930 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
which he carried out with the professional skill and care for 
which he was noted. 
The following are some of the edifices that were erected by 
him in Chicago: The Williams building, occupied by Edson 
Keith & Co.; the Presbyterian hospital; the first Academy of 
Music (which he rebuilt twice) ; the Gaff building, one of the 
early tall buildings; and a large number of the finest mercan¬ 
tile and manufacturing buildings, many private and public hos¬ 
pitals, courthouses, schools, churches, banks and residences 
throughout Chicago and the Northwest, among them the Bur¬ 
lington opera house at Burlington, Iowa, a noble structure. 
Colonel Shipman was intimately connected with literary 
studies and work. He was one of the charter members of the 
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, and at his 
death was a corresponding member of that society. He was 
elected its first secretary of the department of sciences, embrac¬ 
ing the mathematical, physical, anthropological, natural and 
social sciences. He was connected with the State Historical 
society of Wisconsin since 1855 as a member and curator, and 
was its recording secretary until his removal to Chicago. He 
was made a life member and served as honorary vice-president 
for Illinois, until, by a revision of the constitution of the socie¬ 
ty, that office for Illinois, as for all the other states, was dis¬ 
continued. 
He was a corresponding member of the New England His¬ 
toric Genealogical society, and an honorary member of the 
Bradford (Pennsylvania) Historical society. He was a fellow 
of the American Institute of Architects; and was twice elected 
president of the Chicago chapter of that institute. He was a 
member of the Western Association of Architects until its in¬ 
corporation with the National Institute; and also of other 
learned societies. 
He was an active member and officer of the Masonic order, 
and was a past commander of the Knights Templar. 
His name appears in Allibone’s “Dictionary of Authors,” as 
the author of the “Shipman Family Genealogy.” 
Colonel Shipman was married at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,, 
