Shedd was born in Denmark, Iowa in 1847, the only son of George Shedd, a medical doctor, and Abigail Houston.
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In 2002, The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, a community-based performing arts center and music school in Eugene, Oregon, was co-founded by one of his great-grandchildren.
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One of the Commercial Club's most notable undertakings was the sponsorship of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago, which was released in 1909 and which to this day is considered to be one of the most important urban planning documents ever created.
A few of the Chicago businessmen that purchased crypt space in the newly built mausoleum were: John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field & Co., A. Montgomery Ward of Montgomery Ward & Co., and many other Chicago area businessmen.