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Ranodyne Shedd

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Ranodyne Shedd

Birth
Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Death
3 May 1886 (aged 73)
Burial
Tekonsha, Calhoun County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy, caused by family troubles, has been enacted at Tekonsha, Mich. Ranodyne Shedd, a farmer seventy-three years old, killed his wife with in axe and put an end to his own existence by cutting his throat with a razor.

-Hammond Advertiser 05/06/1886

When Ranodyne was sixteen years old he moved to Bolton, NY from VT. In the spring of 1835, Ranodyne, Phoebe Ann and their infant daughter Melinda, moved to Tekonsha, MI from NY. They made the journey in a large wagon drawn by a span of horses. The trip took six weeks. He secured in Tekonsha, a farm of about four hundred acres, lying around two small lakes. By the untiring industry of himself and his wife they became very prosperous. They had seven more children: John, Ester Ann, James Otis, Samuel Hemingway, David, Henry Alfred and Phoebe Ann. Ranodyne also served as a judge in Tekonsha. He brothers were also very wealthy and donated the Shedd Aquarium to the city of Chicago. After Phoebe Ann passed away Ranodyne married his second wife, after knowing her a very short time. Some family say he met Mrs. Jane Wood at a bar and was married the next day. Upon their death's they had an estate of $50,000. See the excerpt from a local paper.
Neither Ranodyne or his brothers had anything to do with the Shedd Aquarium. It was the gift of John Graves Shedd from Chicago.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy, caused by family troubles, has been enacted at Tekonsha, Mich. Ranodyne Shedd, a farmer seventy-three years old, killed his wife with in axe and put an end to his own existence by cutting his throat with a razor.

-Hammond Advertiser 05/06/1886

When Ranodyne was sixteen years old he moved to Bolton, NY from VT. In the spring of 1835, Ranodyne, Phoebe Ann and their infant daughter Melinda, moved to Tekonsha, MI from NY. They made the journey in a large wagon drawn by a span of horses. The trip took six weeks. He secured in Tekonsha, a farm of about four hundred acres, lying around two small lakes. By the untiring industry of himself and his wife they became very prosperous. They had seven more children: John, Ester Ann, James Otis, Samuel Hemingway, David, Henry Alfred and Phoebe Ann. Ranodyne also served as a judge in Tekonsha. He brothers were also very wealthy and donated the Shedd Aquarium to the city of Chicago. After Phoebe Ann passed away Ranodyne married his second wife, after knowing her a very short time. Some family say he met Mrs. Jane Wood at a bar and was married the next day. Upon their death's they had an estate of $50,000. See the excerpt from a local paper.
Neither Ranodyne or his brothers had anything to do with the Shedd Aquarium. It was the gift of John Graves Shedd from Chicago.

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