Ebenezer S. Shaw
Ebenezer S. Shaw, druggist, Windham, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 6, 1851, son of James and Sarah A. (Seward) Shaw. The former was born in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1808, and after graduating at the Western Reserve College and Allegheny Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Penn., was regularly ordained a minister of the Gospel at Chillicothe, Ohio. He removed to Windham in 1859, where he served as pastor of the Congregational Church until a few weeks prior to his demise in April, 1875. James Shaw had been twice married, first to Harriet Metcalf, who bore him one son—James M., a graduate of Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, and Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. He went to China in 1874, as a missionary, and there died in June, 1876. His widow and one child still reside in China. James Shaw's second wife was Sarah A. Seward, born in New York in 1817, and brought to Summit County, Ohio, when an infant. She is now residing with her only son, Ebenezer S. The subject of this sketch passed the year 1876 attending the Dental College at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1879 he opened a drug store at Windham, in partnership with Dr. Longhead, and the year following graduated at the Dental College, Ann Arbor, Mich. His partner having retired he carries on the drug business in connection with dentistry. He is a member of the Congregational Church and Librarian of the Windham Circulating Library.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885