Howard Cottrell Sheperd (October 15, 1894 – February 17, 1980) was chairman of the predecessor to Citibank from 1952 to 1959 and a founder of WNET, the New York City Public Broadcasting Service outlet.
He graduated from DePauw University in 1916 after entering a First National City Bank training class.
He served in World War I and returned to the bank advancing up the ladder from assistant cashier.
In 1945, his son Howard Cotterill Sheperd Jr., was killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
[1] In 1961, he led a group seeking to acquire WNTA-TV in Newark, New Jersey, to turn it into New York City's first noncommercial educational television station.