Thomas L. Shields and Amelia Neville Chaplin

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Husband Thomas L. Shields ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Thomas S. Shields Esq. 3
           Born: Apr 1809 - Little Washington, Chester Co, PA 2 4
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           Died: 9 Mar 1879 - the Sewickley valley, PA 1
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         Father: David Shields (1780-1857) 2 4 5 6
         Mother: Eliza Leet (Abt 1784-1872) 2 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 8 Oct 1832 or 1833 3 7

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Wife Amelia Neville Chaplin ^{1 3 8}

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           Born: 1 Dec 1812 7
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         Father: John Huntington Chaplin (1783-1822) 1 9
         Mother: Harriet Craig (1785-1867) 1 10 11

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Children

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1 F Eliza S. Shields ^{2 4}

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2 M William C. Shields ^{2 4}

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           Died: 3 May 1862 - Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Co, VA 4
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           Note: Civil War: he was first lieutenant of Co. G, 28th P. V. I., and was killed in front of his company at the battle of Chancellorsville. His body was never recovered.

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3 M David Shields ^{2 4}

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4 F Amelia Shields ^{2 4 12}

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         Spouse: James B. Oliver (1844-Bef 1908) 2 4 13 14

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5 F Lydia H. Shields ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: William L. Jones (      -      ) 2 4

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6 F Wilhelmina Shields ^{2 4}

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7 F Rebecca Shields ^{2 4}

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8 M Thomas L. Shields ^{2 4}

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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.

He was educated for the law and became a member of the Philadelphia bar, subsequently being admitted to practice in all of the state and federal courts of his district, and until 1854 was active in professional work. In that year he withdrew from legal pursuits and moved to Cromwell [sic] County, Ohio, then to a farm in Sewickley township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, near Shields Station, there building a brick house. He was a fluent and impressive public speaker, a Whig in politics, and was one of the organizers of this party in his locality. He was ever a gentleman of influential position, and possessed the quality of easily adapting himself to changed conditions, so that, after moving to his farm, he became a respected authority on matters agricultural and horticultural, as before he had been a reliable sdurce of information on subjects legal.

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

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 954.

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

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

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

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

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

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 26, 954.

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

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

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

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 1, 5.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 1.

14 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 4.