James H. Shaw

James H. Shaw is credited as the author of Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln, a juvenile biography published by Evergreen City Publishing Company in Bloomington, Illinois. The book is now in the public domain and has been preserved by Project Gutenberg, which helps keep his best-known work available to modern readers.

Shaw’s writing style is direct and approachable, aimed at helping children and general readers understand Lincoln’s life through narrative and brief illustrative stories. Instead of sounding academic, the book tries to make a major historical figure feel human and understandable.

Reliable biographical details about Shaw himself are scarce in the sources I could confirm, so little can be said with confidence about his personal life or broader career. What does remain clear is that his Lincoln biography has endured as a readable example of older educational writing for young audiences.