Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — ALBERT D, SHAW IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

ALBERT D, SHAW IS DEAD.

Formerly Commaader-le-Chief es tbe Grand Army. Representative Albert D. Shaw of Watertown N. Y.. formerly command-er-ln-chief of the Grand Army of th* Republic, was found dead Sunday morning In his room at the Riggs house, Washington, D. C. A physician summoned immediately after th* discovery of the body pronounced death due to apoplexy, occurring probably about 2 o’clock in the morning. Colonel Shaw had returned about 1:30 o'clock from a banquet at the Dbbitt house in honor of his successor. General Rassieur, and before he left the banquet hall had responded eloquently to a toast and appeared to b* in excellent health and spirits. Colonel Shaw was born in Lyme, N. Y., Deo. 27, 1841. He served a term of enlistment in the Thirty-fifth New York Volunteers and as a special agent of the war department at provost marsh aj headquarters during the civil war. Later he was a member of the assembly for one term, was appointed consul at Toronto in 1868 and promoted to Manchester, England, la 1878, from which latter place he was removed by President Cleveland in 1885 for being “an offensive partisan.” Afterward ha filled the office of department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for the state of New York, wn-mander-in-chlef of the national body and a representative in congress, succeeding the late C. A. Chldkerlng, who met a tragic death in New York.