Birth: 1778
Death: 1809, Jan. 10
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates:
  Notes: See also: Shaw, John, Poems by the late Doctor John Shaw to which is prefixed a biographical sketch of the author [microform] (Philadelphia: Edward Earle and Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1810).
  “Some account of the author” (p. 1-99) by John E. Hall. cf. Perine Poets … of Maryland, and Appleton’s cycl. of American biog. v.3.”

  Master microform held by: Readex.

  References: Shaw & Shoemaker, 21334

  Microopaque. New York, N.Y. : Readex Microprint Corporation, 1971. 3 cards ; 15 x 23 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21334)
  Source:

• Dates: 1807
  Notes: “Dr. John Shaw, of Annapolis, settles to practice in Baltimore, and is elected physician to Baltimore General Dispensary. Dr. Jno. Shaw joins Davidge and Cocke, and lectures on Chemistry to a class of seven(?)”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 24-25
• Dates: 1807
  Notes: Dr. John Shaw, of Annapolis, settles at Baltimore and joins Drs. Davidge and Cocke in instructing medical students, taking the Department of Chemistry.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 675
• Dates: 1807, Dec. 18
  Notes: “The College of Medicine, of Maryland, incorporated. Drs. Davidge, Shaw, Cocke, Brown (Geo.), Wm. Donaldson and Thos. E. Bond, in charter as professors of the new college, but the last three in decline, and Dr. Nat. Potter is elected to chair of Practice, vice Dr. Brown. Dr. Davidge erects an Anatomical Hall, southeast corner Liberty and Saratoga streets, as a lecture and dissecting room, but it is torn down and his anatomical preparations destroyed by a mob (Griffiths’ Annals; Potter’s History of the College).”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 25
• Dates: 1807-1809
  Notes: Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (1807-1890), with an Introductory Chapter, Notices of the Schools of Law, Arts and Sciences, and Theology, and the Department of Dentistry, and a General Catalog of Medical Alumni Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 210
• Dates: 1809
  Notes: SHAW, Dr. John, native of Annapolis, died 10 Jan. last on board the British Schooner Polly, on her passage from Charleston S.C., to the Bahamas. (Baltimore Federal Gazette, 15 March 1809).
  Source: Barnes, Robert, Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816 Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 289
• Dates: 1809
  Notes: “The College of Medicine has a class of (eighteen?) (Aiken), graduates (five?). Dr. Elisha DeButts elected vice Jno. Shaw deceased, to chair Chemistry; Dr. Sam’l Baker to chair Materia Medica.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 25
• Dates: 1809
  Notes: “Dr. Jno. Shaw ob. aet. 30.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 25
• Dates: 1809/01/10
  Notes: Deaths: Drs. John Shaw, at sea on his way to the Bahama in search of health, January 10, aet. 30; Z. Magruder, in Montgomery County, December 2, aet. 44
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 677