Shaw, Robert Gould, 1850-1931
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Shaw, Robert Gould, 1850-1931
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Shaw
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Robert Gould
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1850-1931
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Robert Gould Shaw (1850-1931) was born in Maine to Samuel Parkman (1813-1869) and Hannah Buck (b. 1820) Shaw, and spent much of his life in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a cousin to famous military commander of the same name. Shaw was a prominent figure in the theater in Boston and the first curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, appointed 1915. He was married to Isabella Pratt Hunnewell Shaw (1849–1934); they had three children: Robert Gould Shaw (1877–1931), Hollis Hunnewell Shaw (1878–1936), and Theodore Lyman Shaw (1882–1975). He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1931 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/67828559
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82234502
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n82234502
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