Biography

11/02/1802 - 07/13/1871

SHAW, Mathias, a Representative from Bucks County; born, November 22, 1802 in Solebury, Bucks County, Pa.; farmer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1844 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1845 term; elected, delegate, State Whig Convention (1846); justice of the peace, Solebury; treasurer, Farmer’s and Mechanics Mutual Insurance Company; died, July 13, 1871 in Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Buckingham Friends Cemetery, Lahaska, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.