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and Nicaragua enterprises. ISTO-Tl; with the department of equipment ami recruiting of the navy, IST.VTS. and was commissioned commander, 1876. In 1ST9-80 he was engaged in reinstating trade in Africa and the East Indies, and on the same voyage lie represented the United States in the Liberian boundary discussion; also in securing safety to Americans in Korea, and in 1S81, in Pekin. Cliina. he procured the treaty proclaiming Korea's independence. His next duties were in reorganizing the navy, in designing the first steel cruiser and in superintending the naval observa- tory. He was promoted rear-admiral, 1883, and was retired, Feb. 21, 1884. His son. Mason Abercrombie Shufeldt, a U.S. naval officer (born in New York cit}', 1852; died in Cape Town, Feb- ruary. 189-2), spent most of his service in South Africii. Admiral Shufeldt died in Washington, D.C.. Nov. 7, 1?95.

SHULZE, John Andrew, governor of Pennsyl- vania, was born in Tulpehocken, Berks county, Pa., July 19. 1773; son of the Rev. Christopher Em- anuel and Eve Elizabeth (Muhlenberg) Schultze, and grandson of Dr. Henry Melchior Muhlen- berg. His father, who was a native of Saxony, settled in Philadelphia, Pa., as a missionary of the German Lutheran church in 17G5. He was educated in Lancaster. Pa., and under the Rev. Mr. iMelsheimer in York county; completed a classical course in New Y''ork city, where he was ' fitted for the Lutheran ministry by his uncie Dr. Kunze. He was ordained in 1796. was pastor of various congregations in Berks county, Pa., 1796- 1802, and engaged in business as a merchant in Myerstown, Pa., where he accumulated a con- siderable fortune. He represented Dauphin county in the state legislature, 1806-09, declined the office of sui-veyor-general of the state in 1813, and served as clerk in the sessions court of Le- banon county, 1813-20. He represented Lebanon county in the state legislature in 1821; was a state senator. 1822-23, and governor of Pennsyl- vania, 1823-29. He retired in 1830, and engaged in farming, was a delegate to the "Whig national convention at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1839, and a vice-president of that body. He was an elector- at-large from Pennsylvania in 1841, voting for Harrison and Tyler. He removed to Lancaster, Pa., in 1S40. where he died. Nov. 18, 18.52.

SHUMWAY, Henry Cotton, portrait painter, was born in Middletown, Conn., July 4, 1807. He attended the public schools; served as a clerk in his father's office until his twenty-first birthday, and at an early age produced pencil sketches, mostly portraits, of considerable promise. He attended the antique and life classes of the National Academy of Design in New York city, 1828-29: and established himself as a painter of miniature portraits on ivr.ry in New York city in

1830, making transient visits to Washington Hartford, and other cities. About 1800 he en- gaged as a photographer in New York city, in addition to his miniature painting, in which he had gained a reputation that gave him the sum of $300 for a portrait upon five-inch ivory. He was a member of tl>o New York state militia for thirty-five years: and aided in organizing the 7th New York regiment in which he was captain twenty-eight years. He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1831. and an Academician in 1832, and received a gold palette for the best miniature portrait in the art exhibi- tion of the New York state fair in 1844. The subjects of his many portraits include: Henry Clay, Judge Storrs. Colonel Wadsworth. Daniel Webster, members of the Trumbull family, and a large head of Napoleon IIL, from life (1838). He died in New York city. May 6, 1884.

SHUNK, Francis Rawn, governor of Pennsyl- vania, was born at the Trappe, Montgomery county, Pa., Aug. 7, 178S; son of John and Elizabeth (Rawn) Sliunk; grandson of Francis and great-grandson of Caspar Shunck. who immi- grated fiom the palatinate of the Rhine, Germany, about 1715, and of Caspar Rawn, a native of the same palatinate. He was employed on his father's farm from early boy- hood: was largely self-edu- cated, attended a local school in the Trappe and taught school, 1803-12. at the same pursuing a course of study and working at home in the summer. He was clerk to Andrew Porter, surveyor-general of Pennsylvania, at Har- risburg, 1812-14; studied law under Thomas Elder of that city, and served in the defences of Balti- more, Md., in 1814. He was admitted to the bar in 1816; was an assistant and subsequently chief clerk of the state house of representatives. 1822-29; secretary of the board of canal commissioners of Pennsylvania; and secretary of state under Gov- ernor Porter, 183&-42. He practised law in Pitts- burg, Pa., 1842-44, and was elected Democratic governor of Pennsylvania for two terms, serving from 1845 to July 9, 1848, when he resigned on ac- count of ill health. He was married, Dec. 14, 1820, to Jane, daughter of William Findlay, governor of Pennsylvania, and Agnes Irwin, both of Franklin county, Pa. Their son, William Findlay Shunk, was chief engineer of the elevated roads. New Y'ork and Brooklyn, and author of: "A Prac- tical Treatise on Railway Curves " (1854); "The Field Engineer" (1881), and their grandson. Capt. Francis Rawn Shunk, was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1887, and on July 5, 1898, was assigned to the battalion of engineers. Gov- ernor Shunk died in Harrisburg, Pa., July 30, 1848.