Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Shaw, William
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   WILLIAM SHAW farmer, P.O. Quakertown, is a native and 
life-long resident of the township.  He was born in 1829, 
and is a descendant of one of the old original Quaker 
families in the county. His father was Samuel Shaw, who died 
in 1863, and his mother was Sydnia, daughter of John Foulke, 
who died in 1862.  Our subject was married in 1854 to Miss 
Hannah Morgan.  They have five children:  Morgan, Samuel, 
Anna, Maurice and Elizabeth.  Mr. Shaw has been a farmer 
from his youth up, and settled on his present farm in 1844.  
He received a common-school education.  He is a member of 
the Society of Friends.  In politics he is a republican.