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 546 SHAW. SHAW. While engaged in the glue and phos- phate business, he patented a number of processes and apparatuses incident and valuable to that business. In 1880 he visited England to introduce the seamless stocking industry, and exhib- ited his looms in Chancery Lane, Lon- don, to manufacturers from every Euro- pean country, and at the palace of West- minster before the Lord Chancellor. He sold the English patent to a corpora- tion, to be operated at Leicester. His machine was threatened with destruc- tion by the hand-frame knitters of Leices- ter, and proposing investors were subjected to intimidation. Before leaving London he was complimented with a banquet, and with a public recognition of the service he had done textile manufacturers, second only to that of William Lee of England, the inventor of the first stocking-frame. In 1879 he acquired a large tract of land on the Ossipee Mountain, Moultonbor- ough, N. H., which he laid out and im- proved under the name of " Ossipee Moun- tain Park." In 1882 the highest summit of the Ossipee Mountain range was named " Mt. Shaw" by the citizens assembled in their annual March meeting. This honor Mr. Shaw acknowledged by building a look- out on the summit, and by entertaining at his house the entire population of the town, July 4th of that year — a memorable event in the history of the town. This park, which has become famous for its romantic scenery, and its grand views of lake and mountains, and which is open to the public, is the summer residence of the family of Mr. Shaw. SHAW, EDWARD PAYSON, son of Ma- jor Samuel and Abigail (Bartlett) Shaw, was born in Newburyport, Essex count)', September 1, 1841. He derived his early education from public and private schools From 1859 to '63 he drove a hack in business for himself, the youngest driver ever licensed in Newburyport. He was frugal, and attentive to his business, al- ways to be relied upon. He was able in 1863 to purchase an express business, run- ning from Newburyport to Boston — " Shaw's Express." This he continued until 187 1, when he engaged in the wholesale flouring and prod- uce business, buying the interest of Mr. Suasev, of the firm of Sumner, Swasey & Currier. In 1880 he bought out the other members of the firm, continued the busi- ness about one year, and leased the prop- erty. He then began the business of running steamers between Newburyport and Salis- bury Beach (Black Rocks), and from Ames- bury via Newburyport to Boston, under the name of " The People's Line," of which he is president and chief owner. In 1882 he took the first contract to fur- nish sixty thousand tons of stone to build the north jetty at the mouth of the Merri- mack River. For furnishing the stone, he opened the quarry on the river near Chain Bridge, and formed the Newburyport Quarry Company, of which he is now presi- dent. He was lessee of the Newburyport & Amesbury Horse R. R. about three years from 1884. In 1887 he built and owned the Plum Island Street Railway, and was ■- ^j^ EDWARD P SHAW its first president. He has since sold the controlling interest, but is still a director. He owns three-fourths of the Black Rock & Salisbury Beach R. R., and is general manager as well as its president. He is president of the Newburyport Car Manu- facturing Company (builders of street cars). Mr. Shaw was married in Cambridge- port, December 24, 1867, to Annie Payson, daughter of James Fullerton and Frances Jane Trott, of Bath, Me. Of this union are seven children : Edward Payson, Annie