Shaw, Charles – Shea, John Dawson Gilmary
Shaw, Charles
lawyer, author, was born in 1782 in Bath, Maine. He was a lawyer of Montgomery, Ala., who published A Topographical Description of Boston from Its First Settlement. He died in 1828, in Montgomery, Ala.
Shaw, Frank T
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1841, in Woodsborough, Md. In 1873 he was elected clerk of the circuit court for Carroll county, Md., for the term of six years, and was re-elected in 1879. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Shaw, George G
lawyer, was born Jan. 29, 1866, in Homer, La. After receiving his education he taught school for a while, and is now a prominent lawyer of Kaufman, Texas. He is prominent in Masonry and other fraternal orders; and in 1896 was elected mayor of Kaufman.
Shaw, Henry
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1788 in Windham county, Vt. He was nominated for congress before he was eligible, and in 1816 was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the sixteenth congress.
He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature for eighteen years, and was also a member of the governor's council.
In 1848 he moved to New York, and resided at Fort Washington, on the Hudson. He was a member of the board of education in New York city, and two years in the common council, and in 1853 was elected a member of the New York assembly. He died Oct. 17, 1857, in Peekskill, N. Y.
Shaw, Henry
philanthropist, was born July 24, 1800, in England. In 1885 he gave to Washington university improved real estate that yields $5,000 yearly income, which was used in organizing and maintaining a school of botany as a department of the university. At the same time the Missouri botanical garden and arboretum were placed in such relation to the school as to secure their full uses for scientific study and investigation to the professor and students for all time to come. He died Aug. 25, 1889, in St. Louis, Mo.
Shaw, Henry M
soldier, physician, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1819, in Newport, R. I. He moved to North Carolina, and was a state senator in 1852. He was a representative from North Carolina to the thirty-third and thirty-fifth congresses. During the war of the rebellion he served as a colonel in the confederate army. He died in February, 1864, in Newberne, N. C.
SHAW, HENRY WHEELER-Josh Billings-humorist, author, was born April 21, 1818, in Lanesborough, Mass.
He was the author of Josh Billings's Sayings; Everybody's Friend; Josh Billings's Trump Kards; and Josh Billings's Spice Box. He died Oct. 14, 1885, in Monterey, Cal.
Shaw, James Dickson
soldier, clergyman, journalist, was born Dec. 27, 1841, in Walker county, Texas. He served four years as a soldier in the confederate army, and surrendered at the close of the war as a second lieutenant. For twelve years he was a clergyman in the methodist episcopal church south, and since 1883 has been editor of The Independent Pulpit of Waco, Texas.
Shaw, John
physician, surgeon, poet, was born May 4, 1778, in Annapolis, Md.
He was a contributor to The Portfolio.
His poems, with a memoir, and extracts from his foreign correspondence and journals, were published in 1810. He died Jan. 10, 1809, at sea.
Shaw, John G
business man, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1859, near Fayetteville, N. C. He located at Fayetteville, N. C., and was elected county attorney for Cumberland county in 1890, and held the position for four years.
He was a democratic candidate for presidential elector in 1892 and was elected; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Shaw, Lemuel
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 9, 1781, in Barnstable, Mass. He drafted the charter of the city of Boston, and for twenty-seven years was one of the corporation of Harvard college. He died March 30, 1861, in Boston, Mass.
Shaw, Leslie Mortimer
lawyer, financier, was born in 1848 in Lamoille county, Vt. In 1869 he moved to Iowa, taught school and attended Cornell college of Mount Vernon, from whch institution he graduated. He graduated in law from the Iowa Law school of Des Moines, and in 1876 began the practice of law in Denison, Iowa. He is also successful financier, owns two banks, a and has loaned over two million dollars on Iowa farms. He has taken an active part in the business and public affairs of his adopted state, and in 1896 was republican nominee for governor of that state.
