The Atchison Champion, Saturday, 29 September 1900
DEATHS
Shaw.
Rev. James Shaw died Saturday night. Handicapped by the infirmities of 92 years, he had been fighting death for months, and death, as always, gained the victory. Rev. James Shaw brought the religion of John Wesley from beyond the Allegheny mountains and planted it in Atchison. He gave the active years of his life to its nurture and cultivation. and the end, peaceful and sublime, tended by a faith that never shrank or faltered, crowned the work. Rev. Mr. Shaw was born in Hunter, N. Y., in 1808, and grew to manhood in Ohio. He began preaching at the age of 26. In the years before he came to Atchison he blazed the pathway of religion through the pioneer settlements of Michigan, and taught the Lake Superior Indians the word of the white man's God. On a Sabbath morning in the early spring of 1857, in a little stone building on Commercial street, he preached the first Methodist sermon ever delivered in Atchison. In the following winter he raised $2,000 to build the first Methodist church in this vicinity. Thereafter he was for eight years presiding elder of this district. In 1867 he was given the charge at Wathena and Troy and filled it for some years. In 1877 Rev. and Mrs. Shaw celebrated in the Kansas Avenue M. E. church their golden wedding. This was the first occasion of the celebration of a golden wedding in Atchison. Mrs. Shaw, to whom he was married in 1823, died in 1888. Rev. Shaw retained his faculties almost to the last. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Price, with whom he lived in Atchison, and Mrs. Daniel MaHaffey, of Nardin, Okla. He had also 10 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren. The funeral occurred from the Kansas Avenue M. E. church Tuesday afternoon, and the body was laid to rest in Mount Vernon cemetery. Upon the early religious history of Northeast Kansas the name of no man is written so plainly as that of Rev. James Shaw. The men who peopled this wilderness in the 50's, and laid the foundation for its future, were able craftsmen, but no man builded better for his craft than Rev. James Shaw.
DEATHS
Shaw.
Rev. James Shaw died Saturday night. Handicapped by the infirmities of 92 years, he had been fighting death for months, and death, as always, gained the victory. Rev. James Shaw brought the religion of John Wesley from beyond the Allegheny mountains and planted it in Atchison. He gave the active years of his life to its nurture and cultivation. and the end, peaceful and sublime, tended by a faith that never shrank or faltered, crowned the work. Rev. Mr. Shaw was born in Hunter, N. Y., in 1808, and grew to manhood in Ohio. He began preaching at the age of 26. In the years before he came to Atchison he blazed the pathway of religion through the pioneer settlements of Michigan, and taught the Lake Superior Indians the word of the white man's God. On a Sabbath morning in the early spring of 1857, in a little stone building on Commercial street, he preached the first Methodist sermon ever delivered in Atchison. In the following winter he raised $2,000 to build the first Methodist church in this vicinity. Thereafter he was for eight years presiding elder of this district. In 1867 he was given the charge at Wathena and Troy and filled it for some years. In 1877 Rev. and Mrs. Shaw celebrated in the Kansas Avenue M. E. church their golden wedding. This was the first occasion of the celebration of a golden wedding in Atchison. Mrs. Shaw, to whom he was married in 1823, died in 1888. Rev. Shaw retained his faculties almost to the last. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Price, with whom he lived in Atchison, and Mrs. Daniel MaHaffey, of Nardin, Okla. He had also 10 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren. The funeral occurred from the Kansas Avenue M. E. church Tuesday afternoon, and the body was laid to rest in Mount Vernon cemetery. Upon the early religious history of Northeast Kansas the name of no man is written so plainly as that of Rev. James Shaw. The men who peopled this wilderness in the 50's, and laid the foundation for its future, were able craftsmen, but no man builded better for his craft than Rev. James Shaw.
The Atchison Champion, Saturday, 29 September 1900
DEATHS
Shaw.
Rev. James Shaw died Saturday night. Handicapped by the infirmities of 92 years, he had been fighting death for months, and death, as always, gained the victory. Rev. James Shaw brought the religion of John Wesley from beyond the Allegheny mountains and planted it in Atchison. He gave the active years of his life to its nurture and cultivation. and the end, peaceful and sublime, tended by a faith that never shrank or faltered, crowned the work. Rev. Mr. Shaw was born in Hunter, N. Y., in 1808, and grew to manhood in Ohio. He began preaching at the age of 26. In the years before he came to Atchison he blazed the pathway of religion through the pioneer settlements of Michigan, and taught the Lake Superior Indians the word of the white man's God. On a Sabbath morning in the early spring of 1857, in a little stone building on Commercial street, he preached the first Methodist sermon ever delivered in Atchison. In the following winter he raised $2,000 to build the first Methodist church in this vicinity. Thereafter he was for eight years presiding elder of this district. In 1867 he was given the charge at Wathena and Troy and filled it for some years. In 1877 Rev. and Mrs. Shaw celebrated in the Kansas Avenue M. E. church their golden wedding. This was the first occasion of the celebration of a golden wedding in Atchison. Mrs. Shaw, to whom he was married in 1823, died in 1888. Rev. Shaw retained his faculties almost to the last. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Price, with whom he lived in Atchison, and Mrs. Daniel MaHaffey, of Nardin, Okla. He had also 10 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren. The funeral occurred from the Kansas Avenue M. E. church Tuesday afternoon, and the body was laid to rest in Mount Vernon cemetery. Upon the early religious history of Northeast Kansas the name of no man is written so plainly as that of Rev. James Shaw. The men who peopled this wilderness in the 50's, and laid the foundation for its future, were able craftsmen, but no man builded better for his craft than Rev. James Shaw.
DEATHS
Shaw.
Rev. James Shaw died Saturday night. Handicapped by the infirmities of 92 years, he had been fighting death for months, and death, as always, gained the victory. Rev. James Shaw brought the religion of John Wesley from beyond the Allegheny mountains and planted it in Atchison. He gave the active years of his life to its nurture and cultivation. and the end, peaceful and sublime, tended by a faith that never shrank or faltered, crowned the work. Rev. Mr. Shaw was born in Hunter, N. Y., in 1808, and grew to manhood in Ohio. He began preaching at the age of 26. In the years before he came to Atchison he blazed the pathway of religion through the pioneer settlements of Michigan, and taught the Lake Superior Indians the word of the white man's God. On a Sabbath morning in the early spring of 1857, in a little stone building on Commercial street, he preached the first Methodist sermon ever delivered in Atchison. In the following winter he raised $2,000 to build the first Methodist church in this vicinity. Thereafter he was for eight years presiding elder of this district. In 1867 he was given the charge at Wathena and Troy and filled it for some years. In 1877 Rev. and Mrs. Shaw celebrated in the Kansas Avenue M. E. church their golden wedding. This was the first occasion of the celebration of a golden wedding in Atchison. Mrs. Shaw, to whom he was married in 1823, died in 1888. Rev. Shaw retained his faculties almost to the last. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lucy Price, with whom he lived in Atchison, and Mrs. Daniel MaHaffey, of Nardin, Okla. He had also 10 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren. The funeral occurred from the Kansas Avenue M. E. church Tuesday afternoon, and the body was laid to rest in Mount Vernon cemetery. Upon the early religious history of Northeast Kansas the name of no man is written so plainly as that of Rev. James Shaw. The men who peopled this wilderness in the 50's, and laid the foundation for its future, were able craftsmen, but no man builded better for his craft than Rev. James Shaw.
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