SHIPHERD, Edward P. 1830-1913

SHIPERD, DOYLE, VENDENBERG

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/2/2011 at 22:47:53

SUDDEN DEATH OSAGE PIONEER

E. P. Shipherd Dies at Home Saturday Night at Age of Eighty-Two

CAME TO IOWA IN 1856

Was County Treasure Eight Years,
and Successful Merchant in Osage

Edward P. Shipherd was born in Elyria, Ohio, on April 6, 1830 and passed away at his home in Osage on August 16, 1913, aged 82 years, 4 months and 10 days.

Mr. Shipherd was the second son of Reverend John J. Shipherd who was the founder of Oberlin College, now the leading Congregational college in the country, and who later founded Olivett College in Michigan, where he died at the age of forty-two.

In 1856 Mr. Shipherd became a resident of Mitchell County and has been one of its leading citizens. On January 1, 1874, he became county treasurer, and three times thereafter he was elected to that responsible office. For several years he was engaged in the hardware business in Osage and later in the grocery business. He retired from active business a number of years ago and with his wife he has lived a quiet and retired life, held in highest esteem by all who knew him.

On March 15, 1960, he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Doyle, a daughter of a Mitchell County pioneer. Mrs. Shipherd has been an invalid for several years, and it had been the desire of Mr. Shipherd to assist in her care while she might last. But it was not to be as the summons came very suddenly as he was preparing to retire about 11 o'clock Saturday night. He had had two bad spells during the week otherwise no sickness, being able on Saturday morning to go to the barber shop for his usual shave.

Mr. Shipherd was a prominent member of the Masonic lodge of this city and the funeral was conducted by that order from the Congregational church on Tuesday afternoon.

Interment was in the Osage Cemetery.

The surviving members of the family are Mrs. Shipherd, one daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Vendenberg, who has made her home with her parents for the past three years to assist in the care of her mother; and two sons, Edward L. of Carson, Washington, and Frank L. of Denver.

[Source is an Osage Public Library scrapbook]