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 SHAW. SHAW. 545 about 1621, and who died in YVatertown, August 14, 1672. Mr. Shattuck prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; entered Har- vard College in 1847, and was graduated in the class of 1S5 1. Selecting the pro- fession of the law, he began his legal studies in the office of Charles G. Loring, and at- tended for two years the Harvard law school, from which the degree of LL. B. was re- ceived in 1854. Admitted to the bar in January, 1855, he commenced legal practice in September of that year, and for a short time was as- sociated with J. Randolph Coolidge. In May, 1856, he became associated in the practice of the law with the Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, this relation continuing until February, 1870. At that date he associ- ated himself with William A. Munroe, and later with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., these relations continuing until the appointment of Mr. Holmes to the supreme bench of Massachusetts in 1882 — the firm now being Shattuck & Munroe. Mr. Shattuck was a member of the Bos- ton common council in 1862, and for many years has been one of the overseers of Har- vard College, and is a member of the Mas- sachusetts Historical Society. In 1857 Mr. Shattuck was married to Emily, daughter of Charles and Susan (Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury. He ha:; one daughter : Susan, now the wife of Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot. Mr. Shattuck has had an extensive legal practice, and has been particularly success- ful as a corporation lawyer, and in the handling of commercial cases of mag- nitude. His success in obtaining from the jury heavy verdicts in three successive trials of the well-known suit of Snow vs. Alley, with Hon. Robert G. Ingersoll as an opponent, proves his power as a jury lawyer. SHAW, Benjamin Franklin, was born in Monmouth, Kennebec county, Maine, November 2, 1832. His early education was obtained in the common schools and academies of Tops- ham and Brunswick, Me. His first con- nection in business was in Philadelphia, 1853, in sash, blind and door manufactur- ing. In 1854 he was accountant for I.ip- pincott, Grambo & Co., subsequently J. B. Lippincott & Co., publishers. Leaving their employ, he established a cattle ranch in Kansas, having collected his young stock in southern Missouri, amid the perils incident to the condition of affairs at that time. In 1866 he became real estate clerk for J. C Ayer & Company, Lowell, Mass. While there, he invented the seamless Stocking, and the Shaw stocking loom. In 1869 he became a partner in the glue and phosphate business of Upton, Shaw & Company, Peabody and Brighton, residing at Cambridgeport. In 1876 he returned to Lowell and perfected the "Shaw-knit" stocking and loom, which in 1877 became the property of the Shaw Stocking Com- pany, of which he became and still remains manager. In 1S88 he established the Babe's Ease Manufacturing Company. BENJAMIN F SHAW. Mr. Shaw was married in Gardiner, Me., in January, 1853, to Harriet Newell Howard. Of this union were four chil- dren : Addie Frances, Clifford Franklin, Ralph Henry, and Jennie May Shaw. While in Philadelphia he assisted in the compilation of the "Allen Primary Geog- raphy," and wrote "The Comprehensive Geography" for higher schools. This was a novel work, many of whose features have been adopted by succeeding or contempo- raneous authors, and was highly com- mended by Barnas Sears, President Hill of Harvard, and other leading educators. The book was compiled by night, after the work of the counting-house was over, and occu- pied in its preparation about three years.