Frances Wells Shaw papers, 1866-1976, bulk 1925-1937.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943.

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Shaw family.

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Atkinson, Martha Wells, ca. 1868-1935.

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Shaw, Frances Wells, 1872-1937

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Wealthy Chicago and Lake Forest traveler, poet, and playwright. Frances Wells Shaw was born in Chicago in 1872. Her mother died when she was an infant, so her father, Moses Wells, a successful shoe manufacturer, sent for a relative to care for her and her older sister. They grew up in a house on Michigan Avenue. Frances Wells was educated at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1893 she married Howard Van Doren Shaw, a long-time family friend and one of Ch...

Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978

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Shaw, a sculptor, was the daughter of prominent architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. She studied with Albin Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago and went to Paris in 1920 to continue her studies under Antoine Bourdelle at the Academy Grande Chaumiere. She authored THE QUIET EYE and GARDENS AND OTHER PLACES and taught sculpture at the American University in Cairo in 1963. As an adult, she joined the Society of Friends and became an active participant in the church. Died 1978. From the ...

McCutcheon, Evelyn Shaw

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King, Frances Theodora.

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