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Title: Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania Vol. 3 / editor-in-chief, John W. Jordan.
Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921.
Pg. 1471, 1472
SHEPHARD - The name of SHEPHARD is to be met with very frequently in this country, and came to it from England and Germany. The form of the name varies, as it is spelled SHEPPERD, SHEPHERD, SHEPARD, etc. The family under discussion in this review came from Germany and has been resident in America many years, settling some generations ago in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
(I) JOHN SHEPHARD was born in Germantown, and was connected with the manufacture of bricks, with which industry his family has been identified for many years, and are still actively engaged in it. He was in active military service throughout the Mexican War, and died in Germantown. He married LOUISA ___, born in Germantown.
(II) JOHN (2) SHEPHARD, son of JOHN (1) and LOUISA SHEPHARD, was born in Fayette Co., Pa., and died in Braddock, in the same state. He enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Regiment Pa. Volunteer Infantry, served three years, and then resumed his manufacturing interests. These he carried on for a time in Germantown, then moved to Fayette Co., and finally, in 1870, to Braddock, Allegheny Co. In association with two other men he laid out the town of Braddock. He was a member of the school board of the town. He married LOUISA FIX, born in Germany, came to this country when two years old, and died in Germantown at the age of 88 years. They had 13 children: SUSAN, JOSEPH, MARY, ANDREW, SADIE, ANNIE, LAURA, HENRY A., SAMUEL, WILLIE, LIZZIE, KATE, JOHN, the last four named being deceased.
(III) HENRY A. SHEPARD, son of JOHN (2) and LOUISA (FIX) SHEPHARD, was born in Braddock, Allegheny Co., Pa., Nov. 2, 1870. He abandoned the brick-making trade to enter the employ of the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, where he commenced as a water boy. He remained there since that time, advancing in rank from time to time, and in 1908 was appointed to the position of night foreman, in which capacity he is serving the company at the present time. In 1904 he built a fine brick residence at Fourth and Price streets, North Braddock, a section he remembers as being thickly wooded in his youth. He is a member of Braddock Lodge, No. 510, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also interest in mines, of which his father opened many in the vicinity of Braddock. He is a member of the Christian Church of Braddock, of which his parents were charter members, this being the first church in the town. MR. SHEPARD married, in 1896, MARGARET SHAW, born in Braddock, and they have had children: HARRY, deceased; RUSSELL, ANDREW JACKSON, ALBERT HENRY, BESSIE, deceased.
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