Phineas A. Shaw, son of Phineas K., was born May 3, 1835. He was a soldier of the Civil War, enlisting May 10, 1861, in Co. E, 5th Wis. Inf., and was in several engagements with the Army of the Potomac, among them Williamsburg, McClellan's Seven Day s Fight, etc. From that time he was teamster of the ambulance corps until the spring of 1864 when he took his gun and joined his company again. He was discharged at Madison, Wis., July 30, 1864, returned to Alfred, in August married Fanny R., daughter of Joseph Stilman, of Alfred, and located in Almond. In 1894 he returned to Alfred.
