SHREVE, Thomas H., journalist, born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1808; died in Louisville, Kentucky, 23 December, 1853. He was educated in the academy at Alexandria, engaged in mercantile pursuits, settled in Cincinnati in 1830, and in 1834 purchased a share in the " Mirror," a weekly literary journal. In 1838 he established himself as a merchant in Louisville, and subsequently he became one of the editors of the Louisville "Journal." From the time of his editorial connection with the Cincinnati "Mirror" he contributed essays and poems to magazines. He published " Drayton, an American Tale " (New York, 1851). Some of his verses are reprinted in William T. Coggeshall's "Poets and Poetry of the West" (Columbus, 1860).--His cousin, Samuel Henry, engineer, born in Trenton. N. J., 2 August, 1829; died in New York city, 27 November, 1884. He 'was graduated at Princeton in 1848, and at Harvard law-school in 1850, and afterward studied civil engineering. He had charge of the construction of several railroads, and became in 1875 engineer of the New York rapid transit commission. He was consulting engineer of the Metropolitan elevated railroad and engineer-in-chief of the Brooklyn elevated railroad. He was the author of a work on " The Strength of Bridges and Roofs " (New York, 1873), which was translated into French, and at the time of his death had almost completed a treatise on the "Theory of the Arch."