Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Shaw was born on 8 November 1861, in Clay Banks, Door, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Zebina Shaw, was 44 and his mother, Catherine O'Brien, was 26. He married Frances Adelia Heald on 5 January 1886, in Clay Banks, Door, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ahnapee, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States for about 60 years. He died on 3 February 1934, in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Algoma, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Mel* Shaw in household of Shaw, "United States Census, 1870"
- Moses Shaw, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Moses Shaw in entry for Raymond Shaw, "Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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