Shepard, Samuel (2), Dd

Shepard, Samuel (2), D.D., a Congregational minister, was born in Portland, Conn., November, 1772 He graduated at Yale College in 1793 and was ordained, April 30, 1795, pastor in Lenox, Mass., where he remained until the close of his life. He was a member of the corporations of Middlebury and Williams colleges and vice-president of the latter until his death, Jan. 5, 1846. He published a few occasional sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2, 364.