Shaw, C. Austin
artist, writer, was born Oct. 24, 1840, in West Milton, Ohio.
He was a successful landscape painter, in Providence, R. I., and afterward edited a magazine entitled Language and Thought. In 1871 he entered the signal service, and held positions in Minnesota, Dakota, Madison, Wis., and Erie, Pa. In 1887 he retired from public service and devoted his time entirely to literature; and was the author of a number of meritorious essays, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.