The New International Encyclopædia/Shepard, Charles Upham

SHEPARD, Charles Upham (1804-86). An American mineralogist, born in Little Compton, R. I. He was graduated at Amherst in 1824, and later studied chemistry and mineralogy under the elder Silliman at Yale. In 1845 he returned to Amherst, taking the chair of chemistry and natural history, which he held until 1852. For the following twenty-five years he lectured on natural history, and in 1877 was made emeritus professor. Meanwhile in 1854 he was made professor of chemistry in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, which chair he held until 1861. Professor Shepard was the author of a Treatise on Mineralogy (1855), and a Report on the Geological Survey of Connecticut (1837).