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SHINN, George Wolfe, clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 December, 1839. He was educated at the public schools, at Virginia theological school, and the Philadelphia divinity-school, and was graduated at the latter in 1863. He entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, and has been rector of churches in Philadelphia, Shaxnokin, and Lack Haven, Pennsylvania, Troy, New York, and of Grace church, Newton, Massachusetts, where he still (1888) remains. He has been head master of St. Paul's school, Troy, edited for ten years "The Teachers' Assistant," contributed articles to church periodicals, and has published" Manual of Instruction upon the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels for the Christian Year" (New York, 1874); " Manual of the Prayer-Book" (1875); "Manual of Church History " (1876) ; "Stories for the Happy Days of Christmas Time" (1879); " Questions about our Church" (1880); "Questions that trouble Beginners in Religion" (1882); and edited a "Prayer-Book and Hymnal for the Sunday-School" (1885).
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