Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. 
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884

MORGAN COUNTY
ASHLAND TOWNSHIP
PAGE 337

JOHN W. SHIELDS, an enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of this township,
was born November 20, 1853, in Hendricks County, Ind., and is the second
of nine children born to Harrison and Sarah A. (Johnson) Shields, both natives
of North Carolina, and of English extraction.  They came to Morgan County
about the year 1864, and are still living here.  Our subject was reared a farmer
and received a good common school education.  He attended one term at the 
State Normal School at Terre Haute, after which he taught two terms with
success.  The profession of a teacher was his chosen one, but he was com-
pelled to retire from it on account of failing health.  January 21, 1877, he was
married to Mrs. Mary J. (Whitaker) Edwards, from which union two children
have resulted, viz., Homer (deceased) and Cora M. (born September 6, 1879).
Mr. Shields is a member of the Christian Church, his wife of the Missionary
Baptist Church.  He is a stanch Republican.  Mrs. Shields is the owner of a
fine farm of 100 acres, well improved, and under a high state of cultivation.

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