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an excellent linguist, speaking no less than thirt^enlanguages. 

 He was a devoted husband, having married in 1893MTSS Adair 

 Mooney, the sister of his law partner, Mr. Edmund 

 Mooney. Mrs. Shipman was a most sympathetic and devoted 

 helper in all his work. He was a public-spirited citizen who 

 responded eagerly and practically to any civic cause or move- 

 ment of merit. His services to the State as Regent and as 

 delegate to the Constitutional Convention bear ample testi- 

 mony to his disinterested and practical public spirit. 



Much is said in these days about a lay apostolate. Mr. 

 Shipman exemplified it in many ways. He was in fact one 

 of its pioneers, of large example and fruitful results. His gen- 

 erous and large nature saw things in a generous and large 

 way. He was above all things a giver and his gift was entire ; 

 he withheld nothing. A lay apostolate is the recognized need 

 of the hour. It is the layman who comes into constant and 

 intimate contact with the world, and upon his shoulders falls 

 the urgent obligation of an apostolate for the Faith before 

 the world. Andrew Shipman realized all this even to a scru- 

 pulous delicacy of conscience, and he fulfilled it ably and nobly, 

 a Catholic layman without fear and without reproach, a son 

 who proved to the world an illustrious example of the teach- 

 ings and principle of the Catholic Church. 



CoNDE B. Fallen. 



