SOLOMON A. SHAW
Solomon A. Shaw owns one hundred and sixty acres of fine, cultivated land on section 14, which he purchased in 1881 of Dr. W. Bradway. He was born in Pennsylvania on the 16th of January, 1846, and is the son of Solomon and Mary (Zieger) Shaw. His father is now living in Mahaska county, Iowa, his mother having died in June, 1884. Our subject removed to Ohio when two years of age, and settled in Montgomery county, where he resided until eleven years of age, when he removed with his parents to Mahaska county, and there received his education. Then he attended the school at Ottumwa, and there graduated in May, 1874. He then came to Cass county, and while in Atlantic, was engaged as clerk for H. G. Sharp. He remained in that employment about five years, when he settled north of Atlantic, and remaining there until 1881, when he removed to his present location. Mr. Shaw was married on the I7th of January, 1876, to Mattie Gillespie. They are the parents of four children--Franklin, Fred, Emma and Grace. Mr. Shaw has taught a number of terms of school in Jasper county, and is at present the sub-director of district No. 3, in this township. Mr. Shaw and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 688.
