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Shaw, Henry (Philanthropist was born July)

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.