Peter Joseph Shields

Peter Joseph Shields helped found the University of California at Davis, and was a superior court judge for the State of California.

Early life

He was born April 4, 1862, at the Shields Ranch, which was located near Rancho Cordova, California on the American River, to John Shields who emigrated in 1850 from Donegal, Ireland and Elizabeth Shields, née Bowe, who emigrated from Waterford, Ireland in 1855. Both parents had survived the Great Hunger or Potato Famine which occurred beginning in 1845, and both had walked the Panama Isthmus on foot to arrive in San Francisco, and later, Sacramento. His father, John, had participated in the Gold Rush in California and dug up 80 nuggets to purchase the undeveloped property, which became the Shields Ranch. He was the third child, and named Peter after his mother's first husband, who died of Cholera on the ship taking them from the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, where she buried him in the sandy cliffs of the new city.

Personal life

Peter Shields (footballer)

Peter Shields (born 14 August 1960) is a former Scottish football player who played for Ipswich Town, Hearts, Partick Thistle and Cowdenbeath.

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