E. R. SHANKLAND
                          Jennings, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 192.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


E. R. SHANKLAND, Jennings.-E. R. Shankland was born in Lewis, Delaware, April 7,
1819.  He is,the son of William L. and Elizabeth Shankland, both natives of
Delaware. His grandfather Shankland was a native of England, and located in
Delaware at an early day. The parents of our subject were reared and married in
Delaware, where they resided until the time of their death. William L. Shankland
was a seafaring man, the captain of a vessel.
His parents died when our subject was a small boy, after which he went to Phi
ladelphia, and was there taken care of until the age of twelve years, by a man
whom he had previously known. At the age of twelve years he began work on the
canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, in which he was engaged for five years. At
this time the Seminole war broke out and he enlisted in the army under Colonel
Zachery Taylor, and was in active service for two years. After this he learned
the plasterer's trade, in Pittsburg, and followed that for a number of years.
Mr. Shankland removed to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1856, where he opened a seed and
implement house, the first house of that character in the State. In the
financial panic of 1857, like many others, he was financially ruined. He was
afterward engaged in farming and horticulture in Iowa. He was for ten years
director of the State Agricultural Society, and for two terms president of the
society. He served four years as Deputy United States Marshal for the northern
district of lowa, the first term under President Johnson's administration and
the second under President Grant. In 1885, he removed to Jennings, Louisiana and
has here been engaged in agriculture and horticulture. He has been president of
the Southwestern Horticultural Society since its organization in 1884
Mr. Shankland has married three times; his first wife was Miss Martha Neville,
to whom he was married in 1839, in Pittsburg. She died in 1851, having become
the mother of five children, all of whom are deceased.   Mr. Shankland
married in 1882 Miss Emeline F. Clapp. To this union four children were born,
three of whom are living, viz: Emeline F., of Chicago, Ralph and Edward, both of
whom are architects in Chicago, engaged with Burnham & Root, in charge of the
construction of the buildings for tile World's Fair. Mr. Shankland's second wife
died in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1865.  In 1884 he married Miss Olivia, daughter of
ex-Governor Hemstead, of Iowa.