SHEDD, William Greenough Thayer, author, born in Acton, Massachusetts, 21 June, 1820. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1839, and at Auburn theological seminary in 1843, and in 1844 was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Brandon, Vermont He became professor of English literature in the University of Vermont in 1845, which chair he held till appointed to that of sacred rhetoric in Auburn theological seminary in 1852. In 1854 he was made professor of church history in Andover theological seminary. In 1862 he became associate pastor of the Brick church (Presbyterian) in New York city, but he resigned in 1863, and was appointed to the professorship of biblical literature in Union theological seminary, and in 1874 to that, of systematic theology in the same institution, which he still (1888) holds. He has published "Eloquence a Virtue, or Outlines of Systematic Rhetoric; from the German of Dr. Francis Theremin" (New York, 1850); "Coleridge's Works, with Introductory Essays" (7 vols., 1853); "Lectures on the Philosophy of History" (Andover, 1856) ; "Discourses and Essays" (1856) ; " A Manual of Church History," from the German of Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke (2 vols., 1857) ; " The Confession of Augustine," with introductory essay (1860); "A History of Christian Doctrine" (2 vols., New York, 1863); "Homiletics and Pustotal Theology" (1867) ; "Sermons to the Natural Man" (1871); "Theological Essays" (1877) ;" Literary Essays "(1878) ; "Commentary on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans " (1879)."Sermons to the Spiritual Man" (1884) ; and "Doctrine of Endless Punishment" (1885). Dr. Shedd wrote the "Gospel of Mark" in vol. ii. of the translation of Lange's commentary; and contributed an introduction to Samuel R. Asbury's translation of Dr. Carl Ackerman's work, "The Christian Element in Plato and the Platonic Philosophy" (Edinburgh, 1860), and to the American edition of Dr. James McCosh's "Intuitions of the Mind" (New York, 1865).