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SAMUEL SHELLABARGER. 
economic entomology no man’s name stands on the same 
plane with that of Riley. Outside of economic entomology, 
his contributions to science were many and of great value. 
He possessed the friendship and confidence of many of the 
leaders in scientific thought. Honors came to him abun¬ 
dantly from the time when he first became prominent as a 
writer. He died at the comparatively early age of 52, after 
having accomplished an amount of work which, when one 
sums it up, would seem sufficient to occupy the lifetime of 
many men of ordinary capacit}L 
Mentally he was one of the most active men of the age. 
He was many-sided and of broad interests. Had he been a 
man of university training and of exceptional advantages, 
the record of his life would still have been wonderful. As 
it is, it is practically without parallel. 
L. 0. Howard. 
SAMUEL SHELLABARGER. 
1817-1896. 
[Read before the Society, March 31, 1900.] 
Samuel Shellabarger was born December 10,1817, in Mad 
Run township, Clarke county, Ohio, and died August 6,1896, 
in Washington, D. C. 
On his father’s side he descended from a Swiss family 
whose lineage is said to have been traced back to the four¬ 
teenth century. On his mother’s side he was of Irish descent. 
He was the eldest in a family of eight children, of whom 
he outlived all save one, John Shellabarger, of Beatrice, Ne¬ 
braska. His early life was spent on his father’s farm and at 
the district school, from which he went to Oxford, Ohio, and 
attended Miami University, where he graduated in his 
twenty-fourth year, in 1841. 
For a profession he chose the law, and this profession, in¬ 
terrupted by intervals of public service, he pursued to the 
