Shepherd, James

Shepherd, James, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Westfield, Mass., Dec. 14, 1802. In 1833 he was received on trial into the New England Conference, was ordained deacon in 1830, and elder in 1837. He continued to labor without intermission until seized with an illness which terminated his life, May 22, 1855. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1856, p. 41.