Guy A. Shaw, M. D., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Guy A. Shaw, M. D.  As a physician and surgeon, planter and banker, and
public official, Doctor Guy A. Shaw has filled a place of commendable
activity and honor in the community of Loreauville for a third of a century. 
That community has known the family as people of substantial worth for a
great many years.  Doctor Shaw's father was a pioneer doctor in that
locality.

Guy A. Shaw was born in Iberia Parish, February 1, 1869.  His father was
the late Doctor Angus G. Shaw, who was born at Syracuse, New York, in
1824.  The father of Doctor Angus from Syracuse moved to Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and was a member of that cultured city during the rest of his life. 
Angus G. Shaw was liberally educated, and graduated in medicine from
Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia.  Soon afterward he came South
and located in Iberia Parish, and with a home on the site on the modern
town of Loreauville, engaged in a practice that carried him far and wide
over the parish for a period of forty years.  He died at Loreauville,
November 27. 1892.  He was a democrat, a member of the Episcopal
Church and the Masonic fraternity.  Dr. Angus G. Shaw married Mary
Virginia Johnson, who was born in St. Mary Parish at Garden City in 1833,
and died at Loreauville October 20, 1920.  The children of Doctor Angus
Shaw and wife were Maud, who died at Loreauville, wife of H. Crawford
Rose, resident of Franklin, Louisiana; Miss Florence and Miss May of
Loreauville; Doctor J. W. Kenward, a specialist in eye, ear, nose and
throat, with offices in New Iberia and Franklin; and Guy A.

Guy A. Shaw, grew up in the home of a professional man, his education
being carefully directed by private tutors.  For two years he attended the
academic department of Tulane University in New Orleans, and then
entered the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, where he
graduated Doctor or Medicine with the class of 1890.  In the same year he
engaged in private practice at Loreauville, and has kept up his work
without interruption in this community ever since.  He is a member of the
Iberia Parish, Louisiana State and American Medical Associations.

He maintains his home in Loreauville, where he has a fine residence.  He
owns a plantation of 436 acres two miles east of the town, a large tract of
pasture land in St. Martin Parish, where he raises cattle.  Doctor Shaw
helped organize in 1910, and has since been president of the Bank of
Loreauville, a highly prosperous financial institution of Iberia Parish.  Since
1921, he has held the office of mayor, and there has been no movement for
the benefit of his community in which he has not participated with liberal
spirit and hand.  He is a democrat, a member of the Baptist Church, and
New Iberia Lodge No. 39, Knights of Pythias.

Doctor Shaw married at New Orleans, April 23, 1895, Miss Ethel Davis,
daughter of Lawson L. and Virginia (Harper) Davis, now deceased.  Her
father was an accountant in New Orleans, where Mrs. Shaw acquired a
public school education.  Doctor and Mrs. Shaw have four children. 
Gertrude is the wife of Doctor Perry Walet, a dentist at Loreauville.  Edith
is the wife of Ronalde C. McClure of the New Orleans Import Company of
New Orleans, and Miss Gretchen and Miss Olive are students in the
University of Iowa at Iowa City, Miss Gretchen graduates in June, 1925.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 307, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.