When the Ohio annual conference of that body was organized in October. 1829, he was elected (incident, and stationed at Cincinnati; and in 1833, when the Pittsburg conference was formed, he was chosen its president. From 1834 till 1830 he was associate editor of the " Methodist Prot- estant" at Baltimore. He was subject to attacks nf insanity, and died in an asylum. He published An Essay on the Plan of Salvation " (Baltimore, 1813), and " The Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being" (Philadelphia, 1840).
SHINN, George Wolfe, clergyman, b. in Phila-
delphia, Pa., 14 Dec., 1839. He was educated at
the public schools, at Virginia theological school,
and the Philadelphia divinity-school, and was grad-
uated at the latter in 1863. He entered the min-
istry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and has
been rector of churches in Philadelphia, Shamo-
kin, and Lock Haven, Pa., Troy, N. Y., and of
Grace church. Newton, Mass., where he still (1898)
remains. He has been head master of St. Paul's
school. Troy, edited for ten years " The Teachers'
Assistant," contributed articles to church periodi-
cals, and has published " Manual of Instruction upon
the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels for the Christian
Year " (New York. 1874) ; " Manual of the Prayer-
Book " (1875) ; " Manual of Church History " (1876) ;
"Stories for the Happy Days of Christmas Time"
(1879); "Questions about" our Church" (1880);
"Questions that trouble Beginners in Religion"
(1882); and edited a '-Prayer- Book and Hymnal
for the Sunday-School " (1885).
SHIPMAN, George Elias, physician, b. in
Xew York city, 4 March, 1820 ; d. in Chicago. 20
Jan.. 1893. He entered Middlebury, was gradu-
ated at the University of New York, and four years
later completed his studies at the New York college
of physicians and surgeons. In 1846 he removed to
Chicago, where he soon had a large and lucrative
practice. In 1848 he founded the "Northwestern
Journal of Homoeopathy," and was its successful
editor four years. Since that date he had contrib-
uii'd many articles to medical journals, and in 1865
he became editor of the "United States Medical
and Surgical Journal," and the next year published
" The Homoeopathic Guide." In 1871 he conceived
the idea of establishing a home for foundlings; or,
as he firmly believed and declared, he founded the
home in obedience to the expressed desire of God.
With $77.38 in hand he opened it, 30 Jan.. 1871,
trusting in the Lord to furnish the needed funds
as wanted. On 9 May. 1874. possession was taken
of a new building that cost $40,837. To this an
addition was made in 1883-'4, making the aggre-
gate cost of buildings $88,690. During the first
thirteen years 4,978 children were received, of
which 889' were given away, and 1,097 were restored
to their parents. No state or municipal aid has
ever been contributed to the support of the home,
nor had Dr. Shipman ever asked for any assistance.
SHIPP, Albert Micajall, educator, b. in Stokes
county, N. C., 15 Jan.. 1819 ; d. in Cleveland Springs,
N. C., in 1887. He was graduated in 1840, and re-
ceived into the South Carolina Methodist confer-
ence in 1841. In 1847 lie became president of
Greensborough female college, N. C., and in 1849
professor of history and French in the University
of North Carolina. He was made in 1859 president
of Wofford college, Spartanburg Court-House, S. C.,
in is 74 professor of exegetical and biblical theology
in Vanderbilt university, and in 1883 dean of the
faculty and chancellor of that university. He
originated the feature of biblical professorships in
all Methodist institutions of learning, and was
among the first to advocate biblical institutes for
the proper education of preachers for the Methodist
Episcopal church, south. He had been a member
of every general conference since 1850. lie had
published "The History of Methodism in South
Carolina" (Nashville, 1882).
SHIPP, Bernard, author, b. near Natchez,
Miss.. ::<) April, 1813. His father. William Shipp.
a native of Virginia, was a merchant of Natchez
for thirty years. He was educated at Lexington.
Ky.. and at Philadelphia, and, after spending his
youth and early manhood at Natchez, remove. I i..
Louisville, Ky. He published " Fame, and other
Poems" (Philadelphia, 1848), and "The Progress
of Freedom, and other Poems" (New York, 1852).
SHIPPEN, Edward, mayor of Philadelphia, b. in Hillhain, Cheshire, England, in 1639; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 2 Oct., 1712. He was the son of William Shippen. His brother. Rev. William Shippen, D. D., was rector of Stockport, Cheshire, and his nephew, Robert Shippen. D. D., was principal of Brasenose college, and vice-chancellor of Oxford university. Edward was bred to mercantile pursuits, and emigrated to Boston. Mass., in 1668. where he became a wealthy merchant. In 1671 he became a member of the Ancient and honorable artillery company of Boston. He married Elizabeth Lybrand, a Quakeress, united with that sect, and shared the " jailings, whippings, and banishments, the fines and imprisonments," that were inllicted on the. Quakers. In 1693 Mr. Shippen was either banished or driven to take refuge in Philadelphia. He did not quit Boston without erecting a memorial on " a green." near to " a pair of gallows, where several of our friends had suffered death for the truth, and were thrown into a hole." He asked leave of the magistrates to erect some more lasting monument there, but they were not willing. About the time he was leaving he gave a piece of land for a Friends' meeting-house, located in Brattle's pasture, on Brattle street, near the site of the Quincey house, and on which was constructed the first brick church in Boston. In Philadelphia his wealth and character obtained for him position and influence. In 1695 he was elected to the assembly, and chosen speaker. In 1690 he was elected to the provincial council, of which he continued a member till his death, and for ten years lie was the senior member. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in the same year, and in a judge of the supreme court, and t" judge of the courts of common pleas a judge of the supreme court, and the presiding judge of the courts of common pleas and quarter sessions and the orphan's court. In 1701 he became mayor of Philadelphia, being so named in William Perm's city charter of that year, ami during this year he was appointed by Penn to be one of his commissioners of property, which office Shippen held till his death. As president of the council, he was the head of the government from May until December, 1703. In 1704, and for several years thereafter, he was chosen one of the aldermen, and from 1 June. 1705, till 1712 he was the treasurer of the city. He contracted his third marriage in 1706, which led to his withdrawal from the Society of Friends. His house long bore the name of "the Governor's House." "It was built in the early rise of the city, received then the name of Shippen's Great House.' while Shippen himself was proverbially distinguished for three great tilings the biggest person, the biggest house, and the biggest coach.' " His son, Joseph, b. in Boston, 28 Feb., 1679 ; d. in Philadelphia in 1741, lived in Boston until 1704, when he moved to Philadelphia. He was among the men of science in his day, and in 1727 he joined Benjamin Franklin in founding the Junto " for mutual information and the public
