Doctor John Paris SheahanVeteran

Doctor John Parris Sheahan was born on September 28, 1842 in Dennysville, Maine. He attended Washington Academy and enlisted in the Union Army on August 23, 1862 as a Private in Company. K of the First Maine Cavalry and was mustered into the army the same day. Sheahan was promoted to Second Lieutenant on March 11, 1864 and moved to Company E, 31st Maine Infantry. Captured on May 6, 1864 at Petersburg, Virginia, he was imprisoned at Macon, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina before escaping from Camp Asylum at Columbia, South Carolina on March 15, 1865 and making his way back to Union lines. Sheahan was mustered out of the army on July 15, 1865 and shortly after leaving military service married Mary Elizabeth Shriver Sheahan on August 16, 1865. The couple had two children, Eleanor and William. Sheahan returned to Maine to attend medical School at Bowdoin College in Brunswick and upon graduation in 1867, the family moved to Fredericton Junction, New Brunswick, and Doctor Sheahan began the practice of medicine. In 1869 the Shehans moved to Westminster but returned to Dennysville, Maine in 1874, where Doctor Sheahan lived for the remainder of his life. Doctor Sheahan died suddenly of heart failure induced by Bright’s disease in Boston, Massachusetts on March 18, 1894.