Cumberland County ME Archives Biographies.....Shepard, John W. April 1, 1788 - 1860
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Author: Rev. George M. Bodge

Rev. John W. Shepard was the son of Samuel Shepard and Sarah (Giles), and was 
born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, April 1, 1788, was educated in the local 
schools, perhaps finishing at Gilmanton Academy.  He was for some years in trade 
at Gilmanton, afterwards was editor of the New Hampshire Repository, published 
at Concord and subsequently became a bookseller at Portsmouth.  He afterwards 
studied divinity with Dr. Dana and Rev. Mr. Dimmick of Newburyport.  He was 
ordained at Windham as above noted in 1836, being then forty-eight years old.  
Mr. Shepard, after leaving Windham preached in various places, and March 6, 
1844, was installed as minister of the church at So. Merrimac, from which 
position he was dismissed in January, 1847.

Mr. Shepard married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Burns, Esq., June 10, 1817.  He 
died in Nashua, N.H., in 1860.

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Source: Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, Vol. 9, 1898, p. 139.

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