]> [collector note: Illinois: MICH, Indiana: F, GH, MICH] According to "Index Herbariorum - Collectors S", the birth year is "1861" (a typographical error for "1851"?) and the death year is pre-1902. Marvin Ogburn (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/merrick/minigen/s003.htm) cited the death year as: 1884. Botany Shipman, Elias Francis Shipman, Elias Francis E. F. Shipman 1851 ?