Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Alexander Shaw March 19 1846 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ALEXANDER SHAW.-The subject of this mention, a well-known merchant of Barbour
county, of which he is a native, was born in the town of Louisville, Ala., on
the 19th day of March, 1846. His father, William M. Shaw, was born in Richmond
county, N. C., about the year 1812, and in 1826 accompanied his parents to
Alabama, settling in the vicinity of Clio, where he engaged in farming and
merchandising. He served in the Indian war of 1836, taught school the greater
part of his his life and was the first probate judge of Barbour county. His
wife, whose maiden name was Flora A. McRae, became the mother of ten children,
Alexander being the fifth in order of birth. The subject of this sketch was
raised in Barbour county, and spent his early years on a farm, attending school
at intervals, prior to reaching the years of man-hood. Owing to his small
stature he did not enter the army, but remained at home during the troublesome
period of the war, looking after his own and the interests of his father's
family, pursuing agriculture as a means of maintenance. He followed farming
successfully until 1885, at which time he engaged in mercantile pursuits at the
town of Clio, where he now has a large and well assorted stock of goods,
representing a capital of $5,000, and his sales aggregate in the neighborhood of
from eighteen to twenty thousand dollars a year. Mr. Shaw was married in 1878 to
Jennie McDowell, and his home has been brightened by the birth of one child,
William M., now an intelligent lad of fourteen. Politically, Mr. Shaw has always
been a supporter of the democrat party, and his religious belief is represented
by the Presbyterian creed. His record as a business man is without a blemish,
and his career as a citizen places him among that large and intelligent class of
people whose lives, dominated by a sincere desire for the right, have done so
much for the moral well being of the community.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama" Vol I, p. 457

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