Sheppard, J. H. (John Hannibal), 1789-1873
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Lawyer, librarian, and author, of Wiscasset, Me., and Boston, Mass.
John Hannibal Sheppard was born 17 March 1789 Cirencester, England. The Sheppard family came to the U.S. in 1791 and settled at Hallowell, ME. He attended Hallowell Academy and started at Harvard but left in 1806 to enter law firm of Wilde & Bond. He was admitted to the bar in 1810. John removed to Boston in 1841. He was librarian of NEHGS from 1861-1869 and became a life member in 1866. He died 25 June 1873 [Memoir in Register 27(1873):335-346].
Probably by John Hannibal Sheppard, a Maine author, who was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, 17 March 1789 and died in Boston, Mass., 25 June 1873. In 1793 his parents settled in Hallowell, Me. He was educated at Harvard, which he left in his junior year, but in 1867 the university placed his name among the graduates of 1808. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and practised in Wiscasset, Me. From 1817 until 1834 he was register of probate for Lincoln county, and in 1842 he settled in Boston, Mass. He was an early and efficient member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, its librarian in 1861-1869, and contributed to its "Register." The degree of A.M. was given to him by Bowdoin in 1830, and by Harvard in 1871. In addition to several masonic and antiquarian addresses, he was the author of occasional poems, of "Reminiscences of the Vaughan Family" (Boston, 1865), and "The Life of Samuel Tucker, Commodore in the American Revolution" (1868).
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Westport (Me.)
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Maine
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Maine--Hallowell
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Pemaquid (Me.)
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Pownalboro (Me.)
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Portland (Me.)
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Massachusetts
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California
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Bristol (Me.)
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Bath (Me.)
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Wiscasset (Me.)
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Maine--Wiscasset
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Brunswick (Me.)
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Wiscasset (Me.)
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Massachusetts--Boston
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