Daniel Shed genealogy - ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920 (1921) (14784325393)

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Title: Daniel Shed genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Daniel Shed of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1327-1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Shedd, Frank Edson, 1856-1916 Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner), 1872-1927 Shedd Family Association
Subjects: Shedd family
Publisher: Boston : The Shedd Family Association
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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am-bridge, for thirty years in West Somerville, Mass., and later inJamaica Plain, Mass., where he died 1 Jan. 1908. He married 10 Oct. 1865, Emily Brown Moore, born 12 July1841, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Stephan) Moore of Washing-ton, D. C. She survives him and resides with her daughters inJamaica Plain. Children: i. Frank Simpson9, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 12 Sept. 1866; wasemployed by Jordan, Marsh and Co.; d. in Somerville, 25 Nov.1894, unmarried. 842. ii. Edward Moore, b. in Roxbury, Mass., 23 Apr. 1868. hi. Helen Sarah, b. in Cambridge 5 Dec. 1869; resides in JamaicaPlain, unmarried. iv. Alonzo Foster, b. in Cambridge, 28 June 1872; d. in Somer-ville, 18 Aug. 1876. 843. v. William Edmund Langford, b. in Somerville, 10 Sept. 1876.vi. Emily Orme, b. in Somerville, 17 May 1883; resides in Jamiaca Plain, unmarried. 655. WILLIAM EDMUND8 SHEDD (347. Alonzo Foster1,James6, Nathan*, James*, James3, Zechariah2, Daniel1), was bornin Cambridge, Mass., 30 Nov. 1840, and was educated in the
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QQ 9 EIGHTH GENERATION 619 public schools of his native city. At the age of eighteen years hewent to work as a bookkeeper in Boston and three years later in 1861 entered the employ, as an accountant, of the firm of Jordan,Marsh and Company, with which notable house he remainedconnected until his death, a period of nearly half a century. Atabout the time he started with this firm the Civil War broke out,and temporarily relinquishing his commercial career for the callto national duty, he volunteered for the Union army and on 14 Aug. 1862 was mustered as private into Co. K, Thirteenth Massachu-setts Volunteers. At first he was assigned to duty in the officeof the Adjutant General in Washington, D. C, but the nextsummer he went to the front with his company, was captured bythe confederates while he was caring for wounded soldiers, andwas sent to Libby Prison. Fortunately an exchange of prisonersthe next day returned Mr. Shedd to the Union army, so heescaped the hardships of confinement in