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on the Board — a board the elder members of which are rightly- 

 regarded as most distinguished men. 



Our beloved associate in his church, professional and edu- 

 cational life had achievements to his credit, not all known to 

 the general public, which, when the record of his life is 

 written will give to him a place of eminence in the law, in 

 churchmanship, statesmanship and as a patriot, unswerving 

 and unswervable. He knew how to be useful in these do- 

 mains, and in many broad ways, but among men, and amid 

 their activities, he was finely modest in example and action, 

 for he was of the temper of those who "do good by stealth 

 and blush to find it fame." 



Regent Shipman was an American through and through — 

 an American Catholic gentleman of the flawless type. He 

 loved the institutions of his country, and gave the best that 

 was in him to their promotion and advancement. 



Pride of family he rightly had, but he made no display 

 thereof. Born in the Southland he came to the Empire State 

 for adoption, and New York never had a truer adopted son. 

 His birthplace was in Springvale in Fairfax county, Virginia ; 

 the date of his birth October 15, 1857, so that, dying on 

 October 17, 191 5, he had just closed his fifty-eighth year. 

 He was the son of John J. Shipman and Priscilla Carroll, and 

 his early education was in the common schools of Virginia- 

 Later he entered Georgetown University and still later New 

 York University, taking his B. A. degree in the latter in 

 1878. 



For a considerable period he was engaged in the United 

 States customs service investigating sugar frauds and other 

 offenses against the national government, a work in which he 

 rendered the Federal authorities most valuable aid. It was 

 not until 1886 that he was graduated from the law school of 

 New York University, and in the three decades which have 

 elapsed he has achieved distinction not only by the general 

 practice at the bar, but he has been chief counsel in many 

 noted cases wherein new law has been definitely expressed, 

 or, probably more correctly speaking, the true law has been 

 fnore distinctly defined and established. He was in the 

 notable litigation known as the St. Stephen's Church cases ; 

 in many cases involving the relations of employers and em- 

 ployees where the rights of collective or organized labor were 



