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SHARPE, Jacob, soldier, b. in Kingston. N. Y., 31 July, 1835 ; tl. in Detroit, Mich., 27 April, 1892. He spent two years at the U. S. military acad- emy, and in 1856 was graduated at the Chan- dler school of science and arts, of Dartmouth. In May, 1861, he entered the National service as 1st lieutenant in the 20th regiment of New York volunteers; was commissioned major of the 56th New York infantry, 3 Sept., 1861 ; and resigned on 5 Aug., 1862. He became, 17 Sept., 1862, lieu- tenant-colonel of the 156th New York infantry ; colonel, 1 April, 1863; and was brevetted briga- dier-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865, " for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Winchester, Va." Gen. Sharp was honorably mustered out on 23 Oct., 1865. He took part in the battles of Williamsburg. Fair Oaks, the Pen- insula, Port Hudson, Red River campaign, Shen- andoah Valley, Cedar Creek, and Winchester. During the la.st two years of his service he com- man<lcd a brigade in the 19th army-corps, and for s number of years prior to his decease he was governorof the Soldiers' home at Milwaukee. Wis.

SHAW, Albert Dnane, consul, b. in Lyme, Jefferson co., N. Y., 27 Dec. 1841. He serveil for two years as a private in the civil war. and in 1867 was graduated from St. I<awrence university; also in the same year bec^aiue «oloiicl of the 36th regi- ment. New York National guard. He was for ten years consul at Toronto, Canada, and was then nro- roote<l to be consul at Manchester, England, where he remained until 1886. Since 1890 he has been president of the Canadian Niagara power company. For many years Col. Shaw has been a prominent member of the Grand army of the republic, and has always been an earnest advocate of liberal pensions for veterans. In 1895 he was chosen a delegatc-at-large to the national encampment. In 1897 he was elected department commander of the Grand anny of the republic for New York, and was re-elected in 1898. In Septemlx-r, 1899, he wius unanimously chosen commander-in-chief, and in the same month forbid the Grand army posts ap|>earing in the Dewey |iara<le in New York Ik-- caiise the veterans were not given the place in the line which Col. Shaw claimed for them.

SHAW, LesUe Mortimpr, governor, b. in Mor- ri8town, Vt., 2 Nov., 1848. lie wasgraduate<l in Cor- nell college, and at the Iowa college of law in 1876, having since practised his profession in Denison, and is also jiresident of a bank there, as well ns of anothor in Slanila. He has occasionally taken part in political campaigns, first acquiring prominence as an advocate for the election of Major McKinley as president in 1896. He was elected governor of Iowa in 1898 by a large majority, and in 1899 was re-elected for a second term. Gov. Shaw is a vigor- ous speaker, and a(^tive in the Methoilist church, having several times represented the Des Moines conference in the general quadrennial conferences.

SHELBY. Joseph Orville, soldier, b. in Lex- ington, Ky., 10 June. ISH ; d. near Adrian, Mo., 13 Feb., 1897. He was a grandson of Gov. Isaac Shelby (q. v.), and at nineteen removed to Mis- souri, where he engaged in business at Waverly. Subsequently he l)ecame owner of a plantation in Jjafayette countv. He was an active proslavery lea<ler in the Kansas-Missouri border conflicts, and early in the civil war raised and equipped a company of Confederate cavalry. Soon after- ward he was ma<le colonel of the 5th Missouri cav- alry and later commissioned brigatlier-general, playing the same part in Missouri and .Arkansas that Stuart an<l Mcirgan did in Virginia and Ken- tucky. He cotnmanded a division in Price's .Mis- souri raid, covering that general's army in its retreat to Texas. After the surrender of the trans-Mississippi forces, Shelby, then a major- general, marched a force of about one thousand mounted men and a battery of artillery into Mex- ico, which was soon disbanded, and his guns sold to the Mexicans. In 1867 he returned to his farm, and in 1893 President Cleveland appointed him U. S. marshal for the western district of Missouri. See the story of " Shelby and his Men," by John N. Edwards (Cincinnati, 1867).

SHEPHERD, Henry Elliot, educator, b. in Fayetteville, N. C, 17 Jan., 1844. He was edu- cated at the University of Virginia and after grad- uation was made professor of history and rhetoric in the city college of Baltimore, July, 1808. He was elected superintendent of public instruction for Baltimore in June, 1875, resigning the position October, 1882, to assume the presidency of the College of Charleston, S. C. He is a member of the American historical association, the Modern language association of America, and is a pro- fessor of English in the Sauveur summer college of languages, Burlington, Vt. Dr. Shepherd is the author of "A History of the English Language" a series of English grammars, and is editor of Aiipleton.s' " Historical Header." He has been a contributor to the "American Journal of Phi- lology," is one of the .Aiuerican workers upon the " Historical Dictionary of the English Language" being published at Oxford, and is the author of numerous historical and educational essays.

SHERIHAN, Michael Vincent, soldier, b. in Somerset, Ohio, 24 May. 1840. He is the youngest brother of Gen. Philip H. .Sheridan, and was edu- cated at St. Joseph's college, in his native town. He served in the civil war as 1st lieutenant, 2d Missouri infantry, and later as captain and aide- ile-camp to Gen. Sheridan, serving under him dur- ing the Shenandoah campaign. At the close of the war he became 2<1 lieutenant, 5th cavalry, later joining the infantry. In 1882 he entered the ad- jutant-general's department with the rank of major, was promoted in 1890 to lieutenant-colonel, ancl in 1896 became full colonel. Two years later, during the war with Spain, Sheridan was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers.

SHERREU. Jacob, donor, b. in Germany, 23 Jan.. 1756; il. in New York city, 30 March, 1821. He was a glazier and painter, and had an exten- sive business in New York city. Sherred was a vestryman of Trinity church, and a tablet to his memory has been placed in its tnonn- ment-room. When it was proposed to remove the Gener- altheological semi- nary of the Prot- estant Episcinial church toNewJer- sey,he was induced by his wife to leave to it 160,000. pro- vided It should locate permanent- ly in New York. Through hisefforts

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St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal church was built as a place of wor- ship for colored people, and he contributed gener- ously toward its support. He also left a large sum to the orphan asylum in New York city. In 1883 the first of the new buildings erected on Chelsea