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FRED G. SHAW
Vol. 3, p. 1203

One of the alert and progressive businessmen of the City of Tulsa is
the popular citizen whose name initiates this paragraph and who is
here president and treasurer of the New State Auto & Supply Company,
which conducts a substantial enterprise in the selling of motor cars
and general automobile supplies.

At Albia, the county seat of Monroe County, Iowa, Fred G. Shaw was
born on the 4th of January, 1875, the fourth in order of birth in a
family of six children, of whom four are living. He is a son of
Edward and Emma ZULEMMA Shaw, both of whom were born and reared in
the state of New York and both of whom now reside at Newton, Iowa, as
honored pioneer citizens of that section of the Hawkeye State. The
year 1915 marks the celebration of the seventy-eighth birthday
anniversary of the father and the sixty-fourth of the mother. Edward
Shaw became a representative contractor and builder in Monroe county,
Iowa, where he has lived virtually retired since 1895.

To the public schools of his native place Fred G. Shaw is indebted
for his early educational discipline, and as a youth he entered the
employ of the celebrated Barber Asphalt Paving Company, at Omaha,
Nebraska. His effective service eventually brought to him promotion
to the position of superintendent for this company, the operations of
which extend into all parts of the Union, and he continued in the
service of this corporation for the long period of 14 1/2 years, his
experience having admirably fortified him as an executive and as a
business man of judgment and circumspection. In 1907, the year that
marked the admission of the State of Oklahoma to the Union, Mr. Shaw
identified himself with the ambitious young commonwealth by
establishing his residence at Tulsa. Here he held a responsible
executive position with the Cleveland Paving Company for the ensuing
eighteen months, at the expiration of which he effected the
organization of the New State Paving Company, which was duly
incorporated and the headquarters of which were established at Tulsa.
Mr. Shaw continued as president and general manager of this company
until 1911, when he disposed of his interest in the business, which
had been developed to substantial proportions under his able
management, and he then became the organizer of the New State Auto &
Supply Company, of which he has since been president and treasurer.
This company is duly incorporated under the laws of the state and now
controls a large and representative business in the handling of
automobiles and motor trucks. The company has the local agency of the
Buick cars and trucks, as well as for the Kelly and G. M. C. motor
trucks, and its well equipped establishment is never found lacking in
all kinds of general supplies incidental to the automobile business.

Though a staunch supporter of the cause of the democratic party, Mr.
Shaw has manifested no ambition for political office, but his civic
loyalty and public spirit have been shown by his effective service as
a member of the board of park commissioners of Tulsa, a position to
which he was elected in 1914. He is a popular figure in business and
social circles in his adopted city and here is affiliated with Tulsa
Lodge, No. 71, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, as well as with Tulsa
Lodge, No. 946, Benevolent & protective Order of Elks.

On the 18th of September, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Shaw to Miss Minna May ADAMS, who was born and reared in the state of
South Dakota, and the two children of this union are Madeleine and
Freda Marcellus.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 12, 1998.