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Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Family of Rebecca CARLOCK SHINN, b. ca. 1800, Mecklenburg Co., NC
In a message dated 4/27/02 8:57:38 AM Central Daylight Time, STilleman(a)satx.rr.com
writes:
Josiah Carlock Shinn
Of course - you are right - it was a slip- up. I should have checked my text better.
P.S. I live in Springdale AR and they had Josiah Hazen's picture and and article in
the local paper within the last few years - regarding his history here.
Family Group Record
Husband: Josiah Carlock SHINN
Birth: 21 Sep 1794 Cabarrus Co, NC
Death: 3 Dec 1853 Russellville, Pope Co, AR
Marriage: 18 Nov 1847 Lawrenceburg, Anderson Co, KY
Father: Benjamin SHINN (b 1753)
Mother: Rebecca CARLOCK
Other spouse: Elizabeth B. HUMPHREYS (m 11 Apr 1827)
Other spouse: Melissa Ann BAKER (m 6 Feb 1844)
Wife: Elizabeth Frances GILPIN
Death: 9 Feb 1892 Russellville, Pope Co, AR
Father: Willis GILPIN
Mother: Ann MCBRAYER
Other spouse: Samuel Reed JUDD (m 28 Mar 1859)
Children
1 M Josiah Hazen SHINN
Birth: 29 Mar 1849 Russellville, Pope Co, AR
Spouse: Mildred Carlton WILLIAMS (m 7 Jan 1875)
2 M Ezra Hickman SHINN
Birth: 25 Dec 1850 Russellville, Pope Co, AR
Death: bef 1903 Russellville, Pope Co, AR
Spouse: Fannie E. ALLEN (m 20 Aug 1878)
3 M Benjamin Everett SHINN
Birth: 13 Nov 1852 Russellville, Pope Co, AR
Prepared 27 Apr 2002 by:
Pat McAlister
FAMILY NOTES
HUSBAND NOTES: Josiah Carlock SHINN
General: From: The History of the Shinn Family in Europe & America by Josiah Hazen
Shinn
- 1903
Josiah Carlock Shinn was born in what is now Cabarrus Co, NC. hIs father died in 1801,
leaving him and four brothers minors. He was apprenticed by the Probate Court of Cabarrus
County to the firm of Garretson and Graham, of Concord, NC, 10/17/1808, to learn the
hatter's business: served his apprenticeship: his bond of indenture was cancelled in
open court 7/19/1810 at 10 a.m.; enlisted in 1814 and was present at the Battle of New
Orleans; made final settlement with his guardian Samuel Shinn, May, 1813; on 12/4/1816
Jacob Meisenheimer, John Russell, John Long, Martin Phifer and John Rogers, Commissioners
of the Probate Court of Cabarrus County, divided the real estate left by Benjamin Shinn,
and the following allotments were made to his children: "Josiah C. Shinn, 127 acres;
Moses Shinn, 127 acres; Benjamin Shinn, 127 acres; Joseph Shinn, 127 acres, and Solomon
Shinn, 127 acres."
[see Benjamin, father for details]
Selling his North Carolina property, Josiah Carlock Shinn removed to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where
he engaged in the hatter's business/ Here he attached himself to the Washingtonians in
1826, and his card, now in the possession of the writer [Josiah Hazen Shinn - 1903] shows
that he was one of the original members; removed to Terre Haute, Ind., in 1827, where he
married Elizabeth B. Humphreys, 4/11/1827; joined the Christian Church and was made a
preacher by that society; his wife died 10/15/1839; moved to Lawrenceburg, Anderson
County, Ky., where he opened a hat manfactory; married there, 2/6/1844, Melissa Ann Baker.
He then married Elizabeth Frances and they set out for the young state of Arkansas. In all
his life not a drop of whiskey was ever used by him, and under no circumstances was it
permitted to be used on
his premises. He was a teacher of note during the latter days of his life, a Christian in
every respect and a fond husband and father.
