Wilbur B. Shaw of Portsmouth,NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1059

   WILBUR B. SHAW, deputy sheriff of Rockingham County, N. H., who
received this office by appointment and is now serving in his sixth year, was
born in Boston, Mass., November 5, 1875, a son of Henry B. and Abbie
Louise (Wilson) Shaw. His parents were natives of Kittery, Me., where
the father was employed in the Navy Yard as foreman of the joiners. They
were affiliated with the Methodist church. Their children were: Justin H.,
Wilbur B., Arvilla M. and Emily L.
   Wilbur B. Shaw began his education in the common schools of Kittery,
Me., afterwards continuing it at the Phillips Exeter Academy. He then
began to learn the printer's trade in Portsmouth, afterwards finishing his
apprenticeship in Lynn, Mass., where he worked several years at the trade.
He also worked in a shoe factory there for awhile, or until 1898, at which
time, on the breaking out of the war with Spain, he enlisted in Company A,
First N. H. Volunteer Regiment, as a private. He accompanied his regiment
to Camp Thomas, Georgia, and was made quarter master sergeant under
Colonel Rolfe. Having served until the close of the war he returned to
Portsmouth, where he was engaged in the restaurant business for some
time. Appointed city policeman, he served in that position for several years,
and was then appointed jailer under Marcus M. Collis, which position he held
for six months, at the end of which time he received the appointment to his
present office as deputy sheriff and deputy jailer under Ceylon Spinney,
in which he has served over five years with marked efficiency. Mr. Shaw is
a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Portsmouth Yacht Club
and also of the Spanish War Veterans.
   Mr. Shaw was married in 1895 to Alice Bertha Herbert, who was born
in Portsmouth, a daughter of George and Anna (Watkins) Herbert, her
father being a wholesale fish dealer here. The Herberts were a large family,
only three of the children, however, being now living, namely: Abbie; Mary,
who married Walter M. Sawyer of Lynn, Mass.; and Alice B., who is now
Mrs. Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have two children: Harold Herbert, born
July 7, 1896; and Ray Fred, born January 5, 1898. The family attend the
Baptist church.
   Mr. Shaw's paternal grandfather was Joseph Shaw, of York, Me.; his
maternal grandfather was Benning Wilson, of Kittery, Me., both sturdy New
England citizens of good repute, who, with their wives and families, were
well liked and respected in the communities in which they lived.