Sheehan
PATRICK AUGUSTINE, an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and novelist, born at Mallow, County Cork, in 1852. He was educated at St. Colman's College and at Maynooth. He was pastor of Roman Catholic churches in several cities in England and Ireland, up to 1903, when he became canon of Cloyne. He was a prolific writer in all lines of literature, but is best known as a novelist. His books afford graphic pictures of Irish life and character. They include "My New Curate" (1899); "Parerga" (1908); "Miriam Lucas" (1912); "Graves at Kilmorna" (1915). The latter book was published after his death, which occurred in 1913.
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Sheehan
They are both excellent tools and do the work in a satisfactory manner. ROMILLY, M. A clever Swiss horologist. He was held in high esteem in Paris, where he passed the greater portion of his life. He was born at Geneva in 1714 and died in 1796.
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Sheehan (II)
PERLEY POORE, an American editor and writer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1875. He graduated from Union College in 1898, and engaged in newspaper work in New York, London, and Paris, until 1908. He was in charge of the Paris edition of the "New York Herald," from 1905 to 1907, and from 1908 to 1910 was associate editor of the Munsey publications. He wrote "The Seer" (1913); "Those Who Walk in Darkness" (1915); "If You Believe It, It's So" (1919). He also collaborated in the writing of several plays.
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Sheep Tick
a well-known dipterous insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the family Hippoboscidæ or horse flies. The pupæ produced from the eggs are shining oval bodies which become attached to the wool of the sheep. From these issue the tick, which is horny, bristly, of a rusty ochre color, and wingless. It fixes its head in the skin of the sheep and extracts the blood, leaving a large round tumor. Called also sheep louse.
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Sheepshead
an esteemed food fish of the Atlantic Coast. In shape and coloring this fish resembles the sunfish and the croppie, but it attains a length of thirty inches. It is related to the sea-bream.
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Sheeptick
. See Tick
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Sheerness
a seaport and royal dockyard in Kent, England; 52 miles E. of London; occupies the N. W. angle of the Isle of Sheppey, and thus commands the mouths of the Thames and Medway. It consists of the four divisions of Blue Town, Mile Town, Westminster, and Marine Town, the last of which has become a favorite watering-place, while the first contains the dockyard and is strongly fortified. Sheerness has two churches, a Roman Catholic chapel (1864), and large naval and military barracks. The dockyard, covering 60 acres, comprises wet and dry docks. Captured by the Dutch under De Ruyter in 1667, Sheerness was shortly after fortified, but the dockyard was not commenced till 1814, since which time large sums have been expended on its construction. Pop. about 18,000.
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Sheet Lead
One method of making sheet lead is to suffer the melted metal to run out of a box or vessel through a long horizontal slit, upon a table covered with sand, when the box is drawn over it, leaving the melted lead behind to congeal. These sheets may then be rolled to any desired thickness, and also made more uniform. A later improved method is to cast thick square blocks of lead, which are subsequently drawn into long sheets between two heavy rolls; the sheet in the meanwhile being supported upon a long table which travels on wooden rollers. Another method is to force the metal by hydraulic power through the annular space formed by an outer cylinder and central core. This makes lead-pipe, which may be slit lengthwise and opened out into sheets. The Chinese pour melted lead upon a paper-protected flagstone, and press it down into a sheet by applying another similarly prepared stone above. See LEAD.
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Sheffield
a manufacturing city of Yorkshire, England. It was noted in the time of Chaucer for the manufacture of edged tools. It is still the center of the British cutlery trade. The Bessemer process of making steel was put into practical operation first at Sheffield. The manufactures embrace almost every sort of implement, instrument, and edged tool known, including knives, razors, scissors, surgical instruments, mechanical instruments, carpenters' tools, saws, scythes, sickles, spades, shovels, hammers, and vises. There are also enormous manufactures of stoves, grates, engines, steel rails, tires, axles, and ship armor. In 1901 Sheffield had a population of 408,994. The city has no buildings of historical importance comparable to Westminster Abbey or the Tower of London , but it is a city in which municipal problems can be studied to great advantage. Millions of dollars have been expended in straightening and widening streets and in erecting modern homes for workmen. Public parks, schools, colleges, sewerage, lighting, water supply, and tramways have been managed with a degree of honesty and efficiency that shame the average American city. See also CUTLERY. 2026 Editor's Note: By way of comparison, Sheffield today has about 560,000 residents, up from the 408,994 this article reports for 1901. (Ed: BR 2026-07-17)
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Sheffield
a city of Alabama, in Colbert co. It is on the Tennessee river, and on the Louisville and Nashville , the Northern Alabama, and the Southern railroads. Its important industries include iron products and lumbering. There are also extensive coal mines in the neighborhood, and the farming interests are quite important. Pop. (1910) 4,865; (1920) 6,682.
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Shelburne (JAMES M an American educator)
JAMES M., an American educator, born near Taylorsville, Spencer co., Ky., in 1867. He was educated at Georgetown Ge College, Ky ., and graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in 1900. In the same year he was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and filled pastorates in Alabama and Virginia. In 1913 he was elected president of Howard College, serving until 1917, when he engaged in educational work for the War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. From 1918 he was pastor of the First Church of Gadsden , Ala.
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Shelbyville
a city and countyseat of Shelby co., Ind.; on the Big Blue river, and on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, the Cleveland , Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroads; 26 miles S. E. of Indianapolis. It is in a rich agricultural section, and has a large general eral trade, flour, saw and planing mills, and manufactories of barrels, ice, glue, soda-fountains, baking powder, carriages, and furniture. Pop. (1910) 9,500; (1920) 9,701,
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