Bios.Tulsa,OK SHAW, Fred G.
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Posted by Earline Sparks Barger on Mon, 12 Oct 1998
Surname: SHAW, ZULEMMA, ADAMS
Vol. 3, p. 1203 
FRED G. SHAW 
One of the alert and progressive businessmen of the City of Tulsa is the popular citizen whose name initiates this paragraph and who is here president and treasurer of the New State Auto & Supply Company, which conducts a substantial enterprise in the selling of motor cars and general automobile supplies. 
At Albia, the county seat of Monroe County, Iowa, Fred G. Shaw was born on the 4th of January, 1875, the fourth in order of birth in a family of six children, of whom four are living. He is a son of Edward and Emma ZULEMMA Shaw, both of whom were born and reared in the state of New York and both of whom now reside at Newton, Iowa, as honored pioneer citizens of that section of the Hawkeye State. The year 1915 marks the celebration of the seventy-eighth birthday anniversary of the father and the sixty-fourth of the mother. Edward Shaw became a representative contractor and builder in Monroe county, Iowa, where he has lived virtually retired since 1895. 
To the public schools of his native place Fred G. Shaw is indebted for his early educational discipline, and as a youth he entered the employ of the celebrated Barber Asphalt Paving Company, at Omaha, Nebraska. His effective service eventually brought to him promotion to the position of superintendent for this company, the operations of which extend into all parts of the Union, and he continued in the service of this corporation for the long period of 14 1/2 years, his experience having admirably fortified him as an executive and as a business man of judgment and circumspection. In 1907, the year that marked the admission of the State of Oklahoma to the Union, Mr. Shaw identified himself with the ambitious young commonwealth by establishing his residence at Tulsa. Here he held a responsible executive position with the Cleveland Paving Company for the ensuing eighteen months, at the expiration of which he effected the organization of the New State Paving Company, which was duly incorporated and the headquarters of which were established at Tulsa. Mr. Shaw continued as president and general manager of this company until 1911, when he disposed of his interest in the business, which had been developed to substantial proportions under his able management, and he then became the organizer of the New State Auto & Supply Company, of which he has since been president and treasurer. This company is duly incorporated under the laws of the state and now controls a large and representative business in the handling of automobiles and motor trucks. The company has the local agency of the Buick cars and trucks, as well as for the Kelly and G. M. C. motor trucks, and its well equipped establishment is never found lacking in all kinds of general supplies incidental to the automobile business. 
Though a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party, Mr. Shaw has manifested no ambition for political office, but his civic loyalty and public spirit have been shown by his effective service as a member of the board of park commissioners of Tulsa, a position to which he was elected in 1914. He is a popular figure in business and social circles in his adopted city and here is affiliated with Tulsa Lodge, No. 71, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, as well as with Tulsa Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent & protective Order of Elks. 
On the 18th of September, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shaw to Miss Minna May ADAMS, who was born and reared in the state of South Dakota, and the two children of this union are Madeleine and Freda Marcellus. 
Transcribed by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 12, 1998