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Shaw established himself in the manufacture
of men's fine shoe heels, organizing the Acme
Heel company. This concern's product is used
by the high-grade shoe manufacturers in the
making of shoes ranging in price from $5 to
of heels
$8, at retail. The very best quality
is manufactured by the Acme Heel Company,
used in the construction of the finest men's
shoes made, in various parts of the world, large
to the shoe trade generally.
Fraternally Mr. Shaw is prominently identified
with the Masonic organization, holding;
membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A. F. & A.
M., of which he is past worshipful master;
Satucket Chapter, R. A. M. Brockton ;
Council,
R. & S. M.; and Bay State Commandery,
Knights Templar, of which he is past eminent
commander. In political faith he is a stanch
shipments being made to leading shoe manufacturing
concerns throughout the country. This
concern gives employment to about seventyfive
hands, and since its first inception the volume
of business has steadily increased. A natural-born
mechanic, Mr. Shaw has invented and
has patented various machines and appliances
used in tlie 7nanufacture of shoes, upon which
he is still receiving royalties.
Fraternally Mr. Shaw is a member of Paul
Eevere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Brockton.
In political faith he is a Republican, but has
never cared for nor sought public preferment.
In religion he is a Unitarian, holding membership
in the Unity Church, of Brockton.
On Jan. 1, 1873, Mr. Shaw was united in
marriage with Abbie Pierce Dunham, daughter
of Lysander and Sarah (Simmons) Dunham,
of Plymouth, Mass., and this union has been
blessed with children as fallows : Mary Frances
is the wife of Fred B. Leonard, of Brockton,
where he is teller of the Plymouth County Trust
Company, and they have two children, Ruth
and Warren ; Chester Earl married Lena Baldwin,
of Middleboro, where he is connected with
Leonard & Shaw, shoe manufacturers ; Frank
E., superintendent of the Acme Heel Company,
married May E. Brown, of Brockton.
(IX) Francis E. Shaw, son of the late
Francis M. and Mary L. (Eaton) Shaw, was
born Feb. (5, 1856, in Raynham, Mass. His
schooling was acquired in the common schools
and the high school of North Bridgewater, to
which town his parents removed when he was
only about nine years old. After leaving school
Mr. Shaw entered the employ of bis father, in
the manufacture of heels and shoe findings,
continuing in his employ until he purchased
the business, in 1890, and he continued to conduct
it under the firm name of F. M. Shaw &
Son until 1903, in which year it was incorporated
under tlie laws of Massachusetts as the F.
M. Shaw & Son Company, capital stock $100,-
000, with the supporter
following officers : Francis E.
Shaw, president; Ernest L. Shaw, treasurer;
and Herbert F. Bryant, secretary. This concern
is extensively engaged in the manufacture
of shoe heels and findings, and also deals in
leather remnants of all kinds, and is well known
of the principles of the Republican
party, and has served the city as a member of
the common council for two years; for several
years he was a trustee of the Public Library.
Mr. Shaw is an active member of the Unity
Church, of Brockton, and for several years has
served as chairman of the standing committee
of the church.
By his first wife, Jennie Perkins, Mr. Shaw
had one daughter, Lena F. His second wife,
who was Hattie E. Wilde, daughter of Bradford
Wilde, of Brockton, passed away in Brockton
June 21, 1904. Mr. Shaw has since married
(third) Mrs. Isabelle Prior, of Boston.
ALMY (Dartmouth-Boston family). The
origin of the Almy family of Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, which for the past two hundred
and fifty aiul more -years has been well and
prominently represented in many of the towns
of both Commonwealths, is traced back to William
Almy, who was born in England in the
year 1601.
It is here, however, the purpose to review,
and that briefly, but one branch of the Almy
family — that which later on located in the ancient
town of Dartmouth, thence went to Boston,
where several of the sons of the late Thomas
Almy became most enterprising and progressive
merchants, and have been followed by their
sons and jierhaps grandsons. Reference is
made to the brothers, the late William and Frederick
Almy of the extensive dry goods establishment
of Messrs. Almy, Patterson & Co., and
their successors. There follows the Almy
lineage and family history of the younger members
of the Dartmouth-Boston Almy family
from the immigrant settler, chronologically arranged.
(I) William Almy, who was born in England
in 1601, died in 1676. He came to this country
prior to 1630, but returned almost immediately
to England, coming here again in 1635 in the
ship "Abigail," and bringing with him his wife
Audrey and two children, Ann and Christopher.
He first located in Lynn, Mass., later, in 1637,.
was at Sandwich, and on Nov. 14, 1644, had
land granted him at Wading River, Portsmouth,
R. I. Here the balance of his life was spent.
In 1655 he was made a freeman, juryman in
1656, and commissioner in 1656, 1657 and