San Benito-San Francisco-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Shaw, William 1815 - before 1893
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

WILLIAM SHAW (deceased) was the pioneer journalist of Hollister, and as will be
seen by the following was active, enterprising and aggressive in his work. He
was a native of Dublin, Ireland, being born in that city in 1815. He was,
however, reared and educated in Liverpool, England, where early in mature life
he embarked in the stationery business, and in this city married Miss Emma
Newling, of Manchester, England.

  In 1854, lured by the reported discovery of gold in Australia, he purchased a
schooner of seventy-five tons burden and with his wife, his son Robert (the
present efficient County Clerk, of San Benito county) and crew embarked for that
country. Upon his arrival at Melbourne he established The Melbourne Age and
entered the field of journalism. This enterprise proved a success and the paper
is still issued, being one of the influential periodicals of the county.

  In 1862 he left Australia, sailing for New Zealand, where he engaged in the
same line of business quite extensively, and which proved very successful. His
next field of conquest was in the Sandwich Islands, where he purchased and
edited the Hawaiian Daily Times, which he operated about seven months. In 1871
he came to San Francisco, remaining there about eighteen months, and the
following year located in Hollister Here he established the San Benito Advance,
which soon ranked among the leading weekly publications of the State as an
aggressive exponent of the resources and attractions of its chosen locality.
This was the pioneer newspaper of Hollister, and the plant and outfit were the
same which Mr. Shaw had used in printing his paper in New Zealand.

  After Mr. Shaw's death, Mr. George Shaw, the second son, succeeded to the
ownership of the Advance (of which mention is made elsewhere in this work). Mr.
Shaw had eight children, seven of whom are sons: Robert, born in Melbourne,
Australia, July 16, 1855, and was married in San Francisco, in 1878, to Miss
Kate, daughter of John Bowen (deceased) ; they are the parents of five children:
George E., Albert D., J. Harnette; William F. Shaw, the fourth son was born in
New Zealand, August 25, 1865; in 1889 Miss Emma, who was born in Watsonville,
California, and a daughter of Jonas L. Myles, became his wife; one child has
been born to them, Reginald; Charles J., and one daughter, Ada, widow of the
late Lester Baldwin.

  Mrs. Shaw still survives and resides in Hollister.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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