He established the American Naval Stores Company, which led to the creation of enough jobs to assist in Savannah's exit from the post-Civil War depression.

[6] The United States Supreme Court decided in the defendants' favor on June 9, 1913, reversing an earlier judgment.

[3] In 1898, two years after purchasing Greenwich Plantation, he built an opulent Beaux-Arts mansion, said in several publications to have rivaled the Vanderbilts' Biltmore Estate.

[10] It had extensive gardens containing expanses of lawn, boxwood hedges, imported plants, and decorative pools.

[11] In 1917, he sold Greenwich Place to Doctor Henry Norton Torrey, a brain surgeon from Detroit.

Berendt states Shotter is a forebear of Savannah district attorney Spencer Lawton, before describing Greenwich Place.