He was the youngest of four children born to Hezekiah and Rebecca (Holstead/Halstead) Shaw, early settlers of Paddy's Run (today called Shandon) in Butler County, Ohio. He was named after his mother's brother (Col. Griffin Halstead) and a prominent American Methodist Episcopal preacher and bishop (William McKendree, "the father of Western Methodism").
His early education was received at William Bebb's renowned Sycamore Grove boarding school near Dry Fork. He was also later a pupil of Dr. Chidlaw, the famous Welsh schoolmaster of Paddy's Run. Griffin Shaw went on to study medicine with Dr. Cyrus Falconer of Hamilton, Ohio, and with Dr. Daniel Drake, and earned his M.D. from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati in 1841. He settled in Indiana, where he married Susan Colburn in 1843; they had two children, Griff, Jr., and Lucy Shaw. While in Indiana he served in the state legislature while practicing as a doctor and surgeon. The family lived in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana at the time of the 1850 census.
After his first wife died, he married Susan Fisher, a teacher from Vermont, on August 16, 1852. They had one child, Charlie, who died of malaria, and then to escape the malaria epidemic the family moved back across the state line in 1854 to Paddy's Run in Ohio. Griffin and Susan had two more children there, Mary Georgiana and Albert.
Dr. Shaw was a prosperous physician, surgeon, farmer, landowner and country merchant in Paddy's Run. He was appointed a draft board officer for Morgan Township during the Civil War, after having switched his allegiance from Democrat to Republican at the start of the secession crisis. He died unexpectedly at the age of 46 of a stomach ailment (perhaps appendicitis).
His early education was received at William Bebb's renowned Sycamore Grove boarding school near Dry Fork. He was also later a pupil of Dr. Chidlaw, the famous Welsh schoolmaster of Paddy's Run. Griffin Shaw went on to study medicine with Dr. Cyrus Falconer of Hamilton, Ohio, and with Dr. Daniel Drake, and earned his M.D. from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati in 1841. He settled in Indiana, where he married Susan Colburn in 1843; they had two children, Griff, Jr., and Lucy Shaw. While in Indiana he served in the state legislature while practicing as a doctor and surgeon. The family lived in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana at the time of the 1850 census.
After his first wife died, he married Susan Fisher, a teacher from Vermont, on August 16, 1852. They had one child, Charlie, who died of malaria, and then to escape the malaria epidemic the family moved back across the state line in 1854 to Paddy's Run in Ohio. Griffin and Susan had two more children there, Mary Georgiana and Albert.
Dr. Shaw was a prosperous physician, surgeon, farmer, landowner and country merchant in Paddy's Run. He was appointed a draft board officer for Morgan Township during the Civil War, after having switched his allegiance from Democrat to Republican at the start of the secession crisis. He died unexpectedly at the age of 46 of a stomach ailment (perhaps appendicitis).
He was the youngest of four children born to Hezekiah and Rebecca (Holstead/Halstead) Shaw, early settlers of Paddy's Run (today called Shandon) in Butler County, Ohio. He was named after his mother's brother (Col. Griffin Halstead) and a prominent American Methodist Episcopal preacher and bishop (William McKendree, "the father of Western Methodism").
His early education was received at William Bebb's renowned Sycamore Grove boarding school near Dry Fork. He was also later a pupil of Dr. Chidlaw, the famous Welsh schoolmaster of Paddy's Run. Griffin Shaw went on to study medicine with Dr. Cyrus Falconer of Hamilton, Ohio, and with Dr. Daniel Drake, and earned his M.D. from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati in 1841. He settled in Indiana, where he married Susan Colburn in 1843; they had two children, Griff, Jr., and Lucy Shaw. While in Indiana he served in the state legislature while practicing as a doctor and surgeon. The family lived in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana at the time of the 1850 census.
After his first wife died, he married Susan Fisher, a teacher from Vermont, on August 16, 1852. They had one child, Charlie, who died of malaria, and then to escape the malaria epidemic the family moved back across the state line in 1854 to Paddy's Run in Ohio. Griffin and Susan had two more children there, Mary Georgiana and Albert.
Dr. Shaw was a prosperous physician, surgeon, farmer, landowner and country merchant in Paddy's Run. He was appointed a draft board officer for Morgan Township during the Civil War, after having switched his allegiance from Democrat to Republican at the start of the secession crisis. He died unexpectedly at the age of 46 of a stomach ailment (perhaps appendicitis).
His early education was received at William Bebb's renowned Sycamore Grove boarding school near Dry Fork. He was also later a pupil of Dr. Chidlaw, the famous Welsh schoolmaster of Paddy's Run. Griffin Shaw went on to study medicine with Dr. Cyrus Falconer of Hamilton, Ohio, and with Dr. Daniel Drake, and earned his M.D. from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati in 1841. He settled in Indiana, where he married Susan Colburn in 1843; they had two children, Griff, Jr., and Lucy Shaw. While in Indiana he served in the state legislature while practicing as a doctor and surgeon. The family lived in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana at the time of the 1850 census.
After his first wife died, he married Susan Fisher, a teacher from Vermont, on August 16, 1852. They had one child, Charlie, who died of malaria, and then to escape the malaria epidemic the family moved back across the state line in 1854 to Paddy's Run in Ohio. Griffin and Susan had two more children there, Mary Georgiana and Albert.
Dr. Shaw was a prosperous physician, surgeon, farmer, landowner and country merchant in Paddy's Run. He was appointed a draft board officer for Morgan Township during the Civil War, after having switched his allegiance from Democrat to Republican at the start of the secession crisis. He died unexpectedly at the age of 46 of a stomach ailment (perhaps appendicitis).
Inscription
G.M. Shaw M.D.
Died
Aug. 25, 1863
Aged
46 Y's & 6 Mo.
SHAW
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Griffin M. Shaw, Jr.
Died Dec. 31, 1872
Aged
25 Y's & 10 Mo.
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Susan F. Shaw
Died
June 29, 1892
Aged
64 Ys 2 Mo & 21 Ds.
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Remains relocated here from Old Paddy's Run Cemetery when New London Cemetery opened in 1867.
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