Background
He was born on July 24, 1800 at Sheffield, England, United Kingdom, the eldest of the four children of Sarah (Hoole) and Joseph Shaw, both natives of Leicester. His father was a manufacturer of grates and fire-irons.
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The Rose, Historical and Descriptive; Gathered from Various Sources
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Henry Shaw's Will: Establishing the Missouri Botanical Garden Admitted to Probate at St. Louis, Missouri, September 2, 1889; Also Act of General ... Shaw to Washington University, October 14, 18
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Henry Shaw
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Between the ages of ten and sixteen he attended Mill High School, near London. Here he acquired a good knowledge of French and received excellent training in mathematics.
Career
Emigrating to Canada with his father in 1818, he was sent to New Orleans to learn the cotton business but he remained less than a year. In May 1819 he went to St. Louis. There he set up a small hardware and cutlery business in a second-story room, where for a time he slept, cooked, and ate his meals as well as sold his goods.
By the time he was forty he had accumulated what he regarded as a fortune, and he retired from business to enjoy it. Most of the next ten years he spent in travel abroad, improving his knowledge of languages and becoming.
He had a great interest in plants and with advice from such men as Asa Gray, Dr. George Englemann, and Sir William Jackson Hooker, then the director of Kew Gardens, he established a garden in St. Louis that was in reality a scientific institution for the study of plants. Work was begun in 1857, and about 1860 "Mr. Shaw's garden, " as it was popularly known, was opened to the public. Through a special act of the legislature, the Missouri Botanical Garden, as he named it, was established under a self-perpetuating board of trustees, the income from Shaw's estate being its only source of revenue.
After 1851 he scarcely left St. Louis but devoted his time to the development of his garden and to the planning and planting of Tower Grove Park, his gift to the city.
He died in St. Louis.
Achievements
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Henry Shaw was founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he built up the nucleus of one of the best botanical libraries, as well as one of the largest herbariums, in the United States and provided in his will for the maintenance of a scientific staff which was to conduct scientific investigations. He also endowed what came to be known as the Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington University.
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The Rose, Historical and Descriptive; Gathered from Various Sources
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Henry Shaw's Will: Establishing the Missouri Botanical Garden Admitted to Probate at St. Louis, Missouri, September 2, 1889; Also Act of General ... Shaw to Washington University, October 14, 18
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The Rose, Historical and Descriptive; Gathered from Various Sources
Personality
Social life had little attraction for him, but he read widely and applied himself diligently to his work. He was a thoroughly cosmopolitan gentleman.
Connections
He never married.
