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In 1915 he was elected from the Nineteenth Senatorial dis- 

 trict as Delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention, 

 which convened in Albany during the summer of the same 

 year. It was a hot and trying season. Mr. Shipman spent 

 the entire time in Albany applying himself to the work of 

 the Convention with his customary intensity and energy. He 

 in fact exhausted himself with his devotion and zeal in this 

 public service, and returned to New York depleted physically 

 from his labors. The heavy strain upon his energies entailed 

 by the work of the Convention was without doubt the founda- 

 tion of his last illness. Upon his return to New York City, 

 he sought to resume his professional and other duties, but 

 found the task beyond his strength. He died on Sunday, Oc- 

 tober 17, at his home in New York City from an acute at- 

 tack of Bright's Disease. His funeral took place on Wednes- 

 day, October 20, from St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York 

 City, and was attended by people of prominence from all walks 

 of life, as well as by the representatives of the many char- 

 itable, fraternal and social organizations with which he had 

 been affiliated. After the solemn requiem Mass, a burial 

 .service according to the Greek Rite was conducted over the 

 bier by the Right Reverend Stephen Ortynsky, bishop of all 

 the Ruthenian Greek Catholics in the United States, attended 

 by a number of Greek Ruthenian and Maronite priests. Mem- 

 bers of the Ukrainian choir chanted the music of the service. 

 This was the first time the burial service according to the 

 Greek Catholic Rite was ever seen in a church of the Latin 

 Rite in the United States. 



The variety and scope of Mr. Shipman's writings as pub- 

 lished in this volume speak for themselves. He was a busy 

 man, but like all busy men, always found time for additional 

 tasks. He was called upon frequently and never refused to 

 respond to a worthy cause or to an occasion where it seemed 

 to him that he might do good. He was a member of some 

 twenty-two different organizations, charitable, social, fraternal 

 or religious, and was active in nearly all of them.^ He was 



1 He was a member of the Catholic Club, Southern Society, American Bar 

 Association, New York State Bar Association. New York Ccuintv Lawyers' Associa- 

 tion, American Society of International Law, American Geographic Society, 

 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, a number of local Church and civic organizations 

 and the sole honorary member of St. George's Ruthenian Greek Catholic Benevolent 

 Association. 



