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in the Biblical department of Vanderbilt uni- versity, at Nashville, Tenn., 1875-85, and suc- ceeded Dr. Thomas O. Summers as dean and vice- chancellor of the university in 1882. He was a delegate to the general conferences of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, 1850-86, and the originator of Biblical professorships in Methodist colleges. He received the degree of D.D. from Randolph- Macon college in 1839, and that of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1883. At the request of the conference of South Carolina he wrote History of Methodism in South Carolina (1883). He died at Cheraw, S.C, July 27, 1887.

SHIPP, Barnard, author, was born near Natchez, Miss., April 30,1813; son of William Shipp ; grandson of Richard and Sallie (Turner) Shipp, and of Joseph and Winifred (O'Brien) Barnard, and great-grandson of John and Sallie (Johnson) Shipp. His maternal grandfather emigrated from London, England, and settled in the Natchez district, where he purchased a plantation known as the " Elysian Fields." His father moved from Kentucky to Mississippi in 1803 ; became a successful merchant at Natchez ; and resided at Newcastle, Del., 1813-17. Barnard Shipp attended Capt. Alden Partridge's military academy at Norwich, Vt. (afterward Norwich university), until 1837, when he went to Lexing- ton, Ky., and attended the school for boys under the Rev. Benjamin O. Peers. In 1833 he returned to Natchez, and in 1830 removed to Harrisburg, Ky. He attended Yale for a short time, and finally settled in Natchez. He traveled exten- sively in Europe, 1854-57. He began writing verses for the newspapers in 1828, and in 1848 published a small volume called Fame and Other Poems. He is also the author of : The Progress of Freedom (1850); De Soto and Florida, 1513-6S (1881) ; The Indians and Antiquities of America (1897), and a translation of Richelefs French ver- sion of " Garcilasso's Conquest of Florida " from the original Spanish,

SHIPP, Scott, educator, was born at Warren- ton, Va., Aug. 2. 1839 ; son of John and Lucy Blackwell (Scott) Shipp ; grandson of Edmund Shipp. and of Charles Robert and Lucinda (Staunton) Scott. He was educated at Warren Green academy, Va.; at Westminster college, Fulton, Mo., and at the Virginia Military insti- tute, where he was graduated in 1859. He was married, Aug. 19, 1869, to Anne Alexander, daughter of Arthur Alexander and Maria (Scott) Morson, of Richmond, Va. He was subsequently assistant professor of mathematics, 1859-60, and of Latin. 1860-61, at the Virginia Military insti- tute ; lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant- colonel, C.S.A.; and was ordered in 1862 by Con- federate secretary of war to report as comman- dant of cadets at the Virginia Military institute.

He commanded cadets at the battle of New Mar- ket, where he was wounded, and after the war he was admitted to the bar. He was reappointed to the Virginia Military college ; declined the presi- dency of the Agricultural and Mechanical col- lege ; was made a member of the board of visitors of the U.S. Military academy, 1890, and president of the board of visitors of the U.S. Naval acad- emy, 1894, He received the degree of Litt.D., 1888, and that of LL.D. in 1890 from Washington and Lee university, Va.

SHIPPEN, Edward, merchant, was born in Boston, Mass., July 9, 1703 ; son of Joseph and Abigail (Gross) Shippen ; grandson of Edward and Elizabeth (Lybrand) Shippen, and of Thomas Gross. His paternal grandfather came from Yorkshire, England, to Boston, Mass., in 1668; engaged in mercantile pursuits ; joined the Quakers, sharing in their persecutions, and re- moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1693, where he filled several local offices, serving as first mayor of that city, 1701-03. Edward attended the com- mon schools of Boston, engaged in business in partnership with James Logan, and subsequently established the firm of Shippen and Lawrence, fur traders. He was married to Sarah Plumley. He was mayor of Boston, 1744-45, and became judge of the court of common pleas in 1745. He settled at Lancaster, Pa. ; was prothonotary, 1753-88 ; served as paymaster of supplies for the army in Pennsylvania under the crown, for several years ; was chief burgess of Lancaster, and county judge of the province of Pennsyl- vania, He was president of the committee or- ganized to correspond with the Philadelphia com- mittee in 1776, constituted to obtain information regarding the sentiment of the people of Penn- sylvania on British encroachment. He was one of the founders of the College of New Jersey in 1746, and a trustee, 1748-67 ; a founder of the Pennsylvania hospital and the American Philo- sophical society, and financially aided the Phil- adelphia academy, which became the University of Pennsylvania. He died in Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 35, 1781.

SHIPPEN, Edward, jurist, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., Feb. 16, 1739; son of Edward, merchant (q.v.), and Sarah (Plumley) Shippen. He received a liberal education, studied law imder Tench Francis in Philadelphia, 1746-48, and afterward at the Middle Temple, London, England, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1748, He was judge of the admiralty for the province of Pennsylvania, 1753-65 ; one of the committee appointed to check the uprising of the Paxton brothers in 1755. and was prothonotary of the supreme court of the state, 1762-78. He served in the provincial council of Pennsylvania, 1770-75, and by its order, his loyalty being doubted