| LC control no. | nr 93001857 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shaw, Henry, 1788-1857 |
| Beginning date | 1788 |
| Ending date | 18571017 |
| Located | Lanesborough (Mass.) |
| Place of birth | Putney (Vt.) |
| Place of death | Peekskill (N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Representatives, U.S. Congress Legislators (State government) |
| Found in | To 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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