Biography
Lemuel Shattuck
American politician
Lemuel Shattuck (15 October , in Ashby, Massachusetts – 17 January , in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American educator, politician, historian, bookseller, and publisher.
Biography
Shattuck taught at Troy and Albany, and from to , he was at the frontier outpost of Detroit, where he taught at a Lancasterian school affiliated with the Catholepistemiad, which later became known as the University of Michigan.[1]
Shattuck became a merchant as a bookseller and publisher in Concord, Massachusetts, in and was elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society in [2] He was a member of the Boston City Council and served for several years as a representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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At the age of 46, Shattuck retired from business to devote himself to his other interests. His research for his book on Concord history pointed up to him the neglect of vital records.
Lemuel shattuck biography of william shakespeare William Shakespeare English poet and playwright — Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and sonnets. His father William was a successful local businessman, and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner. Relatively prosperous, it is likely the family paid for Williams education, although there is no evidence he attended university.This was one of his motivations for joining others to found the American Statistical Association in He also promoted legislation that required a better system for the registration of vital information. This law was passed in His work on a Boston census in resulted in him being summoned as a consultant for the United States census.
His Report on the Sanitary Condition of Massachusetts in on a sanitary survey of Massachusetts was later praised as amazingly farsighted.[3] His role in designing and implementing the Boston Census of took him to Washington to help design federal models based on the same.[4] His Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts in has been described as a prophetic document in its anticipation of public health developments.[5]
In , he married Clarissa Baxter, and he was survived by three children.[3]
Recognition
Lemuel Shattuck is remembered at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where his name appears on the school's frieze.
The names of 23 pioneers of public health and tropical medicine were chosen to be honored when the School was built in [6]
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston is named after him.
Shattuck Street in Boston, the street on which Harvard Medical School sits, is also named after Lemuel Shattuck.
Works
- History of Concord, Mass. (Boston, )
- Vital Statistics of Boston ()
- The Census of Boston ()
- Report on the Sanitary Condition of Massachusetts ()
- Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck ()