Lemuel Shaw

(1781-1861)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861 LBT ID: LeShaw1861 VIAF ID: 35239064 LOC ID: n85141031	B/BAP: 1781-01-09 DIED: 1861-03-30
SOURCES: ANB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Harvard, he was chief justice of Massachusetts (1830-60) and the father-in-law of Herman Melville.
REFERENCES TO Lemuel Shaw: Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 3 September 1849 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50.