 Charles Upham Shepard

Charles Upham Shepard (born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, 29 June 1804; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 1 May 1886) was an American mineralogist.He graduated from Amherst College in 1824, and spent a year in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying botany and mineralogy with Thomas Nuttall, and at the same time gave instructed on these topics in Boston.