Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . iversity education, especially in the Departmentof Classics. In 1883 he edited an edition ofTerence. In 1889 the Grolier Club of New which Professor West is a member, printed anedition he prepared for the club of the Philobiblonof Richard de Bury. He is also the author ofAlcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. Hewas married to Lucy Marshall Fitz Randolph, May9, 18S9, and has one child: Randolph West.


Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . iversity education, especially in the Departmentof Classics. In 1883 he edited an edition ofTerence. In 1889 the Grolier Club of New which Professor West is a member, printed anedition he prepared for the club of the Philobiblonof Richard de Bury. He is also the author ofAlcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. Hewas married to Lucy Marshall Fitz Randolph, May9, 18S9, and has one child: Randolph West. great-grandfather, Cornelius Conner, was a recruit-ing sergeant in Captain Benjamin HarrisonsCompany, Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, and othermembers of this family were also in the Revolution-ary War. He received his early education at theBeaver and Bellevue public schools and was fittedfor College at Newell Institute in Pittsburg, Penn-sylvania, and Milliston Seminary at Easthanipton,Massachusetts, graduating from Princeton in theClass of 1886, receiving the degree of Master of-Arts from the same institution three years began the study of medicine at the College of. J. p. SH.\w SHAW, James Prestley Princeton 1886 — Columbia in Versailles Township, Allegheny Co., Pa.,1864 ; fitted for College at Newell Institute in Pittsburg,and in Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass.;graduated Princeton, 1886; College of Physicians &Surgeons of Columbia, 1890; engaged in practice ofmedicine at Pittsburg since i8go. JAMES PRESTLEY SHAW, , Physician,was born near Turtle Creek. Allegheny county,Pennsylvania, February 6, 1864, the son of WilliamA. and Theresa (Conner) Shaw. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The first .American ancestor, SamuelShaw, came to this country and settled in centralPennsylvania about 1765. His maternal great- Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia in the fall of1887, graduating as a Doctor of ^ledicine in JuneIS90. Since graduation he has


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