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tary of the interior appointed him head forest ranger in the Sierra Reserve, Cal. He was col- laborator for California of the U.S. division of forestry, 1899-1900; in 1898 became a collaborator of Bailey's '• Cyclopfedia of American Horticul- ture" (4 vols. ,1900-1902). and is the author of: Pacific Rural Handbook (1879); Load Laws of Mining Districts (1884): Mining Camps (1885); Cooperation on the Pacific Coast (1888); Stor7j of a Mine (1897); Intensive Horticulture in Califor- nia (1901): Recent Outdoor Literature (1902); also of many reports and pamphlets published by the Agricultural department of the University of California (1890-1902), and numerous magazine articles.

SHINN, George Wolfe, clergyman, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 14, 1839; son of William Hooton and Sarah (Wolfe) Shinn; grandson of Isaac and Martha (Jones) Shinn. and of George and Keturah (King) Wolfe. He attended city schools, the Virginia Theological seminary and the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal church in Philadelphia, where he was graduated, 1863. He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1864; was assistant at St. Paul's; rector of the Church of Our Saviour, Philadelphia; of Trinity church, Shamokin, Pa.; of St. Paul's, Lock Haven. Pa., 1SC7; of St. Luke's, Troy, N.Y.; head master of St. Paul's school, Troy, N.Y., 1871, and in 1875 became rector of Grace church, Newton, Mass. He was for many years editor of the Teachers' Assistant and of Whittaker's Series of Sunday-school Leaflets. He was married, Sept. 3, 1863, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Rachel (Dougherty) Mills, of Philadelphia, Pa. He be- came prominently connected with the Actors Church Alliance in 1900, and was elected a chap- lain of the organization and an honorary vice- president, and in 1902 became president of the Bos- ton Chapter alliance. He organized the Ministers' union of Newton. 1896, of which he was the presi- dent in 1903. He was a member of the Newton school board for twelve years. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from William and Mary college in 1883. His published books include: Manual of Instruction upon the Collects, Epistles and Gospels for the Christian Year (1874); Man- ual of the Prayer Book (1875); Manual of Church History (1876); Stories for the Happy Days of Chrvitnias Time (1879); Kings Hand-Book of Notable Episcopal Cliurches; various magazine articles, and two widely-circulated sermons, The Stage as a Teacher and The Tlieatre as a Place of Amusement, vrith other pamphlets relating to the relationship of clinrrh and stage.

SHIPMAN, Nathaniel, jurist, was born in Southbury, Conn.. Aug. 22, 1828; son of the Rev. Thomas Leffingwell and Mary (Deming)Shipman; grandson of Nathaniel and Abigail (Coit) Ship-

man, and of David and Abigail (Champion) Dem- ing, and a descendant of Henry Champion, of Saybrook and Lyme. Conn., who emigrated from England and settled in Saybrook as early as 1047. He received his preparatory education in Norwich and in Plainfield, Conn.; was graduated from Yale college, A. B., 1848; A.M., 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began prac- tice in Hartford, Conn., where he was married. May 25, 1859, to Mary Caroline, daughter of David F. and Anne (Seymour) Robinson, of Hartford. Conn. He was judge of the U.S. district court of Connecticut, 1873-92, and of the second circuit of the U.S. circuit court, 1892-1902, resigning in the latter year on account of failing health. Judge Shipman received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1884, and in 1889 became a lecturer in the university on jurisdiction of and procedure in the L'niteil States courts.

SHIPMAN, William Davis, jurist, was bora in Chester, Conn., Dec. 29, 1818. He worked on a farm, 1832-41; taught school at Springfield, N.J., 1841-42; studied law at Haddam, Conn.; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and practised in Hartford, Conn.; was elected judge of the probate court in 1852; a representative in the state legisla- tui-e in 1853, and was appointed U.S. district at- torney for Connecticut in July, 1853, being re- elected in 1856 for the term expiring in 1859. He was U.S. district judge of Connecticut. 18G0-73; and removed to New York in 1873, where he re- sumed his law practice until 1895. He was pro- fessor of jurisprudence at Trinity college. Conn., 1871-74, and received from that institution the honorarj' degree of A.M. in 1858, and that of LL.D. in 1871. He died in Astoria, L.I., N.Y., Sept. 24, 1898.

SHIPP, Albert Micajah, educator, was born in Stokes county, N.C., Jan. 15, 1819. He was grad- uated from the University of Nortli Carolina. A.B., 1840, A.M., 1845. In 1841 he was made a member of the South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal chui-ch, and was successively pastor at Charleston, Columbia, Sumter and Cheraw, S.C.,and at Fayette ville. N.C. He was president of the Greensboro Female college. Greensboro, N.C, 1848-50; professor of history in the University of North Carolina, 1849-.59. and professor of French there, 1850-53. He declined the chair of English literature in Wofford college. Spartanburg, S.C, in 1853, and was its president. 1859-72. The endowment fund of the college was decreased by the losses of the civil war, but Pres- ident Shipp made vigorous efforts in 1863 and 1869 to recover and increase it. In 1866 Wofford college was endowed with a chair of history and Biblical literature, and later with a school of divinity, which was put in charge of President Shipp. He was professor of exegetical theology