EDWARD L. SHAW
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 631

Edward L. Shaw, formerly proprietor of Shaw's Smokehouse in 
Phoenix, was born in Missouri, April 29, 1872 and acquired a 
public school education in that state, later attending the 
University of Missouri.  In 1892 he removed to California 
and in the fall of that year to Bowie, Arizona, where for 
eight years he was manager of the wholesale grocery house 
conducted by Solomon and Wickersham.  In 1900 he removed to 
Tucson, where he was for two years in the brokerage and 
commission business after which in May 1903 he removed to 
Phoenix where he purchased land.  He also became connected 
with the firm of Tillman and Bendell of San Francisco as their 
Arizona representative and traveled throughout this state in 
their interest until after the San Francisco fire. Mr. Shaw 
was later connected with M.J. Brandenstein and Company for 
two years and then bought an interest in the Baer Cigar 
Company of Los Angeles.  He was made vice president of that 
concern, which he represented in Arizona for three years, and 
then disposed of his interest in it.  He next opened a 
"smokehouse" in Phoenix and this enterprise he conducted 
with constantly growing success until 1914 when he sold 
out to C.T. Love.  He is an energetic and farsighted business 
man and rose rapidly to a high place in business circles of 
the city. He has large farming interests in the locality to 
which he now devotes his time and is also an extensive feeder 
and breeder of cattle.

On the 3rd of June 1897, Mr. Shaw was united in marriage to 
Miss Helen Guernsey, a native of Iowa and at the time of her 
marriage a resident of Bowie, Arizona.  

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