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Identifier: historyofworcest03nuttc (find matches)
Title: History of Worcester and its people
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutt, Charles, 1868-1918
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- History Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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school committee andlibrary board. Some of his sermons were published. He was active in temperancework and other reforms, popular and highly esteemed by his parishioners, quiet inmanner, dignified and unassuming in demeanor. Joseph A. Shaw was of the eighth generation in the paternal line from thepioneer of the family in this country, Abraham Shaw, who came from North Awram,Halifax, Yorkshire, England, with his wife Bridget in 1636, and settled in Water-town ; later he moved to Dcdham, of which he was one of the founders and firstconstables; removing to Cambridge he held various town offices there and helpedbuild the first grist mill. Joseph Shaw, of the fifth generation, was a soldier in theRevolution from Taunton in Captain John Kings company. Benjamin Shaw, grand-father of this Joseph Shaw, was born in Weymouth, and died in Taunton, and his son,Samuel Shaw, resided in Taunton. The Shaw family has been active and prominentin Taunton, Raynham and vicinity for more than two centuries.
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ROliERT KENDALL SHAW, A, B. AND ITS PEOPLE i75 In all his ancestry Joseph A. Shaw was descended from the original Englishcolonial stock. He attended the public schools of Hampton Falls and of other townswhere his father was located: in 1850 he was a pupil in a select school in \\ayland,where he began preparation for college. In 1853 he entered the middle class at Phil-lips Academy, Exeter, and graduated in 1855, entering the sophomore class at HarvardCollege andgraduating in 1858 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 18(16 he re-ceived from Harvard the degree of Master of Arts. At Exeter he joined the famousold fraternity known as the Golden Branch ; at Harvard he received a detur forscholarship and graduated with honor. While a college student he began his careeras a teacher, his first experience being in Upton. In 1857-58 he taught at Centre-ville, in the town of Barnstable, and in the later years of his life spent his summersand enjoyed the renewal of old acquaintances in that to

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