SHANHAN, Jeremiah Francis, R. C. bishop, born in Silver Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 17 July, 1834; died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 24 September, 1886. He received his early education in St. Joseph's college, near Susquehanna, and afterward studied for the priesthood in St. Charles Borromeo seminary, Philadelphia. He was ordained a priest on 3 July, 1859, and placed in charge of the preparatory seminary at Glen Riddle. The see of Harrisburg was created in 1868, and Dr. Shanahan was consecrated its first bishop on 18 July of that year. He introduced many sisterhoods into his diocese, and built schools, academies, and charitable institutions. When he was raised to the episcopate there were in it 3 convents, 7 parochial schools, 22 priests, and about 20.000 Roman Catholics. At his death the number of priests was 51; churches, 51 : chapels and stations, 75 ; academies, 7 ; orphan asylums, 3 ; parochial schools, 29; while the Roman Catholic population had increased to more than 35,000.