Short Biography of Charles F. Shedd

Charles Shedd, son of Capt. Abel & Rebecca (Adams) Shedd, born in Rindge, Oct. 21, 1802. Dartmouth College, 1826. He was instructor, eight years, in the Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, New Hampshire. In 1834, he removed to New Ipswich, and became principal of the Appleton Academy, in that place. In this position he was deservedly successful & popular. After seven years labor in this place, he removed to Campton, New Hampshire, and in Feb. 1842, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church there and remained 15 years. Subsequently he removed to Minnesota.

Source: "History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the date of the Rowley Canada or Massachusetts Charter to the Present Time, 1736 - 1874, with a Genealogical Register of the Rindge Families" ¹⁴⁹⁷

REV. Charles Shedd was born 21 Oct 1802 in Rindge, N.H. He parpared for college at New Ispwich and Hanover, N. H., from 1819 to 1822. At teh age of twenty he entered Dartmouth College, where he maintained an excellent standing in his studies and graduated four year later in the class of 1826, among his classmates being his cousin Rev. Henry Shedd. After his graduation he taught for eight years at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H., and in 1834 became principal of Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, N.H., one of the leading preparatory schools of its day. This relation continued until 1841, during which time he met with marked success as an instructor; he then reisigned his position to study divinity and on 24 Mar. 1842 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Campon, N. H. His abilities as a scholar and his ruch fund of information acquired by much reading helped to make him equally successful in this new field as a preacher. His social nature made many friends and the long period of his stay over this charge gave evidence of the high esteem in which he was held. He remained in this position for nearly fifteen years and in 1856 removed to Minnesota and settled in Mantorville for about two years. After 1858 his services were chiefly given to home missionary work in various places in Minnesota, including organizing a church in Zumbrota in 1857, and preaching in Claremont 1858-1873, Wasioja and Mantorville 1858 to 1864, and Watseca 1873 to 1880. He gave up the regular ministry in 1873. He organized in part or wholly several churches in that section and continued his labors until enfeebled heath compelled him to retire. In 1880 he removed to Zumbrota, Minn. to live near his son Henry, and he died there on 7 May 1885, in his eighty third year.

He married in Plainfield, N. H., 15 Aug. 1828, ELIZA ROWELL, born 27 Feb. 1804, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Hannah (Chase) Rowell. She survived him, residing in Zumbrota, Minn., and later in Minneapolis, Minn. where she died 27 Sept. 1900, in her ninety-seventh year.

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