BIOGRAPHIES:  Isaiah SHAW, Porcupine, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Isaiah Shaw, farmer, P. O. Porcupine, Pepin county, was born in
Paxton, Mass., May 29, 1836.  His grandfather, Jason Shaw, a native
of Worcester county, Mass., married Miss Anna Vaugh, and to them were
born the following children:  Jason, James, John, Joseph, Justus,
Jarvis, Phoebe (Mrs. E. Haskins), Lydia (Mrs. Gray), Jerusha (Mrs.
Winter), Hannah (Mrs. Hunter), Judith (Mrs. Jennison), Zubia (Mrs.
Pierce), and twin girls, Melinda (Mrs. Allen) and Minerva (Mrs.
Upton).  Jason Shaw died about 1820.  Mrs. Anna Shaw died in 1856, at
the age of ninety-seven years.  John Shaw was born in Prescott,
Mass., in 1807.  He was married about 1835, to Rebecca, daughter of
Isaiah and Sophia (Fairbanks) Beaman.  Mrs. Shaw's grandfather,
Josiah Beaman, was also a Yankee.  Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw had three
children:  Isaiah (the subject of this sketch), Mary Sophia (Mrs. Wm.
Trask) and James.  Isaiah Shaw attended school and braided palm-leaf
hats when a boy.  When he was about eight years old his father went
to New York state, and was never again heard from.  Mrs. Shaw died in
1851, and Isaiah afterward worked on a farm and in a saw-mill.  In
1860 Mr. Shaw removed to Otisca, N. Y., where he carried on a farm
and meat market.  In 1866 he came to Lake City, Minn., and the next
year located in Frankfort township, Pepin county.  He purchased his
present farm in 1872, and is devoting his attention chiefly to
keeping horses, bees and poultry.  May 9, 1857, he married Miss Lucy
Wright.  They had one daughter, Emma J. (Mrs. G. Keyes).  Mrs. Shaw
died February 1, 1891.  Politically he is a prohibitionist, and has
served as town treasurer for six years.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 757.


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