SHOEMAKER, HENRY WHARTON, an American newspaper publisher, born in New York, in 1882. He was educated at Columbia University, N. Y. In 1903 and 1904 he served as secretary of the American Legation, Lisbon, Portugal, and of the American Embassy, Berlin, Ger many. From 1905 to 1911 he was a mem ber of the New York banking house of Shoemaker, Bates St Co., and since then director of numerous business corpora tions. Beginning with 1905, he was at various times the owner and publisher of several daily newspapers, chiefly in towns of Pennsylvania, acquiring finally the Altoona, Pa., "Tribune" and "Gazette." He was a member of the Associated Press, and a member of many domestic and foreign scientific, benevolent, and patri otic societies. At various times he held commissions in the New York and Penn sylvania National Guard. During the World War he served as a captain of the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff, United States Army, and as a mem ber of the Pennsylvania Commissions for National Defence and of Public Safety.
He edited "Philosophy of Jake Haiden" (1911); "The Passenger Pigeon in Penn sylvania" (1919), and was the author of "Immaterial Verses" (1898) ; "Wild Life in Western Pennsylvania" (1903) ; "Penn sylvania Mountain Verses" (1907) ; "Pennsylvania Mountain Stories" (1907) ; "More Pennsylvania Mountain Stories" (1912) ; "Susquehanna Legends" (1913) ; "Stories of Great Pennsylvania Hunters" (1914) ; "Stories of Pennsylvania Ani mals" (1914) ; "Pennsylvania's Grandest Cavern" (1914) ; "Captain Logan" (1916) ; "Juniata Memories" (1916) ; "Eldorado Found" (1917) ; "Extinct Pennsylvania Animals" two parts (1917 1918) ; "North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy" (1919) ; etc.