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SHUBLICK-SIBLEY. 



Indians, and are meeting with sorao success. Voca- 

 bularies have been made from the speech of various 

 bands, but no critical study of the Shoshone lan- 

 guages has vet been made. 



SHUBKICK, WILLIAM BBAKFOKD (1790-1874), 

 rear-admiral, was born at Charleston, S. C., Oct. ."!. 

 I. His father, CoL Thomas Shubrick (1755- 

 ] H >i) had served asaidc to Gens. Greene and Lincoln. 

 WiUlUB, witli his elder brother, John Taylor Shu- 

 brick (1783-1815), left Harvard College to enter the 

 navy in 1800. They served on the Constitution 

 under Stewart and took port in several noted ex- 

 ploits. John was lost at sea while bearing to the 

 United Stares the treaty concluded with Algiers 

 j-i ls|,"j. William had the command of a squad- 

 r>n in tho West Indies in 1838, and in the Pacific in 

 HI", at which time he captured Mazatlan and as- 

 in establishing U. S. authority in California. 

 In 1858 he had command of the Brazilian squadron, 

 and in 1859 conducted the expedition against Para- 

 guay. In 1862 he w.is retired with the rank of 

 rear admiral. He died at Washington, May 27, 

 1874. His brothers, Edward Rutledgo Shubrick 

 (1791-1841) and Irvine Shubrick (1797-1849), were 

 also naval officers. The former attained the rank 

 of captain, and hod command of the Brazilian 

 squadron when he died, March 12, 1844. The lat- 

 ter hod served under Docatur and was captured 

 with him in the President in 1S15. He became 

 commodore in 1841, and died at Philadelphia, April 

 6, 1849. 



SHUFELDT, ROBERT WILSOX, nnv.il officer, was 

 br>rn at Bed Hook, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Feb. 21, 

 Entering the navy as a midshipman, May 11, 

 1839, he had risen to the rank of commander in 1853, 

 but in 1854 he resigned from the navy and was for 

 several years in responsible positions in the mercantile 

 service. He was for two years chief officer on the 

 C.)llins line of Liverpool steam-ships, and thereafter 

 in command of steamers plying between New York 

 and New Orleans. Whan the civil war broke out 

 lie was commander of tho steamer Quaker City on tho 

 New York and Havana line, and during the first year 

 of the rebellion was U. S. consul-general for Cuba, 

 a situation of high importance, which he filled with 

 eminent tact and ability. He resigned this office in 

 18t>! and was appointed commander, his commission 

 ' hack to Novemlrer, 1862. In tho blockade of 

 Ch.irleston he commanded the steam-ship Conemaugh , 

 and took part in the engagements or. Morris Island. 

 I ho was in the Gulf blockading sqmvlron. In 

 18G5-C6 he commanded the flag-ship of the East 

 India fleet, and that of the Mediterranean from 1871 

 to 1873. From 1875 to 1878 he was chief of tho bu- 

 reau of equipment and recruiting, and was commis- 

 sioned commodore in 1876. In 1879-80 he sailed 

 on a special mission to Africa and the East Indies to 

 roport on the best means of reviving American trade 

 with these countries. In 1883 he was advanced to 

 rear-admiral, and retired from the service, Feb. 21, 

 188L While he was on the African expedition ho 

 was presented with u sword by Said Burgas h, Sul- 

 tan of Zanzibar. 



Si \M S- NDIA. 



