From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] 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, [email protected] 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