William W. Shaw Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Smelser, Biographical Sketches, Page 1014

WILLIAM W. SHAW, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Ellenboro; was born in Dubuque Co., 
Iowa, in 1843.  He remained with his parents until their death; his father died 
in 1861, his mother in 1862.  Enlisted in 1861, in Co. C, 9th Iowa V. I.; he 
served three years and three months; was in twenty-four battles; came home in 
1864.  Lived in Dubuque County for one year, then went to Glen Haven, Grant Co., 
Wis., where he lived for twelve years and followed farming; then went to Ellen-
boro, where he has since lived.  He was married the first time in 1865, to 
Sintha Smith, a daughter of Edward and Catharine Smith; had four children, 
Charles E., Mary L., Molisa J., Anna M.; his first wife died in 1875, and in the 
latter part of the same year he married Marilda Shaw, of Fennimore, a daughter 
of James and Margaret Shaw; had two children, William N., deceased, and Dora M.  
Has forty-one and a half acres of land, also a fine house and lot in Glen Haven.