Shaw, Robert Gould, 1850-1931
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. 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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Shaw was a prominent figure in the theater in Boston and the first curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection, appointed 1915.
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Name Entry: Shaw, Robert Gould, 1850-1931
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Place: Boston
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