BIO:  Uriah S. Shaeffer, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Spring Garden Township, Pg 192

URIAH S. SHAEFFER, youngest of five children of John and Christianna (Leibenstein) Shaeffer, 
was born September 10, 1824, in York Township.  He went to his trade (miller) in 1843, at the 
mill now owned by Frank Deitz, on the Baltimore pike, about four miles from York.  August 20, 
1852, he married Margaret C. Shank, daughter of John and Mary (Busser) Shank, of Spring Garden 
Township.  This marriage was blessed with five children:  Mary Ann, Barbara E., John C. 
(deceased), William Henry and George Latimer.  Mr. Shaeffer was in the employ of P. A. & S. 
Small, for twenty-seven years, twenty-six years at the Spring Garden Mill.  Mr. Shaeffer’s 
grandfather, John Jacob Shaeffer, was born December 22, 1761.  January 4, 1785, married Dorathy 
Walter.  She was born September 20, 1761.  Their son (subject’s father) John Shaeffer, was born 
July 13, 1786, and died October 2, 1835, aged forty-nine years, two months, nine days.  His 
wife, Christianna Shaeffer, was born in York Township, September 1, 1790, and died August 1, 
1880, aged eighty-nine years and eleven months.