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Born 1836
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
SHAW D. R., queensware and glassware dealer. Second street, Coshocton. Mr. Shaw is a native of this city, and was born March 1, 1836;.son of Hon. B. R. Shaw, American born, of English ancestry. At fifteen years of age he entered the dry goods store as clerk; at eighteen was appointed deputy postmaster. At twenty- one he bought a farm and managed it eight years; at twenty-nine returned to the city and engaged in the hardware business; at forty changed his business from the hardware to that named above, in which he has almost the exclusive trade of the place and vicinity. Mr. Shaw served as quartermaster sergeant of the One Hundred and Fortythird 0. N. G. for five months. He has very acceptably filled the office of township clerk and as member of city council,and is at present president of the board of 'directors of the M. E. church, of this city. Mr. Shaw was married December 23, 1856, to Miss Alpha J. Benson, daughter of John Benson, of Perry township, and cousin to James A. Garfield. This union was blessed with four children, one of whom died in infancy, and three are living, viz: Emma Frances, William Walter, and Benjamin Lewis.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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