Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . an might hesitate to read aloudbefore his family. He had an unaffecteddislike for the morbid stuff that too oftenmars the press product under the guiseof news, and which he held to be apabulum serving the gratification of anunhealthy appetite, and ever sowing theseeds of vice and criminality among itsreaders. In adhering to this conviction,and steadfastly eschewing sensational-ism, Colonel She
Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New York : a life record of men and women of the past whose sterling character and energy and industry have made them preeminent in their own and many other states . an might hesitate to read aloudbefore his family. He had an unaffecteddislike for the morbid stuff that too oftenmars the press product under the guiseof news, and which he held to be apabulum serving the gratification of anunhealthy appetite, and ever sowing theseeds of vice and criminality among itsreaders. In adhering to this conviction,and steadfastly eschewing sensational-ism, Colonel Shepard achieved a decidedsuccess. A peculiarity of his journal,since Colonel Shepards purchase, was itsfresh daily reprint of a verse from theHoly Scriptures, at the head of itscolumns. In 1868, Colonel Shepard married Mar-garet Louisa, eldest daughter of WilliamH. Vanderbilt. He died in New YorkCity, March 25. 1893. FLOWER, Roswell P., Governor. Roswell Pettibone Flower was born inTheresa, New York, August 7, 1835,fourth son of Nathan M. and Mary Ann(Boyle) Flower. His father was a nativeof Greene county, New York, and hismother of Cherry Valley, Otsego paternal ancestors were from Eng-. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY land, and settled in Hartford, Connecti-cut, in 1696, while on his mothers sidehe was descended from Scotch-Irish an-cestors. His father was a wool-carderand cloth-dresser, and when he died in1843 his wife and sons continued the busi-ness. Roswell P. Flower paid his own way atschool by working on a farm, in a brick-yard, and at odd jobs about the villagestore. He was graduated at the TheresaHigh School in 1851, and then taught acountry school. In 1853 he became aclerk in a store at Theresa, and then wentto Philadelphia, New York, where he wasa clerk for a short time. The firm failed,and he returned to Theresa. He was ap-pointed assistant postmaster of Water-town, New York, in 1854, remaining inthe office for six years, and out of a salaryof six hundred dollar
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