. West Virginia and its people. West Vir-ginia), in the latter part of the eighteenth century. (Thild: William, ofwhom further. (II) William (2), son of William (i) Shaw, was born June 13, died near Philippi, Barbour county. West Virginia, June 19, early life he came to what is now Barbour county and made his homeat or near where Philippi now stands. In 1830 he was a justice of thepeace in Randolph county, and, on the organization of the new countyhe was one of the justices who organized Barbour county. In 1847 hewas sheriff of the county. In all he was a county officer for tw
. West Virginia and its people. West Vir-ginia), in the latter part of the eighteenth century. (Thild: William, ofwhom further. (II) William (2), son of William (i) Shaw, was born June 13, died near Philippi, Barbour county. West Virginia, June 19, early life he came to what is now Barbour county and made his homeat or near where Philippi now stands. In 1830 he was a justice of thepeace in Randolph county, and, on the organization of the new countyhe was one of the justices who organized Barbour county. In 1847 hewas sheriff of the county. In all he was a county officer for twenty-fiveyears. He was one of the original trustees of Philippi. By occupationhe was a miller, stone mason, and farmer; for some time he was one ofthe owners of the ferry at Philippi. At an early day he owned the entiresite on which Philippi was later built: his farm, where he died, was oneand one-half miles west of Philippi. In the war of 1812 he was a soldier,stationed at Norfolk. He wa= alwa>s a Democrat. He married Edith. -^ — WEST MRGIXIA 593 ONeal: she died at the age of eighty-five. Child: David William, ofwhom (III) David William, son of \\illiam (2) and Edith (ONeal)! Shaw, was born in Barbour county, \irginia, in May. 1852. He was edu- cated at Philippi, in the common schools, and at West Mrginia College,Flemington, Taylor county, then the only chartered college in West Vir-ginia, from which he graduated in 1876. He has been a prominent edu-cator. From 1869 he taught school, devoting the winter months to this, work, and farming in the summer, and continued in this dual activity un-] til 1885. In 1885 he gave himself wholly to agriculture. In June, 1894,! he was made superintendent of the West \irginia Reform School, at! Pruntytown, Taylor county. In the autumn of 1886 he was elected aI member of the state legislature, and he was re-elected four times in suc-cession. In the session of 1893 he was speaker of the house of dele-, gates. Previously, from the
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