Samuel Wilson Shaw and Winnie M. Young
Husband Samuel Wilson Shaw 1 2
Born: 8 Sep 1852 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: Aft 1918 Buried:
Father: Samuel Shaw (1819-1889) 2 3 Mother: Rebecca Jane McQuaid ( -Aft 1890) 3
Marriage: 17 Oct 1889 4
Wife Winnie M. Young 4
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: George B. Young ( - ) 4 Mother:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Wilson Shaw
Crafton, Allegheny Co, PA
He was educated in the public schools and New Salem academy and entered the profession of teaching. He taught seven terms in Salem borough, part of the time as principal, serving one year as principal of Salem academy. Having taught seventeen terms in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Mr. Shaw entered the political arena, and in 1887 was nominated by the Republican party for commissioner, receiving 2,474 votes and having a majority of 774. At the general election he received 7,786 votes, while the next highest republican candidate on the county ticket had but 7,588 votes, and the leading candidate on the republican State ticket polled only 7,646 votes in Westmoreland County.
1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 158.
2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 599.
3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 159.
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Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 160.
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