SHAW, J. F., Orleans then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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J. F. SHAW, FRANKLIN.--J. F. Shaw was born in New Orleans, February 18, 1859.
He is the son of J. F. Shaw, Sr., and was reared in New Orleans and educated
in the public schools of that city.  He began life as a clerk for Taylor &
Logan, commission merchants in that city, and remained in their employ for
eight months, when he engaged with John Calder & Son, as clerk, and was in
their employ for three years.  He then entered the employ of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, and, after remaining with them for seven years,
resigned his position and returned to the employ of Calder & Son, agent of two
separate plantations in St. Mary parish, the Alice E. and Choupique.  He has
held this position since 1885.  Mr. Shaw was married in 1886 to Miss Nellie
Riley, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, and a daughter of Cornelius Riley.
They are the parents of two children, a son and a daughter, viz:  Catherine R.
and  Cornelius D.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
384-385.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.