SIBJjEY. HKXIIT HASTINOS, pioneer, was born at 

 it, Mich., Fob. 20, J811, his father being a 

 ji life of tho Supreme Court of Michigan. He 



ieal education, and for a time studied 

 1 iw. This, however, ho abandoned for mercantile 

 pursuits, becoming first a servant and subsequently 

 a partner of tin' American Fur Company, having its 

 tfttfcMM at Mackinaw anil Fort Snelling. His em- 

 ployment lo.l him to make frequent excursions into 

 the nnexplored regions of the Northwest, in one of 

 which be reached the month of the Minnesota 

 river. He was HO charmed with the country that 

 be fixed his homo at Moudota, thjro erecting for 



himself the first stone honsc within the bounds of 

 hat has since beconi' ol 'Minnesota. Most 



of his time here was devoted to frontier sports. In 

 November, I.MS, he was chosen a delegate to Congress 

 to represent a district cut off from Wisconsin when it 

 was admitted into the Union and had its boundaries 

 fixed. Here he secured the passage of a measure 

 constituting this district, along with a vast ad- 

 ditional tract west of the Mississippi, into the Terri- 

 tory of Minnesota, and from this he was cli eted con- 

 gressional delegate in 1849 and 18~il. In March, 

 1858, it was admitted into the Union as a State, and 

 he was chosen its first governor. When the Sionx 

 inaile their great rising, in liSti'J, he raised and com- 

 manded a \vhito volunteer force which, at the de- 

 cisive battle of Wood Lake (Sept 2:'., iMiJ). broke 

 the power of the hostile savages. For his skill and 

 gallantry Lure he was made brigadier-general of 

 volunteers, and was aftcnxai-d brcvcttcd ; 

 general. During Pres. Grant's administration 

 he was appointed a member of the board of Indian 

 commissioners, and in 1871 was chosen to tho 

 legislature, where he vigorously resisted repudia- 

 tion of the State railroad bonds, and was thus in- 

 strumental in restoring the credit of his State. In 

 1888 Princeton College created him LL. D. Gen. 

 Sibley is president of the chamber of commerce 

 of St. Paul, Minn., of the board of regents of 

 the State university, and of the State historical 

 society. 



SIBLEY, HENRY HOPKINS (1810-1886), general, 

 was born. May 25, 1816, at Natchitoches, La. He 

 graduated at West I'oint in 1838, and was appointed 

 2(1 lieutenant of the Second Dragoons, serving in tho 

 Florida war. Promoted 1st lieutenant in 1840, ho 

 served in tho Everglades expedition against the 8cm- 

 inoles, nnd uctcd as adjutant of his regiment from 

 LM1 to 1840. In 1847he was made captain, and 

 in tho Mexican war, taking part in the siege of Vera 

 Cruz, in the battles of Cerro Gordo, Contrcras, Chu- 

 rn bnsco, Molino del Rey, and the capture of the 

 City of Mexico, and gaining the brevet of major. 

 For several years he served on the Texas frontier 

 ngainst the Indians, ai.d aftei ward in Kansas, during 

 the Free Soil conflict, and in the Utah expedition, 

 and tho Navajo expedition of 1860. On the out- 

 break of the civil war he was in New Mexico, 

 where he was promoted major, May 16, 18C1, but t!.o 

 same day resigned his commission to enter the Con- 

 federate sen-ice, in which lie was maile brigadier- 

 general. Being unable to shake the ullcgim 

 his troops, he raised a brigade of nearly ii, r >(KI men in 

 southwest Texas, nnd at its head left Fort Bliss, 

 January, 18l>'J, to effect the conquest of New Mexico, 

 appearing before Fort Craig on Feb. 16. On the 

 21bt he fought the action of Valvenle with (VI. ]',. 

 11. S. Canby, commander of the fort, which resulted 

 in the withdrawal of the Union troops within its 

 shelter. In March he occupied Albuquerque nnd 

 Santa Ff, but in April he was compelled to evacuate 

 these places and leave the territory for Fort 

 After this lie commanded his bripade under (ienx. 

 Richard Taylor and E. Kirby Smith. At the close 

 of thii war he entered the service of the Khedive of 

 Egypt and took part in the construction of coast and 

 river defences. After a stay of ;"> veins he returned, 

 broken in health, to the United Siatcs, and support- 

 ed himself by lecturing on Egvpt. He died at 

 Fri'dericksburg, Va., Aug. 23, 1886. Gen. Sibley 

 was tho inventorof the tent known by his name and, 

 while in tho U. S. service, raoeftrM letters patent 

 for it, but forfeited his rights by his disloyalty. 

 Af:er his death, a claim for compensation was 

 brought before < l-y friends of his family, 



but it was rejected in February. ISS'.l, and his widow, 

 who is saiil to have always manifested loyalty to tho 

 Union, expired ou receiving the news. 



