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ward transferred to tin- chair of the Theory and Prac- 

 tice of Medicine ; iilll ill IST'J '74 was President of the 

 .Ma.-.-achii>eii-, .Me. Heal Society. In l.vi"> he founded 

 tin- rhmvli >!' the Ad\cnt, in is.V; established tin; 

 widely known Si. 1'mil's School in Concord, N. II., 

 ainl for nearly lil'ty years had been u delegate to the 

 various conventions of his ( 'hurch. 



Shepard. Elliott Fitch, lawyer, born in Jamestown, 

 N. \ ., June :.'.>, IN.;!; died in New York city, March 

 _'J, iv.uj. He was a son of Fitch Shcpard, u bunker 

 uad 1'resident of the National Hunk-note Company, 

 received his i>reliininary education in the Jamestown 

 public, schools, und was graduated at tlie University 

 of the City of New Jfori in lh~>.~>. lie then began 

 studying luw \vitli Judge William Strong, was admit- 

 ted 'to the bar in 1 >.".*., and subse(|iiently formed a 

 partnership with his preceptor. At the beginning of 

 the civil war he received an appointment with the 

 rank of colonel on the stall of Gov. Morgan. He was 

 assigned to recruiting duty, and, besides raising the 

 Tils! New York Volunteers, which became known as 

 the Shepard Rifles, he was instrumental in enlisting 

 nearly 50,000 men for the Union armies. After the 

 war lie practiced law till 1884. During this period he 

 became attorney for the New York Central und Hud- 

 son River Railroad Company ; was active in organiz- 

 ingthe New Y'ork State liar Association, of which he 

 was elected the first president ; labored successfully 

 to secure the passage by the New York Legislature of 

 an act creating a court of arbitration for the settle- 

 ment of purely commercial difficulties out of the reg- 

 ular court* ; and was appointed by President Hayes 

 United States Attorney for the Southern District of 

 New York, but was not confirmed. He spent 1884-'87 

 in travel in Europe, on his return made a trip to Alas- 

 ka, and in 1888 became proprietor and editor of the 

 "Mail and Express" newspaper. In the manage- 

 ment of this newspaper, which he sought to make a 

 clean and highly moral periodical for Christian fami- 

 lies, he indulged in a number of peculiarities, such as 

 printing a text from the Bible daily at the head of 

 the editorial pa_-v, spelling Rome, Roma, and Sunday, 

 Sonday, and bitterly assailing all that concerned the 

 Roman Catholic Church. He also opposed all Sun- 

 dav travel and traffic, and, securing the control of the 

 Fifth Avenue stage line, persistently refused to allow 

 a stage to be run on the Sabbath, though the line 

 was operated at a heavy annual loss to him. Col. 

 Shepard married in 1868 the eldest daughter of Wil- 

 liam H. Vandcrbilt, who received from her father an 

 inheritance of several million dollars. He was ex- 

 ceedingly generous in life to charitable and religious 

 institutions, and bequeathed $100,000 to the trustees 

 of the Presbyterv of New York for its general evan- 

 gelical work* and also $50,000 for the special benefit of 

 the Seventh Presbyterian Church in New York city 

 and $100,000 to St Paul's Institute in Tarsus, Asia 

 Minor. He also directed that his interests in the 

 u Mail and Express '' and the stage line be retained 

 as long as those corporations refrained from work of 

 any kind on Sunday, and he stipulated that should 

 his trustees dispose of those interests it should be 

 only on the condition that the purchasers should 

 never operate the properties on that day. 



Shipman, George E., physician, born in New York 

 city, March 4, 1820;die"d in Chicago, 111., Jan. 20, 

 1893. He was graduated at the University of the 

 City of New York in 1839; took his medical course 

 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; and, 

 after practicing in Pcoria, settled in Chicago in 1846. 

