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Descendants of Steven Andrus WOOD

The Fourth Generation

Up Dated 4 March 2008
Frank William SHAW¹¹; (Albert Josiah¹⁰; Jennie Ann MARSHALL⁹; Elizabeth Osgood WOOD⁸
Stephen Andrus⁷; Stephen⁶; Simeon⁵; Solomon⁴; Solomon³; Thomas²; Edward¹; Lewis^A

2611. Frank William SHAW
and
Irene Catherine RAFFERTY

For pictures of the various SHAW families click here SHAW Family Pictures

Frank William was born in Pocahontas county, Iowa and married there Irene Cahterine RAFFERTY. She was of Clermont, Page, Iowa.

From the 1982 History of Pocahontas County Iowa.
Submitted by:
Catherine SHORES and Eleanor FLAHERTY

The Frank William SHAW Family

One of the first sights that greats tourists and visitors from the East on Highway 3 is a twenty-five foot statue of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess of Virginia, for whom the county and town were named. This statue was a project of Frank SHAW in 1948 and he dedicated it to his father Albert J. SHAW.

The roots of the first generation of SHAWS were planted in Pocahontas County in 1872 by Frank's grandfather and grand mother, Prentice J. and Jennie Ann (MARSHALL) SHAW, who came from Niagara County, New York by way of Green County, Wisconsin. They aquired and farmed land in Pocahontas County Powhatan Township. Prentice was one of the founders of the Pocahontas County Mutual Fire and Lightning Association and also one of the founders of what is now AID & IMT both of Des Moines, Iowa. They had five children, Albert Josiah, George, Stella (Mrs. Joe BUTCHER), Prentice and Lucy (Mrs Ben DRIFTMIER).

The oldest child Albert Josiah, Frank's father, graduated from Drake Law School in 1901. He married a Pocahontas school teacher Geneivieve MURPHY, the daughter of attorney and Mrs William MURPHY of Iowa City. Mr SHAW established a successful law practice in Pocahontas and also became an Iowa Industrial Commissioner and a State Senator. Five children were born to this union Frank, Albert, Eleanor (Mrs. Lawrence FLAHERTY), Cahterine ( Mrs. George SHORS). and Robert.

Frank, the oldest of this third SHAW generation of Pocohontas County, graduated from Buena Vista Colledge in 1931, owned and opperated the Pocahontas dairy and read law in the office of Judge D. F. Coyle of Humboldt and was admitted to the Iowa Bar and Federal Practice in 1934. He was a member and President of the Pocahontas County Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers and Defense Counsel. Frank married in Pocahontas a Pocahontas teacher Irene Catherine RAFFERTY of Clermont, Iowa. They aquired land in Pocahontas and Palo Alto Counties and in 1957 they built the Shaw building at 328 North Main Street and this eventually housed the Law practice of SHAW, SHAW and SHAW ---- Frank, his daughter Rosemary, and son William.

Rosemary graduated from Buena Vista College in 1960 and Drake Law School in 1963. After practicing law with her father for a year she married R. W. SACKETT, a Spencer attorney. Rosemary is now a senior partner in the law firm of SACKETT, SACKETT, HEMPHILL and HOWE, in Spencer. She and her husband reside on Haywards Bay, West Lake Okoboji with their five children, Murphy, Morgan, Barry, Frank and Mary Margaret.

Bill graduated from Drake University in 1966 with a B.S. in Pharmacy and from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1969. He practiced law with his father for a year before passing the California Bar in 1971. Subsequently, he became a District Attorney for Los Angeles County, California. He left the position in 1974 and was appointed by the Attorney General of the United States to the position of Assiatant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California and joined the staff of the President of the United States Gerald R. FORD, and worked as an assistant in the White House. When Bill left the government he went into practice with a well known Los Angeles law firm, Kirtland and Packard. In 1977 he left this firm with the son of the founder of that firm and became a partner in a newly formed law firm, Reed and Shaw. Mr. SHAW's home in Beverly Hills is the former estate of Dorothy Lamour.

Frank and Irene realized great enjoyment at the SHAW cottage at Nevis, Minnessota and later they purchased a summer home, One Hundred Oaks, on Haywards Bay, Lake West Okoboji.

CHILDREN of Frank William SHAW and Irene Catherine RAFFERTY:

 + 25111. 1. ROSEMARY  b:            ; , Pocahontas, Iowa.
                      md:            ; R. W. SACKETT.
   25112. 2. WILLIAM   b:            ; , Pocahontas, Iowa.

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