Isaac Shadd (1830 - abt. 1896)

Born 1830 in Delaware, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Amelia (Freeman) Shadd — married about 1850 in Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Isaac Shadd is Notable.

Isaac D. Shadd was a newspaper publisher, printer, politician, and bookkeeper. Before the American Civil War, he and his sister Mary Ann Shadd moved to Chatham, Ontario and published the anti-slavery newspaper, The Provincial Freeman. He and his wife taught at the Chatham Mission School. He was involved in the planning of the John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and led the Chatham Vigilance Committee to rescue Sylvanus Demarest in 1858. He returned to the United States and served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1871 until 1876. From 1874 to 1875, he was the Speaker of the House.

Isaac Shadd, son of abolitionist Abram Shadd and Harriet Parnell was born free in Delaware in 1830.

He died in 1896.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4H9-CY6 : 21 December 2020), Isaac Shadd in household of Abram D Shadd, West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4PH-P82 : 19 February 2021), I D Shadd, Greenville, Washington, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 91, sheet 122B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,668.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Shadd