Bio: Shaw, George R.
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 224.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GEORGE R. SHAW

GEORGE R. SHAW, farmer, Town 29, Sec. 29, Eagle Point Township, was born in Fairlee, Orange Co., Vt., Jan. 12, 1832. He came to Wisconsin in the Spring of 1855, and in May of that year came to Eau Claire County and located near the village, and engaged in farming, working in the lumbering woods in the Winter for several years. He was married April 29, 1860, to Mrs. Margaret E. A. Farrar, of Eau Claire, a native of Maine. They have three children—Albion W., born in Lafayette, Chippewa Co., Feb. 4, l861; Perley W., born in the same town May 27, 1863, and Henry O., born in Rock Falls, Dunn Co., Aug. 13, 1867. For several years Mr. Shaw has successfully devoted his attention to farming, and is living on a well-improved farm of eighty acres, two miles north of Chippewa Falls. He also owns forty acres of timber in the town of Eagle Point. Post office address, Chippewa Falls.