Lewis Cass SHAW

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4 April 1849 , Colrain, Massachusetts, USA

Died

21 November 1877 , Colrain, Massachusetts, USA

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Father: Philo Shaw
Mother: Adaline Shaw

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Birth — 1849
4 April 1849
Colrain, Massachusetts, USA

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

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Name: Lewis C. Shaw
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Death Date: 21 Nov 1877
Death Place: Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts
Age: 28
Birth Date: 1849
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Father's Name: Philo Shaw
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Mother's Name: Adaline Shaw
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01164-1
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film Number: 1888260
Reference ID: Pg. 48

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FHTD-4MX : 10 December 2014), Lewis C. Shaw, 21 Nov 1877; citing Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, reference Pg. 48; FHL microfilm 1,888,260.'

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