SHELTON, Frederick William, author, born in Jamaica, Long Island, New York, in 1814; died in Carthage Landing, New York, 20 June, 1881. He was graduated at Princeton in 1834, studied for the ministry, and took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1847. He was rector of the church in Huntington, L. I., for several years, also of the church in Fishkill, New York, and in 1854 accepted a call to Montpelier, Vermont About ten years later he removed to Carthage Landing, New York, and devoted himself chiefly to authorship. Mr. Shelton's publications were "The Trollopiad, or Travelling Gentleman in America," a satirical poem (New York, 1837); "Salander and the Dragon," a romance (1851) ; "The Rector of St. Bardolph's, or Superannuated" (1853); "Up the River," a series of rural sketches on the Hudson (1853); "Chrystalline, or the Heiress of Fall-Down Castle," a romance (1854); and "Peeps from a Belfry, or Parish Sketch-Book" (1855). He also published several lectures on popular topics, and was a frequent contributor to the "Knickerbocker Magazine" and other periodicals. To the former he contributed a series of local humorous sketches, beginning with "The Kushow Property. a Tale of Crowhill in 1848," followed by "The Tinnecum Papers," and other articles, including criticisms of Charles Lamb, Vincent Bourne, and other authors. Two of his lectures are entitled "The Gold Mania" and "The Use and Abuse of Reason." Mr. Shelton was the intimate friend of William Wilson, the poet-publisher, Gulian C. Verplanck, Frederick S. Cozzens, and other literary men. With the above-named writers he was a contributor to the "Knickerbocker Gallery," published for the benefit of Lewis Gaylord Clark (q. v.) after his retirement from the editorship of the "Knickerbocker Magazine."