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William Ambrose Shedd
William Ambrose Shedd (1865–1918) was a US Presbyterian missionary who served in Persia and tried to protect the Assyrian people from the genocide.
He was born January 24, 1865, in the little mountain village of Seir, overlooking the Urmia plain, from missionary parents John Haskell Shedd and Sarah Jane Dawes Shedd, who had come to devote their lives helping the Assyrian community. Upon the completion of his education at Princeton University, he spent the rest of his life among the Assyrian Christians of northwestern Iran
After arrival in the Massachusetts Colony, Daniel Shed and his descendants changed the spelling of their surname. Daniel Shedd went on to be one of the founding settlers of Billerica, Massachusetts. His descendants include businessman and philanthropist John G. Shedd, and theologian William Greenough Thayer Shedd.
People.
- Dennis Shedd
- John G. Shedd
- Marjory Shedd
- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
- William Ambrose Shedd
Sources.
- Shedd, Frank; Gardner Bartlett, J. (1921), "Ancestry and Descendants