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  2. John G. Shedd - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Born on a New Hampshire farm on July 20, 1850, [1] Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. [2] By 1901, he had worked his way up to a vice-presidency and took over as president upon Field's death in 1906. [1] Field himself described Shedd as "the greatest merchant in the ...

  3. Shedd Aquarium - Wikipedia

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    Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium. [2]

  4. Marshall Field's - Wikipedia

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    The board of Marshall Field and Company appointed John G. Shedd, (1850–1926), whom Field had once called "the greatest merchant in the United States", to serve as the company's new president. [5] Shedd became head of a company that employed 12,000 people in Chicago (two-thirds of them in retail) and was doing about $25 million in yearly ...

  5. The Shedd Institute - Wikipedia

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    The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, is a performing arts company, cultural arts center, and community music school in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The institute has three performance venues, various community meeting rooms, and extensive music education facilities. It presents annually an array of culturally diverse festivals, concert ...

  6. Shedd Park Fieldhouse - Wikipedia

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    December 30, 1974. The Shedd Park Fieldhouse is the historic fieldhouse in Shedd Park, a public park in the South Lawndale community area of Chicago, Illinois. John G. Shedd, for whom the park and fieldhouse are named, gave the city the land for the park. The Prairie School building was designed by William Drummond and built in 1917.

  7. Rosehill Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    John G. Shedd, Chairman of Marshall Field & Company, philanthropist, founder of the Shedd Aquarium; Milton Sills, actor "The Heart Bandit", "The Hawk's Nest", "The Sea Wolf" Edwin Silverman, co-founder of Essaness Theatres [11] Roslyn Simon, Wife of Justice Seymour Simon, Chicago Philanthropist and Miss Philadelphia (1932)

  8. South Lawndale, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Washtenaw Park has a baseball diamond and offers a variety of arts and crafts classes for adults as well as day camps for kids. Shedd Park is a smaller park in Little Village named for John G. Shedd (known to most Chicagoans as the founder of the Shedd Aquarium). Piotrowski Park is the neighborhood's largest public park and is the most popular ...

  9. Colony House (Keene, New Hampshire) - Wikipedia

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    The Colony House is a historic house at 104 West Street in Keene, New Hampshire. Built in 1819 and enlarged about 1900, it is a good example of Federal period architecture, and is notable for its association with Horatio Colony, a prominent local businessman and the city's first mayor. The house, now operated as a bed and breakfast inn, was ...

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