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Hiram Shaw (Lexington, Kentucky, hat merchant and politician)

b. 1809?

Lexington, Kentucky, hat merchant and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Shaw. Father of Joshua Shaw, Agnes Shaw, Joseph M. Shaw, Jane S. Shaw, Kate M. Shaw, and Theo M. Shaw. Member of the Whig Party and Republican Party. Partner with Nathaniel Shaw at the firm of N. & H. Shaw in Lexington, Kentucky from 1834 to 1849. Hat merchant with own firm following the death of Nathaniel. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Member of the Union Executive Committee of Kentucky in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 50. Robert Peter, “An Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region” in William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882), 710. “Union State Convention at Frankfort,” The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), January 6, 1865; Thomas Speed, The Union Cause in Kentucky (New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1907), 102-103. KYR-0002-022-0001.

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Shaw, Hiram. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212862 (November 12, 2026).

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