- CA QUA11932
- Person
- fl. 1936
J.H. Shepherd was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
J.H. Shepherd was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
Ralph K. Shepard, an architect based in Toronto, Ontario, entered into partnership with Dexter Delano Calvin in 1913. Over the ensuing years they designed numerous commercial, financial, residential,and educational buildings. Included in this long list is nearly thirty banks in various Canadian provinces, the Brock Building, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and the Ban Righ Women's Residence and the Douglas Library at Queen's University at Kingston. The firm dissolved upon the death of R.K. Shepard in 1933.
Writer and English Professor Odell Shepard was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans during his brief term as an instructor of English at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1916-1917. His more extensive faculty tenure was as Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Harford, Connecticut, from 1917-1946, and was later as a guest lecturer there from 1946-1966. He was also the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1940-1943.
Shepards writing ranged from the academic, such as his Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Bronson Alcott, Pedlars Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott (Little, Brown, 1937) to his Book-of-the-Month selected novel, Jenkins Ear (Macmillan, 1951). Shepard also wrote collections of poetry, textbooks, essays, a fishing guide, and several histories. One of his histories, The Lore of the Unicorn, is a topic in one of Evanss letters.
Odell Shepard died on July 19, 1967, in New London, Connecticut.
The firm of Shepard and Calvin, located in Toronto, Ontario, was formed in 1913, when Ralph K. Shepard entered into partnership with Dexter Delano Calvin. Over the ensuing years they designed numerous commercial, financial, residential,and educational buildings. Included in this long list is nearly thirty banks in various Canadian provinces, the Brock Building, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and the Ban Righ Women's Residence and the Douglas Library at Queen's University at Kingston. The firm dissolved upon the death of R.K. Shepard in 1933.
Henry Kirk Sheldon was a photographer based in Kingston, Ontario.
Sheldon & Davis was a photography studio based in Kingston, Ontario. Henry Sheldon, who has been working earlier as a daguerreotypist, took on Richard Davis as his associate in 1863. After Sheldon's death in 1877, Davis continued using the name until circa 1904.