He died in Ottumwa, Iowa. June 1, 1879.

SHIELDS, Patrick Henry, jurist, was born in Pittsylvania county, Va., May 16, 1773; son of James and Elizabeth (Graham) Shields ; grandson of Thomas and Anne (Bayard) Shields, and a de- scendant of Archibald Shields, who settled in Maryland in 1735. He attended Hampden Sid- ney college ; studied law at William and Mary college, and was married, Dec. 6, 1798, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Clement Nance, and his wife Mary, of eastern Virginia. He practised law in Lexington, Ky., 1801-05, and later in Har- rison county, Indiana Territory'. He was ap- pointed judge of Harrison county in 1808, and held several other judicial positions in the state ; served in the Indian wars in the northwestern territory under William Henry Harrison and was especially prominent as a mounted rifleman at the battle of Tippecanoe, in 1811. He was a dele- gate to the first state constitutional convention, held at Corydon, Ind., in 1816. -He died in New Albany, Ind., June 6, 1848.

SHILLABER, Benjamin Penhallow, humorist, was born at Portsmouth. N.H., July 13, 1814; son of William and Sarah Leonard (Sawyer) Shillaber, and grandson of Jonathan and Eunice (Cutts) Sawyer. He attended the common schools and Phillips academy at Exeter, N.H.; served an apprenticeship in a printer's office at Dover, N.H., 1839-30, and was employed in several offices in Boston, Mass., 1833-37, and in Demerara, British Guiana, 1837-39. He was married. May 85, 1838, to Ann Tappan de Rochemont, and worked on the Boston Post as an assistant editor, 1840-50. He wrote under the pen name of " Mrs. Partington," and about 1847 began a series of stories dealing with her experiences, which made him famous as a humorist. In 1850 he established the Carpet Bag, a humorous publication, and had as his asso-

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ciate editor Charles G. Halpine, " Miles O'Reilly," Charles F. Browne, " Artemus Ward," being a contributor. The paper was short-lived. In 1853 Mr. Shillaber resumed his position with the Bos- ton Post, working on it, 1853-56, and on the Satur- day Evening Gazette, 1856-66. In 1854 a New York publisher of- ered him $3000 and a generous royalty for a collection of his humorous writings, which were brought out in an illustrated volume as "The Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington," and

when the publishers handed him a check for $3000 they notified him that 30,000 copies had been ordered before publication. The success of his

books and lectures enabled him to retire from newspaper work in 1866, and he made his liome and workshop in Chelsea, Mass. Besides J7ie Life and Saijings of Mrs. Partington (1853), he is the author of : Mrs. Partington's Carpet Bag of Fun (n.d.); Rhymes With Reason and Without (1855); Knitting Work (1857); Partingtonian Patch-work (1873); Lines in Pleasant Places (1875); Ike and His Friends (1875); Cruises with Captain Bob (1881); Tlie Double-runner Club (1883), and Wide-Swathe verses, (1882). He died in Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 25. 1890.

SHINN, Charles Howard, author, was born in Austin, Texas, April 39, 1853 ; son of James and Lucy Ellen (Clark) Shinn ; grandson of John and Mary (Lucas) Shinn, and of Abraham and Mili- cent (Washburn) Clark, and a descendant of John Shinn, one of the proprietaries of New Jer- sey colony, and on the mother's side of Mary Chilton, of the Mayfloiver. He was brought up on a farm ; attended the public schools ; was a student at the Universitj' of California, and was a post-graduate student at Johns Hopkins uni- versity, 1883-84, taking also the A.B. degree there. He was editor of the San Francisco Bid- letin, and special contributor to the New York Post, Times, Tribune, Outlook, etc., after 1879. He taught school, 1874-79, and was business man- ager of the Overland Monthly. 1884-89. He was married, July 31, 1888, to Julia Charlotte, daugh- ter of Asher and Sarah (Worth) Tyler, of Oak- land, Cal. He was inspector of the California Agricultural Experiment stations under the aus- pices of the University of California, 1890-1902, resigning to become as pecial agent of the U.S. bureau of forestry. In October, 1902, the secre-