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.