SHAWENEGAN FALLS 



SHEBOYGAN 



droll sayings and quaint moral lectures, he was 

 very successful. In 1866 his first book, Sayings 

 oj "Josh Billings," was published, and had a 

 sale of many thousand copies. This was fol- 

 lowed by Every Boddy's Friend (1876), Josh 

 Billings' Trump Kards (1877), Josh Billings' 

 Spice Box (1881) and others along that line, 

 and he also published yearly Josh Billings' 

 Farmers' Allminax. 



SHAWENEGAN, shaw'enegan, FALLS, a 

 town in Saint Maurice County, Quebec, noted 

 for the near-by falls of the Saint Maurice River 

 and for the aluminum and manganese manu- 

 factured there. Shawenegan Falls is on the 

 west bank of the Saint Maurice River, and on 

 the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern 

 railways. By rail it is twenty-one miles north- 

 west of Three Rivers, 116 miles northeast of 

 Montreal and ninety-eight miles southwest of 

 Quebec. The falls of the Saint Maurice are 

 165 feet high and are capable of developing 

 200,000 horse power. In addition to aluminum 

 and manganese, the town's chief products are 

 paper, wood pulp and carbide. Population in 

 1911, 4,265; in 1916, estimated, 5,000. 



SHAWNEE, shawne', an Indian tribe of the 

 Algonquian family. The Shawnee were first 

 known to white men about 1670, when they 

 were living along the Savannah River in South 

 Carolina. Later they spread out into Ten- 

 nessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio. 

 They were a strong, warlike tribe, superior in 

 intellect, and very courageous. Tecumseh, 

 their most celebrated chief, fiercely opposed 

 the advance of white settlers upon Indian soil 

 and harassed them continually. In 1812 he led 

 the Shawnee against the Americans, but his 

 death dispirited his people, and their later his- 

 tory is a record of treaties and movements 

 westward. The remnant of the tribe, number- 

 ing about 1,400 persons, lives in Oklahoma. 

 See TECUMSEH. 



SHAWNEE, OKLA., a city in Pottawatomie 

 County, centrally located in the state, thirty- 

 seven miles southeast of Oklahoma City and 

 448 miles west of Memphis, Tenn. It is on the 

 North Canadian River, and on the Atchison, 

 Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island 

 & Pacific, both of which have shops here, and 

 the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroads. The 

 population, which was 12,474 in 1910, had in- 

 creased to 18,138 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 

 The area of the city is more than two square 

 miles. 



The principal features of Shawnee are the 

 Baptist and Catholic universities, the city hall, 



a convention hall, a $125,000 high school, Car- 

 negie Library, city hospital and several at- 

 tractive parks. In the surrounding agricultural 

 country corn, alfalfa and cotton are the leading 

 crops. Oil has been discovered in paying 

 quantities near the city. Pesides its railroad 

 shops, Shawnee has cotton gins, a milling com- 

 pany doing an annual business worth $2,000,000, 

 and a garment factory whose annual produc- 

 tion is valued at $300,000. The place was set- 

 tled in 1895 and the next year became a city. 



SHAYS' REBELLION, an uprising in 1786- 

 1787 in Western Massachusetts, based upon the 

 discontent over financial conditions at the- close 

 of the Revolutionary War. Excessive salaries 

 of office holders, abuses in the administration 

 and the exorbitant land taxation were the prin- 

 cipal grievances. About 600 insurgents, under 

 Daniel Shays, gathered at Springfield in Sep- 

 tember, 1786, and intimidated the supreme 

 court, which adjourned after three days. Dis- 

 turbances continued, and on January 25, 1787, 

 Shays led an army of 2,000 men against the 

 Federal arsenal at Springfield. The state mili- 

 tia soon overwhelmed them, and by the end 

 of February the revolt was quelled. Fourteen 

 of the ringleaders were sentenced to death, but 

 they were later pardoned by the governor of 

 Massachusetts, John Hancock. 



SHEBOY'GAN, Wis., an important shipping 

 point and industrial center, and the county seat 

 of Sheboygan County, is situated on Lake 

 Michigan, at the point where it receives the 

 waters of Sheboygan River. Manitowoc is 

 twenty-eight miles north, Milwaukee is fifty- 

 two miles south, and Chicago is eighty-four 

 miles farther south. Steamers communicate 

 with the principal lake ports and there is regu- 

 lar service between Chicago, Milwaukee and 

 Sheboygan. The Chicago & North Western 

 Railway provides inland transportation and an 

 electric line extends to Elkhart Lake, a summer 

 resort in the vicinity. Sheboygan was settled 

 in 1835, was incorporated as a village in 1846 

 and as a city in 1853. Germans comprise the 

 greater part of the population, which had in- 

 creased from 26,398 in 1910 to 28,559 (Federal 

 estimate) by 1916. The area of the city is 

 nearly five square miles. 



Sheboygan is the commercial center for a 

 large agricultural and dairying region. There 

 are coal and salt docks, and several big ware- 

 houses, five of them being for cheese alone. 

 The city is noted for its extensive manufacture 

 of chairs, about 2,000 people being employed 

 in the five factories. Tanneries, enameling 



