Charles Shedd, son of Capt. Abel & Rebecca (Adams) Shedd, born in Rindge, Oct. 21, 1802. Dartmouth College, 1826. He was instructor, eight years, in the Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, New Hampshire. In 1834, he removed to New Ipswich, and became principal of the Appleton Academy, in that place. In this position he was deservedly successful & popular. After seven years labor in this place, he removed to Campton, New Hampshire, and in Feb. 1842, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church there and remained 15 years. Subsequently he removed to Minnesota.
Source: "History of the Town of Rindge, NH", Ezra S. Stearns - 1874 (Sutro Library)
Picture: "Alden-Shedd Families, Part II", W.A. Wheeler (Received from Sue Kilbride)
He prepared for college at New Ipswich and Hanover, N.H., from 1819 to 1822. At the age of twenty he entered Dartmouth College, where he maintained an excellent standing in his studies and graduated four years later in the class of 1826, among his classmates being his cousin Rev. Henry Shedd. After his graduation he taught for eight years at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N.H., and in 1834 became principal of APpleton Academy in New Ipswich, N.H., one of the leading preparatory schools of its day. This relation continued until 1841, during which time he met with marked success as an instructor; he then resigned his position to study divinity and on 24 Mar. 1842 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Campton, N.H. His abilities as a scholar and his rich fund of information acquired by much reading helped to make him equally successful in this new field as a preacher. His social nature made many friends and the long period of his stay over this charge gave evidence of the high esteem in which he was held. He remained in this position for nearly fifteen years and in 1856 removed to Minnesota and settled in Mantorville for about two years. After 1848 his services were chiefly given to home missionary work in various places in Minnesota, including organizing a church in Zumbrota in 1857, and preaching in Claremont 1858-1873. He gave up the regular ministry in 1873. He organized in part or wholly several churches in that section and continued his labors until enfeebled health compelled him to retire. In 1880 he removed to Zumbrota, Minn., to live near his son Henry, and he died there on 7 May 1885, in his eighty-third year.
Source: "Daniel Shed Genealogy", Frank Edson Shedd, 1920
[James A. Shedd] fitted himself for college, studying by the blaze of an open fire, but did not enter college. He was a thorough Latin and Greek scholar, and very proficient in both French and German, so much so that he was often asked by Germans what part of Germany he came from. For a time he taught school and later went west, where in Champaing Co., Ohio, in 1831, he was admitted to the bar. Later he settled in Dayton, Ohio, where he practiced law until 1857, when he removed to a small farm near the village of Denmark, Iowa, where he passed the rest of his life. He was an earnest anti-slavery advocate, associating with many of the early leaders of abolotion, even as early as 1836. He gave three sons to help preserve the Union, and when urged to apply for a pension which he might have had on account of the death of his youngest son killed at Vicksburg, he replied, "I gave my sons as a free will offering to my country and all the money in the world could not compensate the sacrifice."
Source: "Daniel Shed Genealogy", Frank Edson Shedd, 1920
Postcard from Charles F. Shedd (son of James Adams Shedd) to his cousin, Mary Shedd Sherwin.
The message on the back reads:
Lincoln, Neb. September 15, 1911
Fifty years ago today my oldest bro. & I enlisted in the Eng. Reg. of the West Mo. Vol. My bro. had just served 3 months in the Iowa 1st Infty. My youngest bro. enlisted in 62 in the 30th Iowa. He was killed in battle at Vicksburg May 22, 1863. My oldest bro. died a few years after he was discharged from the service on acct. of sickness. ...Charles F. Shedd
This picture was most likely taken in 1911 since it appears to be about the same time as the previous picture, but no date is written on the picture.
The preceding 2 pictures of Charles F. Shedd are from Jo Rice, a descendant of Mary Shedd Sherwin.
