The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-12-12
DEATHS
REV. d. E. SHAW

REV. ID. e. SHAW
Rev. David Edwin Shaw died OF
Saturday, December 6, at his home
in Oxford from heart failure, in his
18th year.
He came Of Scotch-Irish ancestry
as his grandfather David Shaw
landed in this country with his
parents about 1850 at the age oi
six years, having come from the
neighborhood of Lisburn county
Down Ireland.
The original farm which he
bought about 1880 from the Coulter
family. of Westmoreland county
Pennsylvania, is still owned by the
family. One of Mr.. Shaw's great
uncles married in 1920 Martha
Henderson. granddaughter of the
second pastor of the Oxford Pres
byterian Church.
MIR. Shaw was born in Versailles
Township, now East McKeeport, Pa.
He was the second son of the late
William A. Shaw, long an elder
in the Sixth United Presbyterian
Church, Pittsburgh, and trustee of
Allegheny Theological Seminary, and
Sarah { Connerl Shaw. His ma
ternal grandfather was Rev. DR..
William Conner, Blairsville, Pa.
He prepared for college at Newell
Institute, Pittsburgh, and in 1868
entered Jefferson College at Conors-
burg, Pa. later united with Wash
ington College at Washington, Pa,
to form Washington and Jefferson.
At the close of sophomore year he
left Jefferson and entered Princeton
College, graduating in 1870. Among
his class mates were DR.. William
Miller, Bryn Mawr; DR.. John B..
Kendall, Lincoln University; DR..
BonjaminN G. Henry, Canton, China,
and Rev Edward Newton, Of La
bore, India, all Of whom he out
lived,
From 1870 to 1878 he studied
theology at Allegheny Seminary
During 1878 and "a he completed
his theological studies at the Free
Church College, of Edinburg, Scot
land, being a. class mate of Rev.
Henry Drummond, D. D., Rev. James
Stalker. d. D., and Rev. John Wat
son { Tan MacLaren.)
Mr.. Shaw's, first charge was the
United Presbyterian Church, Keo-
kuk, Iowa. from 1874 to 1885. He
was on the faculty of Lincoln Uni
versity, Pa, from 1885 to 1893, as
Professor of Hebrew in the theo-
logical seminary and History in
the College.
Giving UP his work at Lincoln
after an illness, he accepted a call
from the West Nottingham Presby-
terian Church, Colora, Maryland, re-
naming there from 1894 till 1904.
During his pastorate he was mem
Der of the Board of Trustees of West
Nottingham Academy Due to i'll
helath he resigned his pastorate in
1904 and was made pastor emeritus.
He removed to Oxford at that time
living the original Qiekey home at
the foot of Locust Street, which he
later bought. During the first years
of his life in Oxford he preached
frequently in vacant churches, sup
plying for periods of about two years
each, the pulpits of Union Church,
Lancaster county, Pa, and the First
Church, Bridgeton, New Jersey. dur
ing illness of the respective pastors,
but In later years he had not been
preaching,
He married in 1875 Mary Arnot,
daughter of the late William Arnot,
formerly pastor of the Free Church
of Edinburgh, Scotland. Mrs. Shaw
died two years. after they moved to
Oxford in May, 1906, and was buried
at West Nottingham where Mr.. Shaw
has, now been laid TO rest.
He is survived by three brothers
and one sister, Rev. Samuel J. Shaw
and Mrs. Margaret S, Doty, San
Diego, Cal.,; A. c. Shaw and DR..
James p. Shaw, Pittsburgh, and
by his four children: William Arnot
Shaw. Oxford; Mrs. Charles H.
Jones Princeton, N. T.: DR.. Henry
Newton Shaw, Los Angeles, CAL,
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