Shepard, William B. (William Blount), 1844-1913

found: William B. Shepard papers, 1768-1913, (bulk 1868-1913), viewed June 5, 2015 via East Carolina University Digital Collections website:Finding aid (William Blount Shepard (1844-1913) was the son of William Biddle Shepard and Ann Daves Collins. Orphaned at an early age, Shepard was raised by an aunt in Edenton, N.C. He organized Edenton Cotton Mills, Edenton Peanut Company, and the Bank of Edenton, and underwrote insurance for companies. Shepard's brief political career included services as a justice of the peace (1886) and as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1893). Mr. Shepard died at sea off Jamaica while on a pleasure cruise, January 30, 1913.)