Albert Shaw, editor of the American Review of Reviews, was born
in Shandon, Butler county, Ohio, July 23, 1857. He is the son of
Dr. Griffin and Susan (Fisher) Shaw. Graduating from Iowa college,
Grinnell, Iowa, in 1879, he became part owner of the Grinnell Herald,
while taking a post-graduate course in constitutional history and
economic science. He also studied history and political science at
the Johns Hopkins university. All this was preparatory to entering
the profession which he had chosen as his life work. Next he became
editorial writer on the Minneapolis Tribune in 1882, studied journalism
in Europe for a year, and in 1891 began to conduct the well-known
publication with which he is now identified. Mr. Shaw is the author of
a number of works on municipal government and political science, on
which subjects he is accepted as an authority. He is a member of many
learned societies and is well known on the lecture platforms of the
universities and colleges of this country. Mr. Shaw is an excellent
example of the value of thorough preparatory work looking to a given
career.