Biography

07/09/1872 - 05/17/1947

Jesse Steiner Shepard (R4) Philadelphia (Part) County 1904-1906

Early Life:

Jesse Steiner Shepard, born July 9, 1872, Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; son of Henry W. and Mary M. Steiner Shepard; removed, parents, city of Philadelphia, 1880; public school education, city of Philadelphia; Central High School; Shortlidge Preparatory School, Media; Yale College, did not complete; University of Pennsylvania, Law School, 1896; commenced law practice, 1896; four times a State delegate; old common councilman, 1898-1902; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1904-1906*; resumed law practice, 1929; married, Elizabeth Landis, son, Henry Landis Shepard; died, May 17, 1947, home, Cambridge Apartments 501, Alden Park Manor, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County Pennsylvania; death certificate lists interment as Ivy Hill Cemetery, (also known as Germantown and Chestnut Hill Cemetery), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. No record of interment there.

Early Career:

Law practice, admitted to practice courts of Philadelphia County, State Supreme, Superior Courts, Federal Courts, United States Supreme Court, 1896; resumed law practice with his son, Henry Landis Shepard, Shepard and Shepard, 12 South 12^th Street, Philadelphia.  

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Trust officer, Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, 1920; trust officer, Tradesmen’s National Bank and Trust Company.

Past master, Heron Lodge 81, Free and Accepted Masons; member Keystone Chapter No.175 Royal Arch Masons; Pennsylvania Bar Association.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Four times a Pennsylvania State delegate; old common councilman, 22nd ward, Philadelphia, 1898-1902.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 4^th district, Philadelphia (Part) County, vacancy, death, John T. Harrison, 1903-1906; committee assignments, regular and extraordinary session of 1906, Banks and Building and Loan Associations, Congressional Apportionment, Elections (Chairman), Judicial Apportionment, Judiciary General, Municipal Affairs.

Cited:

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1906) Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 823, 829-834, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 804

Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Monday, May 19, 1947, page 8.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Monday, May 19, 1947, page 5.

*Elected February 16, 1904, to fill vacancy caused by death on December 18, 1903, of John T. Harrison.