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William John Shuey was born on Feburary 9, 1827 in Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, the son of Adam and Hannah (Aley) Shuey. He was of Huguenot lineage, a descendant of Daniel Shuey who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1732 and settled in what is now Lebanon County.
William attended the public schools of his native town and of Springfield, his parents having moved to a farm in the latter place in 1836. A brief period of study at the Ohio Conference High School of the Methodist Church, Springfield, completed his formal education.
In 1848 he was admitted to the Miami Conference of the Church of the United Brethren and the same year.
From the beginning of his ministry Shuey displayed, in addition to religious zeal, unusual administrative and business ability. He was quick to see and to indicate lines of advance, and no little of the progress of his denomination during the last half of the nineteenth century was due to his wisdom and energy. After serving on the Lewisburg Circuit (1849 - 51), he became pastor of the First Church, Cincinnati.
In 1854, having been prominent in stimulating organized missionary activity, he was appointed by the newly constituted Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary Society to go to Africa and select a site for its first work abroad. Accompanied by D. C. Kumler and Daniel K. Flickinger, he sailed in January 1855.
The three fixed upon what seemed a suitable location, and Kumler and Shuey returned.
Until 1864 he was engaged in pastoral work in Cincinnati and Dayton, and was for three terms presiding elder of the Miami Conference. During this period he published in collaboration with Flickinger, Discourses on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects (1859). In 1864 he was elected assistant publishing agent, and in 1865, agent.
His more than twenty years' service in this position is regarded as an epoch in the history of the denomination. Taking charge of the publishing concern at Dayton when it was in a precarious condition, he put it on a permanent basis and greatly extended its activities. "More than any Bishop, editor, or other Church leader . Shuey in his position as Publishing Agent was for an entire generation the strategic center for the activities and progress of the United Brethren in Christ".
In 1897 he relinquished his position as publishing agent and became business manager of Bonebrake Theological Seminary, retiring from official church service in 1901. During his long residence in Dayton he was active in civic affairs and was for many years a director of the Fourth National Bank.
He was an important member of the commission that formulated the revised confession of faith and constitution adopted in 1889, and in the long court contest for possession of the publishing house, inaugurated by those who held to the old constitution and separated from the majority, he carried the burden of the defense which kept the property in the hands of the latter. He was instrumental in the founding of Union Biblical Seminary (Bonebrake Theological Seminary), the first theological school of the United Brethren. Many of the institutions of the Church profited by his abilities; he was for twenty-two years a trustee of Otterbein College, for more than a quarter of a century a member of the board of missions, one of the first directors of the Church Extension Society, and a member of the Board of Education. For years he edited The Yearbook of the United Brethren in Christ; he prepared several editions of the denominational Handbook, and, with others, A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the United Brethren in Christ (1858); he published also, An Outline of Our Church Troubles (1881), and A Manual of the United Brethren Publishing House (1892).
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In March 7, 1848 he married Sarah Berger, by whom he had four sons, one of whom was Edwin L. Shuey.