 At that time there were not more than half a dozen 

 regular practicing physicians of the homoeopathic 

 school west, of Buffalo, and when the homoeopaths 

 began to gain in number in his section he was active 

 in oixMni/inir them into local societies. In 1851 he 

 aided in the formation of the Western Homoeopathic 

 Association; in Is.Vl established the first honuBOpath- 

 ic hospital in Chicago; in 18f>.~> became an incorpora- 

 tor and one of the first trustees of Hahnemann Col- 

 lege, and afterward its Professor of Materia Medica 

 and Therapeutics; and in 1857 was appointed u mem- 



ber of the homo-opaline board, which was permitted 

 l'\ tin- city council to attend the patient* in the new 

 city hospital. In ls?l he established the Foundling* 1 

 Hume uf his own expense, and conducted it till its in- 

 corporation, when he became its superintendent. To 

 this charity he gave the remainder of his life. 



Smith, Edmund Kirby, military officer, born in St. 

 Augustine, Fla., May 16, 1824; died in Sewanee, 

 'lenn., March :>.s, 1893. lie was a son of Joseph 

 Lee Smith, the first presiding judge of the United 

 States District Court tor Florida, and was graduated 

 at West Point in 

 1845. He entered 

 the army as a brevet 

 J'l lieutenant in the 



."itli United Mates. 



Infantry, then un- 

 der Gen. Taylor in 

 Mexico; took part 

 in the battles of 

 Palo Alto and Re- 

 saca de la Palma; 

 was promoted 2d 

 lieutenant, and as- 

 signed to the 7th 

 Infantry, in which 

 he distinguished 

 himself in the tak- 

 ing of Monterey ; 

 and received tne 

 brevet of 1st lieu- 

 tenant for bravery at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, 

 and of captain for Contreras. In 1849-'52 he was As- 

 sistant Professor of Mathematics in the United States 

 Military Academy ; in 1855 was promoted captain in 

 the 2d United States Cavalry; on May 12, 1859, was 

 severally wounded in a battle with the Comanche 

 Indians in Texas; and in 1861 was promoted major, 

 was thanked for his services against the Indians by 

 the Legislature of Texas, and, on the secession of 

 Florida, resigned his commission in the army. He 

 immediately ottered his services to the Confederate 

 authorities; was commissioned a colonel of cavalry ; 

 and was promoted brigadier-general, June 17, 1861 ; 

 major-general, Oct. 11 following; lieutenant-general, 

 Oct. 9, 1862; and general, Feb. 19, 1864. He was first 

 assigned to duty under Gen. Johnston at Harper's 

 Ferry, and at Manassas, or the first Bull Run, was 

 severely wounded. In February, 1862, he was placed 

 in command of the Confederate forces in the neigh- 

 borhood of Cumberland Gap, and in the following 

 summer led the advance of Gen. Bragg's army in the 

 Kentucky campaign, inarching through the gaps in the 

 Cumberland mountains, and coming upon the Federal 

 army under Gen. William Nelson, near Richmond, 

 Ky., on Aug. 29. On the following day he gave bat- 

 tle to the Federal troops near Mount Zion Church, 6 

 miles from Richmond, and defeated them, and when 

 Gen. Nelson retreated to Richmond, Gen. Smith made 

 another and successful attack. Gen. Smith then 

 pushed forward, having planned to attack Cincin- 

 nati, but when within easy marching distance of 

 that city he failed to receive the support from Gen. 

 Bragg that he had expected, and, retiring, directed 

 his march to Frankfort, where he arrived prior to 

 Gen. Bragtr. Early in January, 1863, he was sum- 

 moned to Richmond, Va., owing to recent changes 

 made in army commands, and was assigned to the 

 command of the department west of the Mississippi, 

 with headquarters in Alexandria, La. He there, 

 under instructions, organized a government for the 

 territory of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and the In- 

 dian Territory; shipped large quantities of cotton to 

 Europe, and imported foreign machinery, by running 

 the blockade at Galvoston; and did much to develop 

 the mining and manufacturing resources of that sec- 

 tion. In the latter part of 1868 and the early part of 

 IM.I his chief duty was to resist the advances of 

 Gen. Hanks, whom he defeated in April, 1*<'4, while 

 on his Red river campaign. In May, IM;*, Gen. 

 Smith surrendered his army, the last of all the Con- 



