Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Schaefer, John P. 1854 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN P. SCHAEFER.

    John P. Schaefer, of Section 33, St. John township, is a life-long, resident
of Lake county, and for many years has been one of its prominent farmers and
representative citizens. He has been frugal, industrious and a good manager all
through his career, and at the prime of his years has acquired a competence in a
fine landed estate. He farms the small place where he resides, and rents out
most of his other property. He has also identified himself with various
community interests, and as an all-round successful man is a fine example of
sterling American citizenship.

    Mr. Schaefer was born in Center township of Lake county, on October 9, 1854.
His father, Jacob Schaefer, a native of Germany, is counted among the early
settlers of Lake county, and lived to be eighty-three years old, having spent
his life as a farmer. His wife was Maggie Willem. also a native of Germany, and
she died at about the age of sixty-five years. There were nine children in the
family and all of them reached manhood and womanhood.

    Mr. John P. Schaefer was the youngest of the family. He was nine years old
when the family moved over into St. John township, and he was reared and
received most of his education here. He remained at home and assisted his father
in the cultivation of the farm until the latter's death, and he has continued
farming to the present, gradually adding to his estate interests as lie was
prospered. He now owns four hundred acres where the old homestead is situated,
and seventy-three acres where his present residence is located. He does general
farming and stock-raising. He located on his present farm in 1901, having lived
in section 35 previous thereto, and gives most of his own labors and attention
to the seventy-three acres at his home, renting nearly all the rest of his land.

    Mr. Schaefer is a Democrat as far as concerns national politics. but in
local affairs tries to vote for the best man. regardless of what party tag he
bears. He has church membership with the St. John's Catholic church. He was
married in 1883 to Miss Susan Jordan, who was born in St. John township, Lake
county, October 5, 1864. a daughter of John A. and Johanna (Klassen) Jordan, old
settlers of Lake county. Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer have six children: Maggie,
Edward, Carrie, Zelie, Mary and John A.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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