Dr. William Conner Shaw and Martha M. Lewis

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Husband Dr. William Conner Shaw ^{1 2}

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           Born: 7 Feb 1846 - Versailles Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 3 4
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         Father: William A. Shaw (1809-Aft 1889) 2 5 6
         Mother: Sarah Theresa Conner (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1 Nov 1877 3 4

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Wife Martha M. Lewis ^{1 4}

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         Father: James C. Lewis (1822-Aft 1889) 4 8
         Mother: Sarah M. Sargent (      -      ) 4 9

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Children

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1 F Sarah Louise "Sadie" Shaw ^{4 7}

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2 F Jennie Ekin Shaw ^{4 7}

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3 M James Lewis Shaw ⁷

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Conner Shaw

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He attended school in Versailles township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and at Newell Institute. He then entered the sophomore class at Washington and Jefferson College in September, 1866, graduating in 1869; then read medicine with Dr. W. R. Hamilton, and entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, where he graduated in 1872; then studied six months with a private tutor, passed the competitive examination, and entered Bellevue hospital as ambulance-surgeon, being advanced each six months until he became house-surgeon of the hospital. Leaving there in 1874, he accepted the position of clinical assistant to Prof. Stephen Smith, of the medical department of the University of New York, but changing his plans he resigned the same and located, Nov. 5, 1874, on Wylie avenue, Pittsburgh, where he built up a large practice. He was physician to the Pittsburgh Free Dispensary from 1876 to 1882, becoming thereby a life member; physician to Mercy hospital from 1876 to 1878, inclusive; surgeon alternate to the Pennsylvania railroad from Jan. 1, 1877, to Jan. 1, 1880, and the same to the P., C. & St. L. R. R. 1876 to 1881; surgeon to Mercy hospital, 1878 to 1887, and was examining physician for six insurance companies, carried seventy-two thousand dollars life and ten thousand accident insurance. Dr. Shaw was a member of the Allegheny County and State Medical societies, and a fellow of the American Academy of Medicine and Society of Alumni of Bellevue hospital, of New York. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and had two life memberships in the Western Pennsylvania Exposition society.
He wrote many articles for medical journals and local papers. Dr. Shaw, in an article to the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, dated May 19, and published May 20, 1887, first called public attention to the propriety of celebrating the centennial of the county in September of the following year, and a few months later (October, 1887) the idea was advanced in the Chamber of Commerce by Mr. Morrison Foster, and adopted by the chamber.

During his boyhood he worked on the farm and attended the common schools of the township, where he received his primary education. In February, 1864, he entered Newell's institute at Pittsburgh, where he spent two years preparing himself to enter college, and was graduated from Washington and Jefferson college, at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1869. He read medicine for one year in the office of Dr. W. R. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh, after which he matriculated in the Bellevue hospital medical college, of New York, from which institution he graduated with honors on the last day of February, 1872. For the next six months he studied with Prof. Joseph W. Howe, of New York, and then took the competitive examination for admission to the Bellevue hospital as resident surgeon for a term of two years. He passed the examination over all competitors and served as resident surgeon from 1872 to 1874. During the last eighteen months of his term he was on the second surgical division, serving under such eminent surgeons as Frank H. Hamilton, Louis A. Sayre, H. B. Sands, Stephen Smith and Alexander B. Mott. At the expiration of his hospital service he came to Pittsburgh and began the general practice of medicine and surgery on Wylie avenue.
From 1876 to 1878 Dr. Shaw was on the medical staff of the Mercy hospital, of Pittsburgh, and from 1878 to 1887 he was on the surgical staff of the same institution. Beginning in 1889 he occupied the position of physician and obstetrician to the Bethesda home, and was alternate surgeon for the Pennsylvania and Pan Handle railroad companies. From 1881 he was the medical examiner for the Equitable life assurance society of New York, and for the National life insurance of Vermont from 1882. He was also examiner for the Home, Manhattan and Mutual life insurance companies of New York, the Michigan Mutual, the New England, and the Bankers', of Des Moines, Iowa, and surgeon for the Employes' liability and accident company, of London, and the Fidelity and Casualty company of New York. He was a member of the Allegheny county and the Pennsylvania State medical societies, the American medical association, the American academy of medicine, the Alumni society of Bellevue hospital, the Pittsburgh chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and was a life member of the Pittsburgh free dispensary, and the Western Pennsylvania exposition society. He was also a member and one of the elders in the United Presbyterian church of Bellevue; a life member of the Scotch-Irish society of America, of which he was secretary for western Pennsylvania, and the Scotch-Irish society of Pennsylvania. In political matters he always acted with the republican party, though he seldom played an active part in political campaigns.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha M. Lewis

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She died suddenly of heart disease; her ailment was due to a severe attack of rheumatism when a schoolgirl, caused by falling through the ice on the old canal at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, then going to school with her wet clothes on and remaining there all day.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 385, 439.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 177.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 385.

4 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 178.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 385, 693.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 616.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 386.

8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 438.

9 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 439.