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SHEPPARD, Furman, lawyer, born in Bridge-ton. Cumberland County, New Jersey, 21 November, 1823. After graduation at Princeton in 1845 he studied law, and in 1848 was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia, where he has since practised. He was district attorney in 1868-'71, and again in 1874-'7. In the latter term he gave special attention to the prompt despatch of criminal cases during the Centennial exhibition of 1876. By establishing a magistrate's court on the exhibition grounds, he succeeded in having offenders arrested, indicted, tried, and sentenced within a few hours after the commission of the offence. This rapid proceeding was popularly designated "Sheppard's railroad," and it entirely broke up the preparations of the criminal class of the country for preying upon the thousands of daily visitors to the exhibition. For several years he has been a trustee of Jefferson medical college, a member of the American philosophical society, and an inspector of the Eastern state penitentiary in Philadelphia. Mr. Sheppard is the author of " The Constitutional Text-Book : a Practical and Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States" (Philadelphia, , 1855), and an abridged and modified edition of the same, entitled "The First Book of the Constitution" (1861). He has also contributed to the "Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences," edited by Professor Charles P. Krauth, D. D.
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