Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Shields, Edward P., Rev., D.D.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


REV. EDWARD P. SHIELDS, D. D. pastor of the First 
Presbyterian church, of Bristol, was born at New Albany, 
Ind., August 31, 1833.  His grandfather, Patrick Shields, 
emigrated from the north of Ireland to the colony of 
Virginia and settled on the Rappahannock.  Here he married 
Mary Nance, a lady of Huguenot descent, and here, in August, 
1801, Henry Burnett, the father of Edward P., was born.  Not 
long afterward the family removed to Kentucky, and after a 
short residence crossed the Ohio river into what is now the 
state of Indiana.  Here Mr. Shields was an active citizen.  
He held various places of public trust, and was a member of 
the convention which framed the first constitution of 
Indiana.  Edward P. is the son of Henry B. and Joanna (Day) 
Shields, the latter a native of Morristown, N. J.   On April 
19, 1858, he married Sarah Scovel, and they are the parents 
of six children:  Clara (MacConnell), Henry B., Hannah S., 
Edmund S., William H., and Lillian M.  He was educated at 
Miami University, Oxford Ohio, and graduated from that 
institution in June, 1854. He attended the Presbyterian 
theological seminaries at New Albany, Indiana, and 
Princeton, New Jersey, graduating from the latter in 1858.  
On June 2nd of that year he was ordained by the Presbytery 
of West Jersey, and at once entered upon his first pastorate 
at Pittsgrove, N. J., remaining there until 1870, when he 
removed to Cape May, his second pastorate, which also 
continued thirteen years.  On March 1, 1884, Mr. Shields 
became pastor at Bristol and this relation still exists.  
The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by his alma mater 
at the annual commencement, in June, 1887.