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1020. JOSIAH HAZEN SHINN (6).--JOSIAH (5), BENJAMIN (4), --SAMUEL
(3), --THOMAS (2), JOHN (1) Josiah Hazen Shinn, eldest child of Josiah Carlock and Elizabeth Frances (Gilpin) Shinn,
was born at Russellville, Ark., 3/29/1849; learned to read at his father's knee in his third year; to Louisville, Ky., in 1854; entered school there in his sixth year, being placed in the third grade; to
Cincinnati in 1859; passed through the intermediate and high school grades of the schools of that city; graduated at the Ohio Normal School in 1869; admitted to the bar at Cincinnati 1872, but never
practiced; he was examined for admission by Stanley Matthews, afterwards Associate Justice of the U. S. at Washington; Judge Hoadley, T. D. Lincoln and Henry Snow; taught school for eighteen years in Ohio,
Kentucky and Arkansas; married, 1/7/1875, at Bridgeport, Franklin County, Ky., Mildred Carlton, daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Mueller) Williams. The father of the bride was a soldier in the 5th
Kentucky Orphan Brigade, C. S. A., and grandson of Jesse Williams of Nelson County, Va., a Revolutionary Soldier. Mr. Shinn moved to Arkansas in 1882; institute instructor for five years under W.
E. Thompson; State Superintendent; President State Teachers' Association 1887; Chief Clerk in office of Secretary of State under Elias B. Moore and Ben. B. Chism 1885-1890; State Superintendent of
Public Instruction 1890-1894; received the highest vote cast for any man on the state ticket; established the first State Normal Schools in Arkansas while in this office; organized the Southern Educational
Association at Moorehead City, N. C., in 1891, and was elected its first President; re-elected at Chattanooga, Tenn, in 1892; Vice-President National Educational Association 1892; placed specially by the
Legislature of Arkansas in charge of the Arkansas Educational Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893; appointed Judge in the Liberal Arts Department of the World's Fair by the U. S. Commission
1893; to the Russian Empire in 1894-1895, where he was presented to Emperer Nicholas I, at the Anitchkoff Palace. Writer for the Little Rock Gazette and Democrat; editor and publisher for ten years of the
Arkansas Teacher and Southern School Journal"; established the first Chautauquas in Arkansas at Springdale, Mammoth Spring and Fort Smith in 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901; lecturer 1896 and 1897 in
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri; President of Springdale College 1898-1901; was appointed to the Accounts Division, Indian Office, Department of Interior, Washington, D. C., 1901;
to the Indian Warehouse, Chicago, Ill., 1902. Mr. Shinn has published the following books and pamphlets: "The Public School and the College, 1891; "The South in Public Education," 1891;
Vassar College, Pamphlet, 1891; "Illustrated Arkansas," 1892; "History of the American People," 1893; "History of Education in Arkansas," published by the U. S. Government,
1899; "Russia at the World's Fair," in English and Russian, 1894, This was republished by Russian governmental officials. "History of Arkansas," for schools, 1895; "Primary History
of the United States," 1899; "History of the Russian Empire," for Libraries, in preparation. Registrar of the S. A. R. for Arkansas, 1892-3-4. Member of the American Institute, 1894; Honorary
Member of the Pennsylvania and West Virginia Historical Societies, 1894; Member of the Imperial Russian Geographical and Historical Societies, 1894; Member of the Christian Church, a good speaker and a
Democrat. His wife, Mildred Carlton Shinn, also a member of the Christian Church, was prominent in Church and social circles in Little Rock, and other parts of Arkansas; is a woman of strong convictions, and
her influence has always been given to the suppression of liquor selling and other forms of vice; progressive in religious matters, she always favored advanced methods for the propagation of the Gospel at
home and abroad; a member of the C. W. B. M. of her own church, and of the W. C. T. U. wherever she has resided; of the Society for the Rescue of Fallen Women at Little Rock; of the Co-Operative Club for the
betterment of all classes, in which she took an active interest in Social Science and Economics. At the death of her mother, in 1876, she undertook to rear four of her brothers and sisters; Margaret
Williams, now the wife of James W. Wells, Bentonville, Ark; Mattie Williams, for eight years clerk in the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Little Rock, Ark., and still so employed;
Jo Desha Williams, now a successful merchant at Russellville, Ark., and Julian Otis Williams, now and for ten years past a compositor on the Little Rock Gazette and Democrat, Little Rock, Ark. In 1892
she received Zeller Hazen Shinn, son of her husband's brother, into her family, and kept him until 1897, when he joined the 1st Arkansas Volunteers in the Spanish-American War; then came the care of
her own father and of the stepfather of her husband. Through all this labor she found time for every good work of the neighborhood and exerted a good influence over the moral and intellectual status of
every place in which she lived. Her own house was always in order, and she always found time to aid every good work with her preserce, her means and her whole soul. Two busier people have rarely ever
been united as happily as these, and their silver wedding, 1/7/1900, was a milestone in their lives which showed them the appreciation others had for them. Four hundred silver presents from all parts of the
United States made the event one never to be forgotten. (See Frontispiece. Also engraving facing page 160.) Children of Josiah Hazen and Mildred C. (Williams) Shinn. 1. Grace Electra Shinn (7), b.
at Bridgeport, Franklin County, Ky., 10/9/1875; d. of typhoid-malarial fever at Russellville, Ark., 10/23/1885. No more brilliant and no better child was ever born. 2. Joseph Roy
Longworth Shinn (7), b. at Bridgeport, Ky., 3/18/1880. Educated in the public schools and Tharp's Academy at Little Rock, Ark. Amanuensis for his father in the preparation of many books; offered
for enlistment in the Spanish-American War, but was rejected on account of age; manager of the Springdale, Mammoth Spring and Ft. Smith Chautauquas; clerk in the population division
12th census, Washington, D. C.; stenographic course Greggs Business College, Washington, D. C., and under Prof. Cross of the Chicago University; business manager of the Genealogical and
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