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Shaw, David William (1852-1919)
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, 
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Pages 456-457

David William Shaw, son of William and Edith (O'Neal) Shaw, was
born May 18, 1852, at Philippi, and on March 12, 1879, was married
to Barbara Ellen, daughter of William W. and Jane (Thompson)
Woodford. Children, David Blain and William Ralston. The family is
Scotch, and William Shaw, grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, emigrated to America and settled in Preston County, then
Monongalia, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and on
June 13, 1795 his son, William, father of the subject of this
sketch, was born. In early life he came to what is now Barbour
County, and made his home where Philippi now stands. As early as
1830, he was a Justice of the Peace in Randolph, and upon the
creation of the new county he was one of the Justices who organized
Barbour. He was the third Sheriff. In private life he was a miller,
a stone mason, a farmer, and for some time was one of the owners of
the ferry at Philippi. He was a county officer for twenty-five
years, was one of the original trustees of Philippi, and was always
a Democrat. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was stationed
at Norfolk. The last years of his life were spent on his farm one
and a half miles west of Philippi, where he died June 19, 1876. The
farm now belongs to his son, the subject of this sketch. David W.
Shaw was educated in the common schools of Philippi and the West
Virginia College, at Flemington, Taylor County, from which he
graduated in the class of 1876. He then entered the profession of
teaching, devoting his winter months to teaching, and farming
during the summer. This arrangement continued until 1885, when he
relinquished teaching and devoted himself exclusively to
agriculture, until June, 1894, when he was elected to the position
of Superintendent of the West Virginia Reform School at Pruntytown.
In the autumn of 1886 he was elected a member of the State
Legislature, and was re-elected to the four successive terms. The
session of 1893 he served in the important capacity of speaker of
the house. He was chairman of the committee on education during the
first three sessions. He introduced the bill providing for the
abolishing of the special school elections. He was also
instrumental in framing and securing the passage of a bill
providing for the broadening of the common school curriculum, so as
to provide for the teaching of civil government, book-keeping, and
physiology. He is a member of Philippi Lodge, No. 59, I. O. O. F.,
and of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #77
FULL-NAME: David William Shaw
BIRTH-DATE: May 18, 1852
BIRTH-PLACE: Philippi, W.Va. (then Va.)
DEATH-DATE: January 18, 1919
DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, W.Va. R.F.D. #4
MARITAL-STATUS: Married
OCCUPATION: Educator (retired), Farmer at time of death
FATHER: William Shaw (born in W.Va., then Virginia)
MOTHER: Edith O'Neal (born in W.Va., then Virginia)
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Brights Disease
INFORMANT: William Ralston Shaw, R.F.D. #4, Philippi, W.Va.
BURIAL: Mt. Olive Cemetery

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