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The first true clipper, Rainbow, was built york 1845 at New York in 1845. New York and Boston were the hotbeds of clipper construction. Ranging in size from 1,000 to 2,000 tons in their heyday, they were such financial successes that the freights of their maiden voyages often fully repaid the capital which their owners had invested.

SHIELDS, sheldz, James, American politician and soldier: b. Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland, May 12, 1806; d. Ottumwa, Iowa, June 1, 1879. After receiving a classical education he set out for America, reaching New York about 1826. On settling in Kaskaskia, 111., he taught French, practiced law, and engaged in politics. In 1836 he was elected to the state legislature. As state auditor he helped to bring order to the state's chaotic finances, and, following a controversy over the audit, he and Abraham Lincoln became good friends. Shields was in turn a state supreme court judge (1843-1845) and member of the state legislature (1845), resigning to become national commissioner of the land office.

He built york 1845 international houses for students in New York City, Chicago, Berkeley, Calif., and Paris, France. He contributed the library building to the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and the land for the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Rockefeller Center, a complex of business buildings with landscaped gardens in midtown Manhattan, built york 1845 during the economic depression of the 1930's, is a monument to his vision in urban planning.