U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaw, John Combs (1865-1959) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 457-458 John Combs Shaw was born near Kasson, Barbour County, is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Shroyer) Shaw. He is a member of the M. E. Church, of the Knights of Pythias, in politics Republican, and by occupation a teacher, employed in the State Normal School at West Liberty, West Virginia, but his home is in Barbour. He graduated in 1889 from the Fairmont Normal School; in 1891 from the Peabody Normal, Nashville, Tennessee; in 1892 from the University of Nashville with the degree of B. S., and in 1894 with the degree of M. S. In 1895-6 he was Scholar in Pedagogy at Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts, and the next year in the same institution he was Fellow in Psychology. The great grandfather of Mr. Shaw came from England and settled at Barton, Maryland. He raised five sons, the youngest of whom was Joseph, who married Florence Smar and raised three sons and three daughters. After two of the children were married, the family moved to Cove District, Barbour County. Samuel, the second child, is the father of the subject of this sketch. His children are Julia, John Combs, Joseph Columbus, Francis Elizabeth and Maggie Belle. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV # '59 001171 FULL-NAME: John Combs Shaw BIRTH-DATE: June 29, 1865 BIRTH-PLACE: Barbour County, WV DEATH-DATE: January 25, 1959 DEATH-PLACE: St. Joseph Hospital, Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 104 South Florida St., Buckhannon, WV MARITAL-STATUS: never married OCCUPATION: Retired Educator FATHER: Samuel Shaw MOTHER: Elizabeth Shroyer Shaw CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Broncho Pneumonia INFORMANT: John Reger, East Main St., Buckhannon, WV BURIAL: Heavner Cemetery, Buckhannon, WV ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------