For example Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard was a believer in Agassiz's polygenism.

At the time of its incorporation, Shaler Township had a population of 2, 000 ; by 1860 it had grown to 16, 399.

However at the repeated urging of Second Lieutenant Ephraim Shaler, the U. S. Twenty-Fifth Regiment which had earlier been camped there had been moved from their previous exposed position, leaving behind only the cooks who were preparing the troops ' meal for the next day.

This even included many students of Agassiz, including Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard.

In his 1884 article, " The Negro Problem ", published in the Atlantic Monthly, Shaler claimed that black people freed from slavery were " like children lost in the wood, needing the old protection of the strong mastering hand ," that they became increasingly dominated by their " animal nature " as they grew from children into adults, and American slavery had been " infinitely the mildest and most decent system of slavery that ever existed.

The original bronze statue of the End of the Trail Statue is located in Shaler Park, in Waupun, Wisconsin.

Shalersville gets its name from its original proprietor, General Nathaniel Shaler and was originally known as " Middletown " as Shaler was a native of Middletown, Connecticut.

When his own position at Harvard was secure, Shaler gradually accepted Darwinism in principle but viewed it through a neo-Lamarckian lens.

Ross ' borders changed over the course of time when Allegheny City was formed to the south and Shaler Township was formed to the east.

Things changed in the 1960s, when some Garfield residents began to leave the City for nearby suburbs in Shaler and Penn Hills.

This was largely out of deference to the brilliant but old-fashioned Agassiz, whose patronage served Shaler well in ascending the Harvard ladder.

Shaler Area School District was ranked 226 out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts in 2011, by the Pittsburgh Business Times.

In 2010, Shaler Area School District ranked 53rd out of 122 high schools in western Pennsylvania.

In 2011, Shaler Area MS eighth grade ranked 64th out of 105 eighth grades in western Pennsylvania based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and science.

In 2011, Shaler Area MS seventh grade ranked 68th out of 105 seventh grades in western Pennsylvania based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and science.

From this time his scientific studies dropped off, but he was a profound influence on the American branches of his two fields, teaching decades worth of future prominent scientists, including Alpheus Hyatt, David Starr Jordan, Joel Asaph Allen, Joseph Le Conte, Ernest Ingersoll, William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Alpheus Packard, and his son Alexander Agassiz, among others.

The village of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania — at the center of what became Shaler Township — was established in the early 19th century, beginning with a log sawmill built by John Shaw, Sr. after he bought of land north of Pittsburgh in 1800.

This was changed on the same day to Shaler, after Charles Shaler, a prominent mid-19th century Pittsburgh area judge and president of the local 5th District Court.

Early settlement of the Shaler area was sporadic, with small farming and mercantile villages appearing.

Shaler, along with Ross Township, was among the first outer-city areas to develop into the modern suburbs which today define the North Hills region of Allegheny County.

Shaler remained and still remains a primarily residential municipality, and it was during this period which the Township came to acquire the attributes it still holds today.

Following several large fires in 1866 which resulted in excessive fire losses and a rise in insurance rates, the fire department was reorganized under the command of General Alexander Shaler, and with military discipline the paid department reached its full potential which resulted in a general reduction in fire losses.

The statue was purchased by inventor and sculpture, Clarence Addison Shaler, and donated to the City of Waupun on June 23, 1929.

Fitch was born to Joseph Fitch and Sarah Shaler in Windsor, Connecticut on January 21, 1743, on a farm that is part of present-day South Windsor, Connecticut.

Horace William Shaler Cleveland ( December 16, 1814 – December 5, 1900 ) was a noted American landscape architect, sometimes considered second only to Frederick Law Olmsted.

Horace William Shaler Cleveland was born to Richard Jeffry Cleveland and Dorcas Cleveland on December 16, 1814 in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

It is believed that Shaler was likely a member of the still little known early American Secret intelligence service sometimes called Executive agents.

Out of Shaler Area High School, in Pennsylvania, Karcher was a highly-recruited QB and eventually went to the University of Notre Dame.

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler ( 1841 – 1906 ) was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution.

Early in his professional career Shaler was broadly a creationist and anti-Darwinist.

Focas is a relatively isolated crater, with the nearest craters of note being the Wright – Shaler crater pair some distance to the east along the same interior edge of the Montes Cordillera.

He then worked in Córdoba, Argentina for three years, then after working as an assistant to Nathaniel Shaler, he became an instructor in geology at Harvard, in 1879.

Following the Second World War Shaler became an affluent suburb with many former City of Pittsburgh residents now populating the Township.

Shaler is largely hilly, with three stream valleys which run from the north into the Allegheny River: the valleys of Pine Creek and Little Pine Creek converge in the Pittsburgh borough of Etna, while the valley of Girtys Run goes from Shaler into the borough of Millvale.

Although Shaler does not share a border with McCandless Township it is opposed diagonally to Shaler in the northwest.

He spent two summers living with the family in the middle-class Pittsburgh suburb of Shaler Township, eighty five mile west of Altoona.

Millvale is to the southwest, separated from Etna by part of Shaler Township.

Bordering Shaler Township, starting from the north and going clockwise on the map, are Hampton Township, Indiana Township, O ' Hara Township, Sharpsburg, Etna, Pittsburgh, Millvale, Reserve Township, and Ross Township.

Shaler continued to believe in polygenism, but believed the different races evolved from different primates.

Gould claimed his favourite essay to be " In a Jumbled Drawer " which discusses the debate between Nathaniel Shaler and William James over whether the improbability of our having evolved necessitates divine intervention ( Gould, like James, argues no ); the essay includes a letter from former President Jimmy Carter as a postscript, which discusses the issue.

Ross Township is bordered by McCandless to the north, Hampton Township to the northeast ( touching at one point ), Shaler Township to the east, Reserve Township and the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Summer Hill, Perry North and Brighton Heights to the south, the borough of Bellevue to the southwest, Kilbuck Township and Ohio Township to the west, and the borough of Franklin Park to the northwest.

In 1900, Shaler became one of the early townships to be classified as a township of the first class.

In his later career, Shaler served as Harvard's Dean of Sciences and was considered one of the university's most popular teachers.