SHAW, WM. B.

SHAW, MCGINLEY, BOLEY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/17/2019 at 13:29:22

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

SHAW, WM. B., retired bricklayer; was born at New Albany, Ind., April 30, 1825; when 11 years of age, moved to Illinois ; came to Iowa, and located in Fort Madison, in the spring of 1841, and learned the trade of bricklayer ; worked at that business until 1868, and since then, for the past ten years, he has been engaged in buying and selling real estate and attending to his property ; when he began life, he had nothing, and by industry and good management, he now owns a number of houses and lots here, 100 acres adjoining the city and two other farms. He married Julia McGinley, of Ohio, in 1851 ; she died in 1860, leaving two children—Mary and Eddie. He married Elizabeth Boley from Indiana, in 1864; they have one daughter—Cora.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879