Shaw, Milton Gilman
lumberman, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1820, in Industry, Maine. In 1841 he began life in the lumber business at Greenville, Maine, then almost in the heart of the pine_forests of Maine; and he now owns an immense area of timber lands in Maine, including several townships. He has filled different public offices, and was a member of the legislature in 1859.
Shaw, Oliver
musician, composer, was born in 1776. He composed Home of My Soul, and other popular pieces of music. He died Dec. 31, 1848, in Providence, R. I.
Shaw, Robert Gould
merchant, was born June 4, 1773, in Gouldsborough, Maine. He bequeathed over a hundred thousand dollars to philanthropic purposes. He died May 3, 1853, in Boston, Mass.
Shaw, Robert Gould
soldier, was born Oct. 10, 1837, in Boston, Mass. He became colonel of the fifty-fourth Massachusetts, the first regiment of colored troops from a free state that was mustered into the United States service. He died July 18, 1863, in Fort Wagner, S. C.
Shaw, Rodney K
soldier, lawyer, writer, was born Dec. 13, 1829, in Copenhagen, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native county; attended Union academy of Bellville, N. Y.; the Lowville academy; and subsequently graduated from a Chautauqua course. During the war he served as captain of the sixtythird regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry; and was commissioner for relief of soldier-comrades of his county. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Marietta; and has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Shaw, Samuel
physician, surgeon, state legislator, congressman, was born in December, 1768, in Dighton, Mass. In 1799 he was returned as a member of the Vermont legislature, and was for some time a member of the state council. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1808 to 1813. On his retirement from congress he was appointed surgeon in the army, and removed to the city of New York. He died Oct. 22, 1827, in Clarendon, Vt.
Shaw, Thomas
educator, author, was born in 1843 in Ontario. He is a Canadian educator, since 1893 professor of animal husbandry at the Minnesota agricultural experiment station, and the author of The First Principles of Agriculture; and Weeds and How to Eradicate Them.
Shaw, Thompson Darrah
naval officer, was born Aug. 20, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was retired in 1862 on his own application, after more than forty years' service. He was continued on special duty at New York, Philadelphia, and Boston in 1863-67, and was promoted to commodore on the retired list in 1867. He died July 26, 1874, in Germantown, Pa.
Shaw, Tristam
congressman, was born in 1787 in New Hampshire. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1839 to 1843. He died March 14, 1843, in Exeter, N. H.
Shaw, William Smith
lawyer, philanthropist, born Aug. 12, 1778, in Haverhill, Mass. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1804, and in the same year became treasurer of the Anthology society, the nucleus of the Boston Athenæum. He devoted much of his time to the collection of its library, and became known as Athenæum Shaw. He was the first to suggest making the library public, and connecting with it a reading room. After the incorporation of the institution he was its secretary and librarian till 1823, and its secretary alone till 1824. At his decease he left it collections of coins, pamphlets and books to the value of $10,- 000. He died April 25, 1826, in Boston, Mass.
Shea, George
lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 10, 1826, in Ireland. He was a jurist who was chief justice of the city court of New York, and the author of Alexander Hamilton: a Historical Study; and Nature and Form of the American Government. a
Shea, John Augustus
journalist, poet, was born in 1802 in Ireland. He was an Irish verse-writer who came to America in 1827, and was a journalist in New York city. His writings include, Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Ruddeki, an Eastern Romance, in verse; and Clontarf, a Poem. He died Aug. 15, 1845, in New York.
Shea, John Dawson Gilmary
journalist, author, was born July 22, 1824, in New York city. He was an historical writer of note, for a number of years editor of Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner, in New York city. He was the author of The Catholic Church in the United States; Legendary History of Ireland; History of Catholic Indian Missions; Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of New Netherlands, 1633-44; The Operations of the French under De Grasse; Life of Pius Ninth; The Catholic Church in Colonial Days; The Catholic Hierarchy of the United States; and Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll. He died in 1892. 'SHEA, JOSEPH, college president, was born Dec. 31, 1829, in Fordham, N. Y.
For six years he was president of St.
John's college, Fordham, N. Y. He died Dec. 5, 1881, in New York city.