FORREST SHEPHERD, a son of Daniel Shepherd, was born in Boscawen, N. H., October 31, 1800. He was prepared for college, at Phillips Exeter Academy; entered Dartmouth in 1823; left in 1826, and joined the Senior class in Yale College; and received a Bachelor's degree at Yale, and Dartmouth, in 1827. Since graduating, he has made New Haven, Ct., his place of residence. With the exception of a few years, occupied in the business of teaching and the study of the natural sciences, and the year 1841-2, (during which he was a member of the Divinity School, of Yale College,) he has been absent from home, a large portion of the time, on geological and geographical explorations. For these purposes, he visited, prior to 1847, many of the states and territories of the union ; during 1847, the mineral lands between the north shore of lake Superior and Hudson's Bay, under a commission from the Hudson's Bay Company; in 1848, England and Wales, and the Indian country north of lake Huron ; in 1849, the Isthmus of Panama, Cuba, New Grenada, Western Mexico and the quicksilver district of California; and, in 1850, and 1851, nearly the whole of California.
For a few years past, he has been Professor of Economic Geology and Agricultural Chemistry, in Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, where he has delivered an annual course of lectures.

Professor Shepherd was married, April 29, 1832, to Miss Sophia White Storer, of Rutland, Vt. He has had six children; three of whom, Forresta G., Sophia White, and George Rubens, are living.
  

Source:  Class of 1827, of Dartmouth College;  Proceedings at their meeting in July, 1852; and Brief Notices of the Members.  Lynn:  W. W. Kellogg, Printer Over the Depot, Typographic Hall, 1853.

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