Howard Elwin Shaw Sr.

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research of B. Moody via e-mail July 2007 - Hisory of Stowe pub. SHSocty 1963, pg 170 HOWARD E. SHAW, born May 26, 1867, entered in the employ of Miles, McMahon & Co. at the age of twenty-one, where he worked for seven years and then went into busiess for himself in 1895. He purchased a mill and timberlands in Sterling in 1902.Then in 1905 he purchased the water powermill at the Forks and more lands tributary to it. He also purchased a general store in Moscow in 1916, which he sold after a few years' operation. SHAW then bought the JOHN STRAW grist mill property and several houses at the Lower Village and manufactured butter boxes there. This propery was completely detroyed by fire in 1921 and was never rebult. He with F.(red) E. SMITH and C.E. BURT & F. O. BURT Co. , bought the P. D. Pike mill and set up the Stowe Butter Package Co, which later developed in the Stoware enterprise. HOWARD E. SHAW held various town offices; was elected town representative in 1910, and was Democratic nominee for governor in 1924, the time of his death. He was also a member of the Deep Waterway Commission which met in Chicago in 1911; director of the Lamille County Bank and the Lake Mansfield Trout Club; vice president of the Mt. Mansfield Hotel Co, and member of the Vermont Fish and Game League. Perhaps one of the most interesting activites was the playing cornet in the Stowe Band for thirty-five years.

1900 Stowe, Lamoille Co., VT married 5 years Howard E. Shaw 33 VT May 1867 Nina B. 25 VT July 1874 Gale (male) 3 VT Aug. 1896 Ruby D 2 VT Aug 1898

1920 Stowe, Lamoille Co, VT Howard E. Shaw 52 VT Nina B. 45 VT Gale H. 23 VT Ruby D. 21 VT Howard E. JR 6 VT

1930 Stowe, Lamoille Co., VT Nina Shaw 55 VT Widow Howard 16 VT Frank Gale Father 77 VT Widow

Howard married Nina B. Gale on 5 Mar 1895 in Vermont. (Nina B. Gale was born on 15 Jul 1874 in Waterbury, Washington County, Vermont.)

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