Clifford Kenyon Shipton (1902 - 1973)

Born 5 Aug 1902 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Died 4 Dec 1973 at age 71 in Ayer, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Clifford K. Shipton, a leading authority on American colonial history and biographer of thousands of Harvard men, died Tuesday. He was 71. Shipton's major work was the continuation of "Sibley's Harvard Graduates," biographical sketches of every man ever to be graduated from Harvard College. He published several thousand covering the Harvard classes of 1690-1776. His predecessor, John Langdon Sibley, had carried the work from the first class, 1642 through 1689 and left funds to carry on the work. Shipton was a member of the Harvard class of 1936 and received his master's and doctor's degrees from Harvard before becoming custodian of the Harvard archives in 1934. He retired in 1969.^[1]

m. Dorothy Boyd MacKillop

Interpretations of American History - Volume One

Sources

1. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA, Friday, Dec 07, 1973) Page: 53

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