FLOYD SAMUEL SHUMWAY-Among the enterprising group of the younger merchants of Greenfield Massachusetts,
Mr. Shumway has within recent years entered upon a field of well-deserved success in the management of the
Laythe-Fellows shoe store where he has won an approved standing along the most active business men of his
line in the township.
He is a son of Edward Paul and Minnie Amanda (Hand) Shumway and is in the ninth generation from his first
American ancestor, the paternal line being as follows:
(1) Peter Shumway was of French-Huguenot descent and migrated to America prior
to 1675 but later than 1660.
(11) Peter Shumway, born in1678 died in 1751 married Maria Smith.
(111) Oliver Shumway, born in Boxford Massachusetts in 1701, married Sarah Pratt.
(IV) Oliver Shumway, born in Oxford Massachusetts October 12, 1725, married
Elizabeth Holman.
(V) Abner Shumway, born in Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1748, died in 1813, served in
the War of the Revolution, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill; he married Lucy Howe.
(VI) Paul Shumway, born in Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1781, died in 1848;
married Mercy Gates.
(VII) Samuel Gates Shumway, born June 9, 1833 died January 7, 1916; married,
in 1862, Sarah Louise Carr and they were the parents of ; Edward Paul. of whom
further; Henry Ellsworth and Albert Hewes.
(VIII) Edward Paul Shumway was born at Lebanon Springs, Columbia County, New York
and he received his education in the public schools of his birthplace, and at Wyomanock
Seminary. After graduating he entered upon a business career, at first in the meat market
line with an uncle at Lebanon Springs, and with whom he remained fifteen years, when he
bought out his uncle's share and carried on the enterprise alone for three year's under his
own name. Disposing of his market he then because associated with railroad activates. at
first with the Long Island Railroad and later with the Rutland Railroad, moving his family to
Bennington, Vermont. where he remained two years. In 1904 he came to Greenfield Massachusetts
where he has made his home to the present, his employment being with the Boston & Maine
Railroad as freight conductor his route being on the Berkshire Division of the road from
Greenfield, Massachusetts to Mechanicville, New York. His fraternal affiliation is those have
the Free and Accepted Masons, the Loyal Order of Moose and the brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen. He married, September 14, 1889, Minnie Amanda Hand, who was born
December 15. 1863 and they are the parents of:
1. Franklin Hand who is associated with the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
2. Paul Edward, a teacher in the Arms Academy, at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. He had & most
active career during the World War having been a. member of the aviation service for the United
States Government, and sharing in the operation of a bombing plane over the North Sea. He was
a member of the Naval Reserve five years, and received his discharge at San Diego, California
in 1925.
3. Floyd Samuel, of whom further.
4. Harold L. who enlisting in the United States Merchant Mariner, in August 1918, served in the
World War, and was stationed at Havre, France.
(IX) Floyd Samuel Shumway was born at Lebanon Springs, Columbia County, and New York May 14, 1894
and he received his education in the public schools of his birthplace and at Bennington Vermont.
Removing with his parents to Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1904, he completed his high school
course there when eighteen years of age, and it was while he was in school that he was employed
in the H. G. Carson Company Clothing Store. Since he has held the office of manager of the
Laythe-Fellows Shoe Company shoe store at Greenfield Mr. Shumway, joined the United States
Navy, December 17, 1917 at Newport, Rhode Island, and he served during the World War.
His fraternal afflictions are those of Pocomtuck Lodge, No. 67 and Green River Encampment,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. and his religious fellowship is with the Baptist Church. Mr.
Shumway married, December 27, 1927, Alice Georgianna Davenport, who was born in Greenfield,
January 10, 1896, a daughter of William A. and Belle M. (Shearer) Davenport. Their children are:
1. Herbert Davenport, born October 24, 1919.
2. William Edward, born February 28, 1922.
SOURCE: Western Massachusetts : a history : 1636-1925. New York. Lewis Historical Pub. Co.. 1926. Pages 752, 753
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