Benjamin Glover Shields

Biography

Benjamin Glover Shields (1808–1850) was a planter of the antebellum South who lived during a period of significant agricultural and economic development in the region. His forty-two years of life were spent managing agricultural enterprises and participating in the planter class society of the era, which shaped much of the South's economic and social structure.

Shields' burial in Marlin, Texas reflects his connections to the expanding American frontier and the agricultural communities of the South and Southwest. His life represents the experiences of the planter class during the decades preceding the Civil War.