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■county, Mass., in the following October, com- mencing practice in Boston. He was a member of the state legislature, 1811-15 and 1819; a dele- gate to the state constitutional convention, 1820; a state senator, 1831-23 and 1828-29, and in Septem- ber, 1830, succeeded Isaac Parker (q.v.), as chief justice of the state supreme court, resigning, Aug. 31, 1860. He made an extensive European tour in 1853. He vvas twice married: first, in 1818, to Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah Knapp of Boston, Mass.; and secondly, in August, 1837, to Hope, daughter of Dr. Samuel Savage of Barnstable, Mass.. Of his children, Lemuel, Jr. (1829-1884), Harvard, A.B., 1849, LL.B.. 1852, was a lawyer in Boston, and served as a trustee of the Boston Public library and of the Boston Athengeum. Judge Shaw received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1S31, of which college he was an overseer, 1831-53, and a fellow, 1834-61, and from Brown in 1850. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a member of the Massachusetts and New England Histor- ical societies and of various local clubs, and a trustee of the Boston Library and Humane socie- ties. He translated from the French the " Civil and Military Transactions of Bonaparte " (about 1803-04), unpublislied. His addresses include: Discourse before the Humane Society of Massa- chusetts (1811), and a Fourth of July Oration (1815). His judicial decisions compose nearly fifty volumes. He died in Boston, March 30, 1861. SHAW, Leslie Mortier, cabinet officer, was born in Morristown, near Morrisville, Vt., Nov. 2, 1848; son of Boardman and Lovisa (Spaulding) Shaw, and grandson of Benoni andHanna (Whit- ney) Shaw. He was brought up on his father's farm with few opportunities for attendance at school except the short winter term in his own district. In 1869 he went west and worked his way through Cornell college, Iowa, by selling books and fruit trees and working on farms. He was graduated with the class of 1874, and re- ceived the M.S. degree. He studied at Iowa Col- lege of Law, was admitted to the bar in 1876, and practised in Denison. He was married, Dec. 7, 1877, to Alice, daughter of James and Jane (Hamilton) Crawshaw of Clinton county, Iowa. He engaged in banking and was the president of the Bank of Denison and the Bank of Manilla. He founded the Denison Academy and Normal school and financially aided a school at Indianola. He was elected, as a Republican, governor of Iowa, Nov. 2, 1897, with six tickets in the field, receiving 234, .501 votes, a majority of all the votes cast, and was re-elected in 1899 by an increased vote. In 1900, on the death of U.S. Senator John H. Gear, he unhesitatingly appointed Represen- tative DoUiver to the vacant seat although it cost iim the hopes he had long cherished to hold the

office himself. On Dec. 25, 1901, he accepted the cabinet position of Secretary of the Treasury offered him by President Roosevelt as successor to Lyman Gage, resigned, and assumed the office Feb. 1, 1902. He was permanent chairman of the International monetary convention at Indian- apolis, Jan. 25, 1898; a prominent lay delegate to the general conferences of the Methodist church in 1884, 1888 and 1892, and a trustee of Cornell college, elected in 1890. He received the degree of LL.D. from Simpson college, Iowa, in 1898, and from Cornell college in 1899.

SHAW, Robert Gould, soldier, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 10, 1837; son of Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw. He studied abroad, 1853-56, matriculated at Harvard in 1856, leaving in 1859 to enter business in New York city. He enlisted as a private in the 7th regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., April 19, 1861. for thirty days' service, and went with his regiment to Washington. He was commissioned 3d lieuten- ant, 2nd Massachusetts volunteers. May 28, 1861, fouglit at Winchester, Ya., March 11, 1863, was promoted 1st lieutenant, July 8, served at Cedar Mountain, Va., July 9, and was promoted captain, .^ug. 10, 1863. While with his command on the march to Chancellorsville, he received a personal appointment, April 17, 1863, from Governor An- drew, to command the 54th Massachusetts volun- teers, the first colored regiment to be sent to war by any free state. In making the selection, Gov- ernor Andrew said that he realized what a deli- cate task he was undertaking, and lie tried to select as officers, true, representative men, who were gentlemen as well as soldiers, and for this reason he made Colonel Shaw his first appointee. Colonel Sliaw marched through Boston, May 28, 1863, accompanied his regiment to South Caro- lina, and in a skirmish on James Island, S.C., they behaved so valiantly, that Colonel Shaw had them brigaded with white troops, and begged

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that they might be allowed to make the danger- ous assault on Fort Wagner, after the explosion