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Ernest L. Shaw papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0089

Summary

Personal correspondence, photographs, family history material, and miscellany relating to Shaw and to his son, Manley, a physician in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dates

  • Creation: 1888 - 1956

Biographical Note

Ernest Leroy Shaw was born in 1872 in Hartford, Michigan. In 1904 he married Mary Ella McKean in Wahpeton, North Dakota. She was a school teacher and was born in 1871 in Chester, Minnesota. They moved to Caldwell, Idaho, in 1910 where Ernest worked as an abstractor of titles. They had five children, among them Dr. Manley B. Shaw, an orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. Mary Shaw Shorb, a research chemist instrumental in the 1948 discovery of Vitamin B-12.

Extent

5 Cubic Feet (5 record boxes.)

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Idaho State Archives Manuscript Collections Repository

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