Shaw, John (3)

Shaw, John (3), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Bristol, Ontario Co., N.Y., July 11, 1807, and united with the Church at the age of eighteen. He was received into the Genesee Conference in 1831, and ordained deacon in 1833 and elder in 1835. He spent thirty-six years in the effective ministry, was superannuated in 1869, and died Jan. 16 of the same year at Himrods, Yates Co., N.Y. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1869, p. 282.