When Paul Leonard Shaw was born in 1920, in Ohio, United States, his father, Stanley Berlin Shaw, was 25 and his mother, Vesta Evelyn Plummer, was 21. He lived in Wayne Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Auglaize Township, Allen, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 November 1996, in Allen, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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