Short Biography of James A. and Eunice Adams Shedd

2nd cousin of James Adams Shedd, daughter of Major Benjamin Adams, of New Ipswich, N.H.

Source: "Book of the Lockes: A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of William Locke, of Woburn. With an appendix containing a history of the Lockes in England, also of the family of John Locke, of Hampton, N. H., and kindred families and individuals" ¹⁴⁹⁸

Mr. Shedd was a Lawyer, resided several years in Michigan, and was afterwards in the practice of law at Dayton, O. for sixteen years; in 1847, he moved to Denmark, Iowa, and has become a farmer.

Source: "Book of the Lockes: A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of William Locke, of Woburn. With an appendix containing a history of the Lockes in England, also of the family of John Locke, of Hampton, N. H., and kindred families and individuals" ¹⁴⁹⁸

[James A. Shedd] fitted himself for college, studying by the blaze of an open fire, but did not enter college. He was a thorough Latin and Greek scholar, and very proficient in both French and German, so much so that he was often asked by Germans what part of Germany he came from. For a time he taught school and later went west, where in Champaign Co., Ohio, in 1831, he was admitted to the bar. Later he settled in Dayton, Ohio, where he practiced law until 1857, when he removed to a small farm near the village of Denmark, Iowa, where he passed the rest of his life. He was an earnest anti-slavery advocate, associating with many of the early leaders of abolition, even as early as 1836. He gave three sons to help preserve the Union, and when urged to apply for a pension which he might have had on account of the death of his youngest son killed at Vicksburg, he replied, "I gave my sons as a free will offering to my country and all the money in the world could not compensate the sacrifice."

Source: "Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920" ¹⁷¹⁰