A. M. Shaw (1870-1942) was born in Illinois and received his training as a civil engineer at Cornell College, Iowa. He worked in the fields of railroad engineering, land reclamation, drainage, and city sanitation, in Illinois, Mexico, Gulfport, Miss. and New Orleans, La. In the 1920s he taught and served as Dean of the School of Engineering at Loyola University in New Orleans. During this period he was also a consulting engineer for irrigation and drainage projects in Honduras. During the 1930s he worked as an overseer in the WPA of Louisiana. His wife was Henrietta Otis Shaw. They had four children.
From the description of Arthur Monroe Shaw diaries, 1892-1942. (Tulane University). WorldCat record id: 777009140
