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Portrait of John Shelby, ca. 1840

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Title	Portrait of John Shelby, ca. 1840
Personal name	Shelby, John, 1786-1859--Portraits
Topical entry	Popular Culture Education Capital City Portraits, American--19th century Portraits--Tennessee--Nashville Physicians--Tennessee--Nashville Physicians--Tennessee--Sumner County State governments--Officials and employees Veterans--Tennessee--Nashville Creek War, 1813-1814--Veterans Postmasters--Tennessee--Nashville Educators--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Sumner County (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Description	John Shelby in his middle age, with dark hair and wearing a dark jacket and white shirt. Born in 1786, John Shelby was a physician, a Postmaster, and a civic and church leader. He is said to have been the first child of European descent born in Sumner County. Shelby married Anna Maria Minnick of Philadelphia in 1809. He served as Hospital Surgeon under Andrew Jackson in Col. Edward Bradley's regiment during the Creek War. He was wounded and lost an eye as a result. After the war he returned to practice medicine in Sumner County and served as state Senator for Sumner County from 1815 to 1817. Shelby moved from Sumner County to Nashville in 1817 and set up a medical partnership with his neighbor, Dr. Boyd McNairy. He served as Postmaster of Nashville from 1849 to 1853. Shelby played a role in the establishment of the short-lived Shelby Medical School in 1858. He died in May 1859 and was interred at Nashville City Cemetery. Oil on canvas, artist unknown. Presented to the library in member of Shelby's great granddaughter Anna Williams Fassman by her daughter Shelby S. Cox. The portrait is currently on display in the Nashville Room on the Nashville Public Library's second floor. The library's portraits were photographed as part of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee's Tennessee Portrait Project (http://www.tnportraits.org/index.htm).
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Contributors	National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee
Date	ca. 1840
Type	Still Image; Portraits; Paintings
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	shelby-dr-john-lg
Relation	Nashville Room Portrait Collection
Coverage	1840-1849
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Open stacks