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- Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist
- church for Dr. Edwin Ben[jamin] SHAW,
87, noted scholar and clergyman, who died of a heart attack in
his home in Milton Saturday afternoon. Dr. SHAW had
been in declining health for several years, but he was active.
He continued to drive his car, he seldom missed church services
or lodge meetings, and he was a frequent visitor in the homes
of many friends. he helped cheer the lives of many persons
who were bedridden or otherwise confined to their homes by illness.
- Dr. SHAW was born Aug. 1, 1863,
in Freeborn, Minn., the eldest child of Mr. and
- Mrs. J. L. SHAW. As a young
man he came to Milton to study and was graduated from the college
in 1888. After teaching for a time in Leonardsville, N.Y.,
he returned to Milton 1890 as a member of the college faculty
until 1908. He then served as pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist
church of Plainfield, N.J., and executive secretary of the Seventh
Day Baptist Missionary society. He returned to Milton college
in 1922 and taught until 1945 when he retired as professor emeritus.
During all those years he carried a heavier teaching load than
any other professor and also served as the founder and librarian
of the college library, which had previously functioned as the
Daniel BABCOCK library and three separate libraries administered
via the lyceums, or student literary societies. He at one time
was also the physical director, conducting the athletic exercises
in the old wooden gym that occupied the ground upon which the
P. L. HUDSON residence now stands. He was for two years
acting president prior to the administration of Dr. William C.
DALAND.
- Dr. SHAW was married July 24,
1895, to Nellie Ruth CAMPBELL. He was a
- member of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist
church, of Du Lac lodge No. 322, I.O.O.F., of Io Rebekah Lodge
No. 103, and of Rock River Encampment No. 3 of Janesville.
He was the first to be honored by the Milton College Alumni Association
as a "Pillar of Milton" and at the time of his death
he was the only professor emeritus of Milton college.
- He is survived by his wife; two sons,
Prof. Leland C. SHAW and Elston, and two
- daughters, Miss Stephana SHAW
and Mrs. Elton BINGHAM, all of Milton; seven grandchildren,
Edwin E. SHAW, Mrs. Herbert BRIGGS, Charles, Bruce,
Linda, Ruth and Holly BINGHAM; one great-grandchild, Laura
BRIGGS, and one brother, Dr. George SHAW, of Alfred,
N.Y.
- The Rev. Elmo F. Randolph officiated
at the funeral with the Odd Fellows assisting.
- George WATERMAN, of I.O.O.F.
lodge No. 14, and David HEENAN, of
- I.O.O.F. lodge No. 90, both of Janesville,
conducted the service for the Odd Fellows.
- Pallbearers were: Curtis AUSTIN,
Roger BURDICK, Leland HULETT, Bernard
- MARQUART,
George SHELLESTAD, and Leland SKAGGS. Honorary
bearers were: Harry B. CRANDALL, John N. DALAND,
O. B. HALL, D. Nelson INGLIS, Guy POLAN,
and Will THORPE.
- Among the relatives who attended from
away were: Mrs. H. O. BURDICK [Hannah
- SHAW],
Alfred, N.Y.; and Mrs. Irving McEWAN, Chicago; Miss Maude
GARDINER and Mrs. Mildred SALLIDAY, Brodhead; Melvin
SHAW, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford SHAW, Edgerton;
Mr. and Mrs. Jay TAYLOR, Miss Mary TAYLOR, Mr.
and Mrs. John WETMORE, Mr. Russell and June WETMORE,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert DORR, Avalon; Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
READER and Wanda, Janesville.
- Burial was in Milton Cemetery [Thursday
edition, p. 1]
-
- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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