Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   JAMES SHAEFFER, a native of Berks County, Pennsylvania, was born
June 5, 1852, and is a son of John Shaeffer, a farmer by occupation.
   James Shaeffer is likewise a farmer, and was married in Newton 
County, Indiana, in 1878, to Miss Priscilla Jones, a daughter of 
Cornelius Jones, one of the pioneer farmers of Newton County, where 
he ended his earthly existence.  Mrs. Priscilla Shaeffer is a native 
of Ross County, Ohio, and has been favored as the mother of two
children--Katie M. and Mattie G.  
   Mr. Shaeffer has reside on his present farm since the year of his 
marriage, which farm he owns, and which comprises 103 acres.  He plants
about fifty acres in corn, twenty-five acres in oats, and handles fifty
to seventy-five head of hogs, twenty-five to thirty head of cattle and
about thirty tons of hay each year.  Mr. Shaeffer has a productive farm,
and is located two and one-half miles from Foresman Station. 


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