. Biographical history of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski counties, Indiana . hi in 1837. There he secured a clerkship in thegeneral store of William Bowles, with whom he remained until February,1851, when, having acquired some capital, he invested the same in a farmand turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Subsequently, in connec-tion with Gardner Mudge, his father-in-law, he laid out the town of Chalmers,in White county, on the old Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, andin 1856 he removed to Bradford, now Monon, where he engaged in businessuntil
. Biographical history of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski counties, Indiana . hi in 1837. There he secured a clerkship in thegeneral store of William Bowles, with whom he remained until February,1851, when, having acquired some capital, he invested the same in a farmand turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Subsequently, in connec-tion with Gardner Mudge, his father-in-law, he laid out the town of Chalmers,in White county, on the old Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, andin 1856 he removed to Bradford, now Monon, where he engaged in businessuntil i860. From that time until his death he resided in Remington, Jaspercounty, and on the ist of July, 1894, departed this life, when nearly eighty-three years of age. In his early manhood he married Miss Cornelia Mudge,a native of Huron, Wayne county. New York, and a daughter of GardnerMudge, also a native of the Empire state and of English extraction. In 1837he came to Indiana and was an important factor in the substantial develop-ment of his section of the state. For a number of years he engaged in. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 805 merchandising in the town of Delphi and also managed a farm. He diedin December, 1856, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Shaw, one of hisfour children, is still living in Remington, and has attained the age of seventy-seven years. She is a faithful member of the Presbyterian church, to whichher husband also belonged. An opponent of the system of slavery, he gavehis support to the Abolition party in ante-bellum days, and on the organiza-tion of the Republican party he joined its ranks and continued one of itsstanch advocates until his death. For a number of years he served as post-master, administering the affairs of the office with discretion and children were born to William H. and Cornelia Shaw, but only two arenow living, James B. and Jessie Gardner, the latter now the wife of MosesSolomon, of Elgin, Illinois. The subject of this review i
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