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SHOUP, George Laird, senator, was born at Kittanniug, Pa., June 15, 1836; a descendant of German ancestors, who settled in Pennsylvania and served in the wars of the Revolution and 1812. He was educated in the public schools of Freeport and Slatelick, Pa., engaged in stock- farming near Galesburg, 111., 1852-o9 ; in mining and mercantile pursuits in Colorado, 1859-61 ; joined a conipanj' of Independent Scouts of Col- orado volunteers in 1861 ; served in New Mexico and Colorado, 1862-63 ; rose to the rank of colonel, third Colorado cavalry, September, 1864 ; and was granted leave of absence for thirtj' days in 1864 to attend the state constitutional convention. He established stores at Virginia City, Mont., and at Salmon City, Ida., 1866. He frequently declined the position of territorial delegate in congress ; was a representative in the 8th and 10th sessions of the territorial legislature and was delegate to the Republican national convention of 1880 ; a member of the Republican national committee, 1880-84, and again in 1888 ; U.S. com- missioner for Idaho at the exposition at New Orleans, La., 1884-85; governor of Idaho Ter- ritory, 1889-90 ; the' first governor of the state of Idaho from October, 1890, and a Republican U.S. senator from Dec. 29, 1890, to March 3, 1901. He was defeated for re-election in 1900 by Fred T. Du- bois, Silver Republican, supported by Democrats and Populists.

SHOWALTER, Joseph Baltzell, represent- ative, was born near Sniithlield, Pa., Feb. 11, 1851 ; son of Levi and Elizabeth (Baltzell) Sho- walter ; grandson of John and Sarah (Bowers) Sho waiter, and a descendant of Oolrich Showalter, of Germany, who landed in America. 1751, and settled in Lancaster county. Pa., and Rocking- ham county, Va. He was educated in the public schools and at George's Creek academy ; was mar- ried, March 25, 1879, to Ella M., daughter of David McKee ; taught school for six j'ears in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Illi- nois ; engaged in the oil business in Butler count}% Pa., where he owned extensive petroleum and natural gas interests ; studied in Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn ; was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Balti- more ; practised medicine for several years at Chicora, Pa. ; was a member of the Peimsylvania house of representatives, 1886-88, and was elected to the state senate, 1888-92, where he secured the passage of the medical examiners' bill and other important measures, one of which was his found- ing the home for tlie training in speech of deaf children under school age in Philadelphia, Pa., and was made a trustee in that institution at its organization. He ^.^as a Republican representa- tive from the twenty-fifth Pennsylvania district in the 55th, 56th, and 57th congresses, 1897-1903,

and served on the committees on railways and canals, public buildings and grounds, and labor.

SHRADY, George Frederick, surgeon and editor, was born in New York city, Jan. 14, 1837 ; son of John and Margaret (Beinhauer) Shrady ; grandson of John and Anna Barbara (Appley) Shrady, and of Frederick and Sophia (Ziess) Beinhauer. His paternal great-grandfather, from Baden-Baden, German}^ settled in New York city in 1735. His grandfathers both took part in the Revolutionary war, and his father served in the war of 1812. He attended private schools and the College of the City of New York, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia university), New York city, in 1858, and from the surgical division of the New York hospital, in 1859, commencing practice in New York city. He was married first, Dec. 19, 1860, to Mary, daughter of John and Catharine (Osterhoudt) Lewis, of New York city, who died in 1883 ; and he was married secondly. Dec. 19, 1888, to Hester Ellen, daughter of :\Iartin and Lydia (Elmendorf) Cantine, of Ulster county, N.Y. Dr. Shrady served as acting assistant sur- geon to the U. S. army, Central Park Hospital, New York city, and on the battlefield during the civil war ; edited the American Medical Times, 1860-64, and was editorial founder of the Medical Record, and its editor-in-chief from 1806. He at- tended President Grant in his final illness as con- sulting surgeon ; was consulting surgeon in the case of President Garfield in 1881, and also by cable in the case of Emperor Frederick, of Ger- many, in 1888. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Yale, in 1869. He was attending and consulting surgeon in several of the New York hospitals ; a trustee of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, at Pough- keepsie, N.Y. ; a fellow of the American and New- York academies of medicine ; secretary of the New York Pathological society, 1861-79, and its: president in 1883-84 ; president of the Practi- tioners' Society of New York, 1886-87, and of the American Medical Editors' association, 1881. and a member of various national, state, and county societies. He is the author of : Pine Ridge Papers- in the Medical Record (1879), and various papers on subjects relating to his profession, contrib- uted to popular magazines and medical period- icals. He was largely instrumental in his edi- torial work in reconciling merely doctrinal dif- ferences in medical practice and was foremost in advocating freedom of consultations with mem- bers of the different legally recognized schools of medicine.

SHRADY, Henry Merwin, sculptor, was born in New York city, Oct. 24. 1871 ; son of Dr. George Frederick (q.v.) and Mary (Lewis) Shrady. He was graduated from Columbia university, A.B.,