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He was born on June 28, 1843 in Waterville, Maine, United States, son of Rachel (Ripley) and David Newton Sheldon, a Unitarian clergyman who was at one time president of Waterville (later Colby) College, and brother of Edward Stevens Sheldon.
Educated in the public schools of Bath and Waterville, he went first to Bowdoin for a year and then entered the sophomore class at Harvard, where he obtained a scholarship and, partly working his way, graduated first scholar in the class of 1863. He studied law for about a year.
Sheldon taught school for about a year and then entered the 55th Massachusetts Regiment (colored) as a lieutenant on June 28, 1864.
After active service in South Carolina and Georgia, he returned to Boston at the close of the war and was admitted to the bar in 1866. Until 1894 he practised law in Boston, being associated for about twenty years with Gen. Wilmon W. Blackmar. During this period he edited Joseph Bateman's A Practical Treatise on the Law of Auctions (1883).
He was appointed to the superior court by Gov. Frederic Thomas Greenhalge, a lawyer himself and a friend of Sheldon's in college. Though he had been comparatively obscure, he quickly became a leading figure on the court, where he served for ten years.
When he was promoted to the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 1905, there was general gratification at the bar throughout the commonwealth. He excelled both as a nisi prius and as an appellate judge, and had the ability to make the loser feel that his case had been fairly considered.
Although he resigned in 1915, his work was not ended. That year he was chosen president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He served as a member of Massachusetts Law Quarterly's publication committee until the fall of 1921.
While still on the superior court, he had rendered an important service as chairman of a special commission to simplify criminal procedure, and in 1919, when he was more than seventy-five years of age, he was drafted for two important public services. He served as chairman of an investigating committee of the Boston Bar Association, a most difficult and trying task which led to the removal of two district attorneys. He also served during a period of fourteen months as chairman of the judicature commission, which was created to study and report on the entire judicial system of Massachusetts.
In 1921 Sheldon retired from active service; five years later he died.
Henry Newton Sheldon was famous as the author of The Law of Subrogation (1882), which became the standard work on law in the country. During his ten years of service on the appellate court he wrote almost six hundred opinions. Under his supervision as president of the Massachusetts Bar Association the Massachusetts Law Quarterly was established. He helped in the creation of the first statewide "small claims" procedure in the United States, a plan which was later adopted not only in Massachusetts but in about twenty other states.
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He was exceptionally modest, quiet, and scholarly in his habits. He was known for his scholarship, his quick perception, his balanced judgment, his power of clear statement, his knowledge of men, his firmness, and his natural courtesy.
On December 31, 1868, he married Clara P. Morse of Hubbardston, Massachussets, by whom he had two children.
