OBIT: John SCHAEFFER, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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JOHN SCHAEFFER

Dr. Schaeffer, Franklin and Marshall College President Laid to Rest

  Funeral services were held Wednesday in the Chapel of Franklin and Marshall 
College for Dr. John Ahlum Schaeffer, 54, F. and M. President who died Sunday 
night, April 6, 1941, at his home in Lancaster.
  The body lay in state from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Wednesday.  Students formed a 
guard of honor.
  Dr. T. Q. Garvey said Dr. Schaeffer's death was caused by a cerebral 
hemorrhage, apparently while he was reading in bed.  A daughter, Mary Schaeffer, 
found his body shortly before midnight.
  For 24 years prior to becoming president of the college in 1935, Dr. Schaeffer 
had been associated with the Eagle Pincher Lead Company of Joplin, Mo., and held 
the office of vice-president.  He was credited with several inventions in the 
point and ceramics field.
  Dr. Schaeffer was born in Kutztown, a son of the late Dr. Nathan C.   
Schaeffer, superintendent of public instruction in Pennsylvania for 26 years. A 
widower, he is survived by four children, Mrs. Francis Bennett of Joplin, John 
N. Schaeffer of Reading and Mary and William R. Schaeffer of Lancaster.
  As had been his custom for many years, Dr. Schaeffer had planned to attend the 
annual meeting and banquet of the Somerset district alumni association of 
Franklin and Marshall early in May.  The dinner meeting was scheduled for the 
Ferner Hotel in Somerset.
  Dr. Schaeffer had been president of Franklin and Marshall since 1935 and was 
respected as one of the youngest and finest college administrators in the state 
of Pennsylvania.  He was a graduate of F. and M. and held higher degrees from 
that and other colleges and universities.
  Long a respected member of the Evangelical and Reformed church and the Masonic 
fraternity, Dr. Schaeffer was also a fellow in numerous famous scientific 
organizations and societies in both the United States and England.
  During his teaching career, Dr. Schaeffer was prominent as an author of books 
and articles on scientific research which gained for him a prominent place among 
professional chemists.

Meyersdale Republican, April 10, 1941