Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Shaw, Martin L. 1889 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.143  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        MARTIN L. SHAW is one of three brothers who about ten years ago
established themselves modestly in the lumber business at Miami. They have
specialized in Georgia lumber, and are proprietors of the Georgia Lumber &
Supply Company, of which MARTIN L. SHAW is president.
	Mr. Shaw was born at Adel in Berrien County, Georgia, in 1889, son of 
A. H. and ELIZABETH (OVERSTREET) SHAW, natives of the same state. As a boy he 
learned to appreciate the necessity of hard work as an assurance of any success 
he might achieve in life. He was born and reared on a farm, had a public school 
education, and was nineteen years of age when, in 1908, he came to Florida. For 
some time he was in the service of his uncle, State Senator Overstreet, in the 
latter’s lumber manufacturing plant at Orlando. He remained there until he had
earned enough to pay for a course in a business college at Macon, Georgia, and
he also had some further experience with a large saw mill company near Ocala.
	It was in 1912 that Mr. Shaw came to Miami, and with his brothers H. O.
and J. M. SHAW secured the plant that was known as the Georgia Lumber Company,
subsequently buying out and becoming sole owners, and in 1917 they incorporated
the Georgia Lumber and Supply Company. This has grown into one of the largest
lumber concerns in South Florida, specializing in Georgia timber products. They
have made their practice model prompt service, and have not only maintained
expensive yards and stock for the current needs of the local lumber markets,
but have more than once proven their ability to furnish quantities of lumber
meeting the most exacting specifications on the part of builders.
	Mr. Shaw is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist
Church, and he and his two brothers are all Masons and Shriners. He married
Miss SALLIE COLEMAN, a native of Florida. Their two children are MARTIN L. Jr.,
and ELIZABETH.


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