SHATTUCK
SHAW
of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1807. He began practice
in Boston, was consulting physician of Boston,
1833-54, president of the Massacliusetts Medical
society, 1836-39, and President of the American
States society, 1845-51. He gave about $12,000
to Dartmouth; founded Dartmouth observatory,
forbidding its bearing his name; contributed
generously to the Harvard library, and gave
$5,500 towards building the Boston Athenaeum.
He was twice married: first, Oct. 3, 1811, to
Elisa Cheever (1790-1828), daughter of Caleb and
Eleanor (Cheever) Davis, and secondly, Aug. 17,
1835, to Amelia H. , daughter of Abraham Bigelow.
Dr. Sliattuck was a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the
honorary degrees: A.M., Harvard, 1807, M.D.,
Dartmouth, 1812, Bowdoin, 1851, and LL.D., Dart-
moutli, 1853. He died in Boston, March 18, 1854.
SHATTUCK, George Cheyne. educator, was born in Boston, Mass., July 22, 1813; son of George Cheyne Shattuck (q.v.) and Elisa Cheever (Davis) Shattuck. He was graduated at Har- vard, A.B., 1831, A.M., 1834, M.D., 1835, and later studied at Leipzig and Paris for three j-ears, re- turning to Boston in 1838 to enter into the prac- tice of medicine with his father. He was mar- ried on April 9, 1840, to A. H. Brune of Balti- more, Md. He was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's successor as visiting physician at the Massachu- setts general hospital, 1849-85; was professor of clinical medicine at Harvard, 1855-59; Hersey professor of theory and practice of physic, 1859- 74, and dean of the Harvard medical school, 1864-69. He was also instructor in medicine at Trinity college, 1852-82, and professor of anatomy and physiology, 1852-82, and was also dean of the Massachusetts medical society, 1872-74. He founded the Church of the Advent, Boston, in 1845, established St. Paul's school, Concord, N.H., in 1856, and was a lay delegate to the gen- eral conventions of the Protestant Episcopal church for nearly fifty years. He died in Boston, Mass., March 22, 1893.
SHATTUCK, Harriette (Robinson), author, was born in Lowell, Mass., Dec. 4, 1850; daughter of William Stevens and Harriet (Hanson) Robin- son (q.v.). She attended the public schools of Concord and Maiden, Mass., and private schools in Boston and Concord; was assistant to the clerk of the Massachusetts house of representa- tives several years, and assistant clerk in 1872, the latter position never having been held by any other woman. She was married, June 11, 1878, to Sidney Doane Shattuck of Maiden, mer- chant. She is the author of: Tl^e Story of Dante's Divine Comedy (1887): Little Folk East and West {\%^1); The Woman's Manual of Par- liamentary Law (1891), and Shattuck's Advanced Rules of Parliamentary Law (1895).
Ahti'us-
SHAW, Albert, journalist, was born in Shan-
don, Butler county, Ohio, July 23, 1857; son of
Dr. Grifiin and Susan (Fisher) Shaw. He was
graduated from Iowa college in 1879; took a post-
graduate course in constitutional history and
economic science there, 1879-81, and a course in
history and political
science at Johns Hop-
kins university, 1881-
84, receiving a degree
of Ph.D. in 1884.
Meanwhile he had
become an owner of
the Grinnell Herald
in 1879, and he was
connected with the
Minneapolis Daily
Tribune as an edito-
rial writer, 1883-88
and 1889-90. He
studied in Europe,
1888-89, and in 1891 he
established and be-
came editor of the American Review of Revietvs.
He was married, Sept. 5, 1893, to Elizabeth Leon-
ard Bacon of Reading, Pa. He lectured on mu-
nicipal government at Cornell, Johns Hopkins,
Michigan and other universities, and declined the
professorship of international law and political
institutions at Cornell in 1890. He was a charter
member of the American Economic association
and the American Historical association, and a
fellow of the American Statistical society; a
member of the American Antiquarian society, and
a fellow of the New York Academy of Political
Science. He is the author of: Icaria: a Chapter
in the History of Communisn (1884); Local Gov-
ernment in Illinois (1883); Co-operation in the
Northwest (1888); Municipal Government in Great
Britain (1895); Municipal Governinent in Conti-
nental Europe (1895); Iowa in American Com-
monwealth Series (1903); besides many articles on
subjects connected with political science, econo-
mics and municipal governments.
SHAW, Henry, philanthropist, was born in SheiSeld, England, July 24, 1800; son of Joseph Shaw, who was born in Leicester, and became an iron manufacturer in Sheffield. Henry Shaw was educated at Thorne, and later at Mill Hill, a nonconformist school near London. In 1819 he moved with his parents to Canada and went to New Orleans and hence to St. Louis, where he engaged in the cutlery business. In 1840 he re- tired, worth $250,000. He then traveled in Eu- rope, and after visiting the Chatsworth gardens, decided to lay out a similar garden on his own estate in St. Louis, to be opened to the public. With the help of Dr. George Engelmann (q.v.) the plan was accomplished by 1859. Later he
