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Julia Shepley

Staten Island, New York, 1868 - 1920, Brookline, Massachusetts

BiographyGeorge Foster Shepley was born on November 7, 1860, in St. Louis, the son of John Rutledge Shepley and his wife, Mary Augusta Clapp.

He married on June 30, 1886, in Boston, to Julia H. Richardson (b. 1867-1868 in Staten Island NY), daughter of architect Henry Hobson Richardson and his wife, Julia Gorham Hayden (daughter of John Hayden).
https://backbayhouses.org/george-foster-shepley-2/ I.S. 1/8/2018

G.F. Shepley, Sr., married the daughter of his boss, H.H. Richardson (1838-1886), Julia Richardson Shepley. She was born on 11/25/1867, in Staten Island, NY, and lived in Brookline, MA, on 12/17/1920. Her father had been born in LA, her mother, MA.

George and Julia Shepley had had five children together by 1900, all of whom survived to that time: Henry R., Julia H., Violet, George F., Jr., and Philip. Henry Richardson Shepley (born on 05/01/1887 in Brookline. MA-d. 1962), became a Partner in the successor firms of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Architects, including Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott (1924-1952), Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (1952-1962). One daughter, Julia H. was born c. 02/1889 in MA, while sister Violet, was born c. 04/1890 in MA. The two youngest sons, George F., Jr., was born c. 10/1892 in MA, and Philip Shepley, on 04/02/1899 in Brookline, MA. According to his US passport application of 07/02/1924, Philip Shepley was then a law student living in Brookline, MA.
http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/716/ I.S. 1/8/2018

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