. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and addresses delivered at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend George L. Kalb, . embers of the Presbyterianchurch of this city; all saveRobert, the subject of thissketch, who was then a stu-dent at Jefferson College,now Washington and Jeffer-son. On graduation there-from in August, 1865, he re-turned to Bellefontaine andbecame a member of thiscongregation and a teacherin the Sabbath-school, hav-ing a class of young the months fromAugust, 1865, to April, 1866,Robert rea
. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and addresses delivered at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend George L. Kalb, . embers of the Presbyterianchurch of this city; all saveRobert, the subject of thissketch, who was then a stu-dent at Jefferson College,now Washington and Jeffer-son. On graduation there-from in August, 1865, he re-turned to Bellefontaine andbecame a member of thiscongregation and a teacherin the Sabbath-school, hav-ing a class of young the months fromAugust, 1865, to April, 1866,Robert read enough ofBlackstone under JndgeWest to convince himselfthat the law was not to histaste. He accepted the po-sition of Principal of theHopewell Academy for a year, after which he became a student oftheology in Princeton Theological Seminary. Spending his vacation in Bellefontaine, Robert did his firstpublic preaching here and hereabouts under the friendly eye ofDr. Kalb. Thereafter he never visited Bellefontaine without hav-ing Dr. Kalbs kindly hands laid upon him, and being constrain-ed to preach to former schoolmates and friends. Graduating from Princeton Seminary in 1870, Mr. Shaw went. REV. ROBERT P. SHAW. CHII^DREN OF THE CHURCH. 85 immediately to his first pastoral charge, the two churches ofCedar Grove and Church town, Lancaster county, Pa. Here, hav-ing been ordained by the Presbytery of Westminster, November8, 1870, he remained until November 8, 1872, then he removed toBedford, Indiana, where he was married to Mary C Thornton-thence in January, 1874, to Saginaw, Michigan, where he was pas-tor of the First Presbyterian church until April, 1878. In 1879 hetook charge of the Presbyterian church of Sturgis, Michigan,where he remained sixteen years. In June, 1895, he removed toTacoma, Washington, and has since been in charge of the Secondor Immanuel Presbyterian church. There Mr. Shaw has built hishome wherein are gathered a family of one daughter and sixsons. Rev. JOHN Mc
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