BIOS: Isaac D. SHAFFER, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg. 496

Isaac D. SHAFFER.

Isaac D. Shaffer, one of the most prominent and enterprising of the business men 
of Scalp Level, Pennsylvania, was born at Windber, February 2, 1854.  His 
ancestral history will be found in the sketch of Josiah D. Shaffer, elsewhere in 
this work.  His education was obtained in the public schools, and he settled on 
a farm near Windber, in 1879, where he still (1906) resides.  He is a practical 
man of business, and ossessed of sound judgment.  He sold the coal under one 
hundred and ten acres of his land, in 1892, to A. F. Sayers, of the Wilmore Coal 
Company, and they opened a drift known as No. 31.  In addition to cultivating 
his farm he is engged in the dairy business, and for a number of years had 
furnished milk to the citizens of Windber.  He has besides this a number of 
other business interests: Is stockholder and director in the Citizens' National 
Bank; director and stockholder in the Windber Building Association; director in 
the Johnstown and Shelp Electric Road Company; and has been president of the 
Solex Telephone Company for three years.  He is a member of the German Baptist 
or Dunkard church, and was assessor of Paint township in 1898.  He is a man of 
energy and intelligence, and is greatly esteemed by his fellow citizens.
He married, April 13, 1876, Susannah Weaver, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth 
Weaver, and they had children: Milton W., born July 4, 1877, married Anna Faust, 
October, 1898, and has one child, Margaret, born August, 1899; Ida, born July 
25, 1878, married 1895, Milton Livingston, and has four children: Edna, born 
1897, David, Byron and Franklin; Minerva, born April 6, 1882; Emma, born July 
20, 1885, married Franklin Seese; Mary, born May 24, 1887; Rachel, born August 
8, 1890; Arthur, born August 7, 1892; Elizabeth, born September 9, 1894, died 
January 10, 1895; William A., born May 6, 1896; Martha, born March 21, 1899.