Background
Shaw, Architecture Wilkinson was born on August 4, 1876 in Jackson, Michigan, United States. Son of James Franklin and Estelle Jane (Fenn) Shaw.
administrator publishing executive
Shaw, Architecture Wilkinson was born on August 4, 1876 in Jackson, Michigan, United States. Son of James Franklin and Estelle Jane (Fenn) Shaw.
Educated Public school and Harvard University. Master of Arts Olivet (Michigan) College, 1914. Doctor of Laws, Northwestern University, 1927.
President, Shaw & Company, director, Shaw-Walker Company, First National Bank of Winnetka, Illinois Associated with L. C. Walker (1899) in founding the Shaw-Walker Company, and with West. K. Kellogg in founding the Kellogg Company, 1906. President, 1903-1928 A. West. Shaw Company, publishers, Magazine of Business, System, Factory, Harvard Business Review, et cetera, and business books, 1903-1928. Lecturer Harvard, 1911-1917.
Member administration board Graduate School Business Administration, 1911-1913, faculty, 1914-1917, committee board overseers to visit Graduate School Business Administration, Harvard, 1920-1929.
Commission to Visit Harvard University Press. 1922-1929. Chairman Commercial Economy Board of Council National Defense (later Conservation Division War Industries Board), 1917-1918.
Member Requirements Division, War Industries Board, 1918. Director National Bureau of Economics Research, 1920-1937.
Chairman President's Committee on Recent Economics Changes, 1927-1940.
Trustee Century of Progress Exposition, Farm Foundation, 1934-1944, Hoover Foundation, since 1954. Member of the Republican Program Committee, 1940. Trustee Passavant Hospital, Chicago, since 1938.
Member administration board Graduate School Business Administration, 1911-1913, faculty, 1914-1917, committee board overseers to visit Graduate School Business Administration, Harvard, 1920-1929. Member Requirements Division, War Industries Board, 1918. Clubs: Chicago, University, Attic, Casino, Saddle and Cycle, Indian Hill (Chicago).
Married Eulah Paddock. Children: John Irving, Roger Dustin.