Elliott Fitch Shepard
Elliott Fitch Shepard was a New York lawyer, banker, and owner of the Mail and Express newspaper. Shepard recruited and organized the 51st Regiment, New York Volunteers, which was named the Shepard Rifles in his honor. During the American Civil War he was a Union Army recruiter and subsequently earned the rank of colonel. He was later a founder and benefactor of several institutions and banks, including American College.
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Elliott Fitch Shepard was a New York lawyer, banker, and owner of the Mail and Express newspaper. Shepard was married to Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt, who was the granddaughter of philanthropist, business magnate, and family patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt. Shepard’s Briarcliff Manor residence Woodlea and the Scarborough Presbyterian Church, which he founded nearby, are contributing properties to the Scarborough Historic District. Shepard recruited and organized the 51st Regiment, New York Volunteers, which was named the Shepard Rifles in his honor. During the American Civil War he was a Union Army recruiter and subsequently earned the rank of colonel. He was later a founder and benefactor of several institutions and banks, including American College, Tarsus Mersin, Strong & Shepard, and Theron R. Strong & Strong. He died on February 18, 1868 in the Church of the Incarnate Word in New York City. He is buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery in Queens, New Jersey, where he was buried with his wife and two children in 1875. He had a son, Fitch, and a daughter, Delia Maria Dennis, who were both born in Jamestown, NY. She was a descendant of Thomas Shepard and James Fitch. She is the great-great-granddaughter of William Henry Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt fortune. She died in 1868, and was buried at Mount Sinai in New Jersey on February 19, 1876.
She had three children, two of whom died in infancy. She also had two step-children, Burritt Hamilton and Augustus Dennis, both of whom also died in childhood. Shepard had one son, Noah Shepard, who became a prominent lawyer and banker. He also had one daughter, Eliza Shepard, whose father was the president of a banknote-engraving company. Shepard also had a daughter-in-law, who died in childbirth in 1881. She and her husband were married in 1883. She wrote a book about the life of Elliott Fitch and his family, “The Fitch-Shepard Family: A History of the Fitch Family and the American Bank Note Company” She also wrote a biography of her father, “Noah Shepard: A Biography of a Father and His Son” (1883) She also co-founded the New York State Bar Association in 1876, and in 1884 was its fifth president. In 1875, Shepard became a partner in the law firm Strong, Strong, and Shepard, continuing to practice law for the next 25 years. Shepard served as aide-de-camp to General Edwin D. Morgan during the Civil War. In 1862 he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General for half of New York state, reporting to New York’s governor on troop organization, equipment, and discipline. He enlisted 47,000 men from the surrounding area, and may have influenced the promotion of George W. Whitman, brother of the poet Walt Whitman, to be promoted to major.
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