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Shaw, Henry, 1788-1857

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Personal name headingShaw, Henry, 1788-1857
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Beginning date1788
Ending date18571017
LocatedLanesborough (Mass.)
Place of birthPutney (Vt.)
Place of deathPeekskill (N.Y.)
Profession or occupationLawyers Representatives, U.S. Congress Legislators (State government)
Found inTo the farmers, mechanics, and manufacturers of the United States, 1831: t.p. (Henry Shaw, of Massachusetts)
Hutchinson, T. An oration, delivered at the South Parish in Woodstock, Vermont, 1806: inscr. (Henry V. Shaw)
Ancestry, via WWW, Mar. 19, 2014: Colver Family (Henry Vinal Shaw; b. 1788 in Putney, Vt.; d. 17 Oct. 1857 in Peekskill, N.Y.)
MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Shaw, Henry, 1788-1857; note: farmer, sheep raiser, lawyer, of Lanesborough, Mass., 1814-48; repr. in Congress 1817-21; member of Mass. legislature 1824-30, 1833, and Senate, 1835; influential in presenting protective tariff bill in 1824; founder of Pontoosuc Woolen Mill in Pittsfield, Mass., and president, 1827-41; moved to N.Y.C. 1848, and Newburgh, N.Y., 1854; father of Henry Wheeler Shaw, i.e., the humorist "Josh Billings"; b. 1788 near Putney, Vt.; d. Peekskill, N.Y., 10/17/1857)
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