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Robert G. Shaw

Architect

Centurion, 1898–1905

Full Name Robert Gould Shaw

Born 6 May 1850 in Parkman, Maine

Died 10 April 1931 in Brookline, Massachusetts

Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by Austen G. Fox and Prescott H. Butler

Elected 5 February 1898 at age forty-seven

Archivist’s Note: Not to be conflated with his first cousin by the same name, a noted Civil War military officer