Thomas L. Shields and Amelia Neville Chaplin

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Husband Thomas L. Shields ¹

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            AKA: Thomas S. Shields Esq. 2
           Born: Apr 1809 - Little Washington, Chester Co, PA 3
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           Died: 9 Mar 1879 - the Sewickley valley, PA 1
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         Father: David Shields (1780-1857) 3 4 5
         Mother: Eliza Leet (Abt 1784-1872) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 8 Oct 1832 or 1833 2 6

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Wife Amelia Neville Chaplin ^{1 2 7}

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           Born: 1 Dec 1812 6
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         Father: John Huntington Chaplin (1783-1822) 1 8
         Mother: Harriet Craig (1785-1867) 1 7 9

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1 F Eliza S. Shields ³

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2 M William C. Shields ³

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3 M David Shields ³

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4 F Amelia Shields ³

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         Spouse: James B. Oliver (      -      ) 3

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5 F Lydia H. Shields ³

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         Spouse: William L. Jones (      -      ) 3

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6 F Wilhelmina Shields ³

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7 F Rebecca Shields ³

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8 M Thomas L. Shields ³

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas L. Shields

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He was a member of the Philadelphia bar, also practiced in Allegheny and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania. He was a fine speaker and an able attorney. He was a whig, and one of the original organizers of the Republican party, at Lafayette hall. He was a good agriculturist and horticulturist, and a keen sportsman.

He was a large landholder, of Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 431, 508.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 360.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 508.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1457.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 431.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 26.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 25.

9 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 359.