Shearjashub Spooner

Shearjashub Spooner (December 3, 1809 in Brandon, Vermont – March 14, 1859 in Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American physician and writer.
After graduating as a physician in Middlebury in 1830 and New York City, in 1835, he became a dentist in New York.
He retired in 1858.

• Guide to Sound Teeth (New York, 1836)
• Art of Manufacturing Mineral Teeth (1837)
• Treatise on Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry (1838)
• Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (3 volumes, 1853)
• Spooner, Shearjashub (1873). A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, Being Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Philadelphia: G. Gebbie. p. 527.  (1853; new edition, 2 volumes, 1865)