Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Shafer, James W. March 14, 1860 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

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JAMES W. SHAFER
	From every quarter have come those whose meed it is to gather up the 
wealth that nature has so lavishly bestowed in this county, and among that 
number there is one whose industry and capabilities have lifted him high in 
the realms of success, and whose integrity and uprightness have stamped him as 
one of the leading citizens in this agricultural utopia.  The place of Mr. 
Shafer’s birth is Pennsylvania, and his parents, Wesley and Savilla (Sterling) 
Shafer.  The date of his nativity is March 14, 1860.  For seventeen years he 
remained in the Keystone state and gained the training to be had in the common 
schools.  In the fall of 1877 he traversed the continent and settled in this 
county on a piece of railroad land that he since homesteaded.  To this he has 
added as much more by purchase and has now a fine farm of three hundred and 
twenty acres, upon which he raises wheat, summer fallowing portions of his 
land each year, thus keeping it in fine condition.  He has a good young 
orchard, a fine residence, and all the other improvements that his place 
demands.  For several years he was occupied in raising horses, but now gives 
his attention to growing wheat, in which line he has achieved good success.
	On May 1, 1892, Mr. Shafer took to himself a wife, Miss Cora E., 
daughter of T. G. And Emma (Duff) Elgin.  They have four children, Lester, 
Savilla I., David W. and Seth O.
	In his fraternal relations Mr. Shafer affiliates with the Modern 
Woodmen and the Maccabees.  In the Indian war of 1877-8 he was a volunteer, 
but did not get into any of the fights.  Since the time of his advent into the 
county until the present he has demeaned himself in such a worthy manner that 
he has won the confidence of those with whom he has associated and his strict 
attention to business has commanded the respect of all.  Just entering the 
prime of life, with a fine competence for temporal needs, and plenty for a 
working capital, still grater achievements may be expected from the same 
careful operations that have produced so abundantly.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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