WIFE NOTES: Elizabeth Frances GILPIN
General: Elizabeth inherited all the traits that made the Gilpin family notable in
England; one of these was the performance of duty without regard for the consequences. One
of the family in England was offered a bishop's mitre by Queen Elizabeth. This he
refused, saying "My duty is to preach to the poor of Durham."
With her needle she kept her children in school, and with a firmness akin to stubbornness
made them go until they graduated. She was unniversally respected.
CHILD NOTES: Josiah Hazen SHINN
General: From: The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America by Josiah Hazen
Shinn 1903
Josiah learned to read at his father's knee in his third year; to Louisville, KY., in
1854; entered school there in his sixth year, being placed in the third grade; to
Cincinnati in 1859; passed through the intermediate and high school grades of the schools
of that city; graduated at the Ohio Normal School in 1869; admitted to the bar at
Cincinnati 1872, but never practiced; he was examined for admission by Stanley Matthews,
afterwards Associate Justice of the U.S. at
Washington; Judge Hoadley, T. D. LIncoln, and Henry Snow; taught school for eighteen years
in Ohio, Kentucky and Arkansas; married, 1/7/1875, at Bridgeport, Franklin County, Ky.,
Mildred Carlton, daughter of Jacob and Catherine [Mueller] Williams.
The father of the bride was a soldier in the 5th Kentucky Orphan Brigade, C. S. A., and
grandson of Jesse Williams of Nelson County, Va., a Revolutionary Soldier. Mr Shinn moved
to Arkansas in 1882; institute instructor for five years under W. E. Thompson; State
Superintendent; President State Teachers' Association 1887; Chief Clerk in office of
Secretary of State under Elias B. Moore and Ben. B. Chism 1885-1890; State Superintendent
of Public Instruction 1890-1894; received the highest vote cast for any man on the state
ticket;
established the first State Normal Schools in Arkansas while in this office; organized the
Southern Educational Association at Moorehead City, N. C., in 1891; and was elected its
first President; re-elected at Chattanooga, Tenn, in 1892; Vice-President National
Educational Association 1892; placed specially by the Legislature of Arkansas in charge of
the arkansas Educational Exhibit at the World's Columbian Expostion 1893; appointed
Judge in the Liberal Arts Department of the World's Fair by the U. S. Commission 1893;
to the Russian Empire in
1894-1895, where he was presented to Emperor Nicholas I, at the Anitchkoff Palace.
Writer for the Little Rock 'Gazette and Democrat'; editor and publisher for ten
years of the 'Arkansas Teacher' and 'Southern School Journal', established
the first Chautauquas in Arkansas at Springdale, Mammoth Spring and Fort Smith i 1898,
1899, 1900, 1901; lecturer 1896 adn 1897 in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and
Missouri; President of Springdale College 1898-1901; was appointed to the Accounts
Division, Indian Office, Department of Interior, Washington, D. C.. 1901; to the Indian
Warehouse, Chicago, Ill.,
1902. [Organized the 1898 Springdale Chautauqua]
Mr. Shinn has pucblished the following books and pamphlets: "The Public School and
the College", 1891; "The South in Public Education," 1891; Vassar College,
Pamphlet, 1891; "Illustrated Arkansas", 1892; "History of the American
People,"
1893; "History of Education in Arkansas," published by the U. S. Government,
1899; "Russia at the World's Fair." in English and Russian, 1894. This was
republished by Russian governmental officials. "History of Arkansas" for
schools, 1895; "Primary History of the United States," 1899; "History of
the Russian Empire," for Libraries, in preparation. Registrar of the S. A. R. for
Arkansas, 1892-3-4. Memeber of the American Institute, 1894; Honorary Member of the
Pennsylvania and West Virginia Historical Societies, 1894; Member of the Imperial Russian
geographical and Historical Societies, 1894; Member of the Christian Church, a good
speaker and a Democrat.
CHILD NOTES: Ezra Hickman SHINN
General: He was educated at Louisville, KY and Cincinnati, OH. He was a teacher and
salesman.
CHILD NOTES: Benjamin Everett SHINN
General: Died as an infant