Shaw, Joseph L.

Born: 1800-XX-XX Rhode Island

Flourished: Tremont, Illinois

Shaw was a physician who lived in Tazewell County, Illinois, as early as 1835. In 1850, he owned $2,000 worth of real estate. Politically, Shaw was a Whig.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Tazewell County, IL, 138; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Tazewell County, 68:227, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin F. James.