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Authority record- CA QUA11932
- Person
- fl. 1936
J.H. Shepherd was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
- CA QUA01858
- Person
- d. 1933
Ralph K. Shepard, an architect based in Toronto, Ontario, entered into partnership with Dexter Delano Calvin in 1913. Over the ensuing years they designed numerous commercial, financial, residential,and educational buildings. Included in this long list is nearly thirty banks in various Canadian provinces, the Brock Building, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and the Ban Righ Women's Residence and the Douglas Library at Queen's University at Kingston. The firm dissolved upon the death of R.K. Shepard in 1933.
- CA QUA02815
- Person
- 22 Jul. 1884-19 Jul. 1967
Writer and English Professor Odell Shepard was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans during his brief term as an instructor of English at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1916-1917. His more extensive faculty tenure was as Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Harford, Connecticut, from 1917-1946, and was later as a guest lecturer there from 1946-1966. He was also the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1940-1943.
Shepards writing ranged from the academic, such as his Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Bronson Alcott, Pedlars Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott (Little, Brown, 1937) to his Book-of-the-Month selected novel, Jenkins Ear (Macmillan, 1951). Shepard also wrote collections of poetry, textbooks, essays, a fishing guide, and several histories. One of his histories, The Lore of the Unicorn, is a topic in one of Evanss letters.
Odell Shepard died on July 19, 1967, in New London, Connecticut.
- CA QUA01860
- Corporate body
- 1913-1933
The firm of Shepard and Calvin, located in Toronto, Ontario, was formed in 1913, when Ralph K. Shepard entered into partnership with Dexter Delano Calvin. Over the ensuing years they designed numerous commercial, financial, residential,and educational buildings. Included in this long list is nearly thirty banks in various Canadian provinces, the Brock Building, the Toronto Conservatory of Music, and the Ban Righ Women's Residence and the Douglas Library at Queen's University at Kingston. The firm dissolved upon the death of R.K. Shepard in 1933.
- CA QUA09753
- Person
- 1820-31 Jan. 1877
Henry Kirk Sheldon was a photographer based in Kingston, Ontario.