Thomas Leonard Shevlin

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Thomas Leonard Shevlin

Birth
Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, USA
Death
29 Dec 1915 (aged 32)
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 27 | Lot 2 | Crypt West#3 (Shevlin Mausoleum)
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Thomas L. Shevlin played college football from 1902 to 1905, captained the 1905 Yale University team which had a 10-0 record and outscored its opponents 222-4, was a consensus All-American football player in 1902, 1904, and 1905 as an end for Yale University, and was elected to the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame for 1902-04. Thomas L. Shevlin succeeded his father as president of the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company in 1912, during the initial stages of construction of the Bend, Oregon, lumber mill, but died of pneumonia before the mill was finished.
Thomas L. Shevlin Park was a gift to Bend, Oregon.
Thomas L. Shevlin played college football from 1902 to 1905, captained the 1905 Yale University team which had a 10-0 record and outscored its opponents 222-4, was a consensus All-American football player in 1902, 1904, and 1905 as an end for Yale University, and was elected to the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame for 1902-04. Thomas L. Shevlin succeeded his father as president of the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company in 1912, during the initial stages of construction of the Bend, Oregon, lumber mill, but died of pneumonia before the mill was finished.
Thomas L. Shevlin Park was a gift to Bend, Oregon.