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GEORGE SHIELD,

THE late well-known mechanical engineer, was born in New York State in the year 1810, and was nine years of age when he came West.  He learned the trade of a machinist with his father, Francis Shield.  After reaching his majority he served as foreman for Drennan, and afterwards obtained an interest in the establishment.  He was afterwards the mechanical brains of the firms of Graham, Wilson R Shield, and Yeatman Shield.  George Shield was the inventor of many useful mechanical devices and a designer of acknowledged ability.  He was frequently consulted by eminent mechanics, and his views and opinions were held at a high premium.  He and his brother, Edward M. Shield, designed and built the machinery of the steamboat. Duke of New Orleans, that made the fastest trip from Cincinnati to the Crescent City and return that has ever been recorded.  George Shield built the great water-works engine that stands to-day a splendid monument to his mechanical genius. He was a self-made man, well-posted on all subjects of the day, of unobtrusive habits, possessed of a large heart overflowing with kindness and good-will towards his fellows. He died on the 3d of July, 1868, and was interred in our beautiful city of the dead, Spring Grove, where he lies surrounded by his loved ones.

Source:  In Memoriam Cincinnati 1881, Cincinnati, A. E. Jones, Publisher, 1881.
  

 
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