Background
Shaw, Elton Raymond was born on January 19, 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Solomon Benjamin and Etta Ellen (Sadler) Shaw.
Shaw, Elton Raymond was born on January 19, 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Solomon Benjamin and Etta Ellen (Sadler) Shaw.
Bachelor of Laws, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1907. Master of Arts, 1916.
President Shaw Public Company 1907-1949. Sunday lecturer Michigan Prohibition State Committee, 1908-1912. Sunday and summer lecturer Ohio Prohibition State Committee, 1912-1914, chairman same, 1914-1916.
Graduate student and teacher public speaking, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1912-1916.
Dean College of Speech Education, Kansas Wesleyan University, 1916-1918, College of Commerce, 1918-1919. Lecturer in Kansas colleges for United Committee for War Temperance Activities in the Army and Navy, 1917-1918.
Lecturer Kansas Wesleyan Lyceum Bureau, 1916-1919, manager, 1918-1919. Financial secretary, business secretary, executive secretary and national lecturer, Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, 1919-1921.
Director Methodist Church Life Service and Older Boys conferences, 1921-1924.
With finance department Board of Education of Methodist Church, summers, 1922-1924. Connected with life insurance, 1924-1928. Field secretary Chamber Commerce United States of America, 1928-1934.
Executive secretary Michigan State Chamber Commerce, 1934-1937.
Executive secretary National Committee for Revision of “Comstock” Law since 1937, member American Academy Political and Social Science. World Narcotics Research Foundation since 1939.
Member American Philatelic Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Delta Sigma Rho, Pi Gamma Museum.
Married Mabel Crystal Bacon, September 9, 1909. Children: Everett Raymond, Evelyn Ruth (Mistress Fred B. Arbuckle), Ralph Bacon.