BIO:  Lewis W. Shafer, 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, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 181

LEWIS W. SHAFER was born in Manheim Township, December 16, 1843, is the eldest son of Nicholas 
and Elizabeth (Weigandt) Shafer, natives of Maryland and German, respectively.  He lived on a 
farm until seventeen, attended York County Academy one term, taught school one term, then 
entered the service of the Northern Central Railroad Company at York, as clerk in motive power 
department, remained two years and a half; attended commercial college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; 
graduated in 1864; entered the office of Northern Central Railroad Company at Glen Rock as 
clerk and book-keeper, remained four years; engaged in business at Glen Rock two years; sold 
out, and returned to his clerkship in the railroad office, and four months afterward was 
appointed agent of the company, and at this writing (1884), is also telegraph operator, express 
agent, general insurance agent, and secretary of the Glen Rock Manufacturing Company, of which 
he was a charter member.  He was married, September 27, 1868, to Addie C. Foust, of Glen Rock, 
and they have seven children:  Ida A., Elizabeth, Addie, Charles F., Jennie, Lewis W. and an 
infant unnamed.  He and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.  He is a Master Mason, and has 
served one term as school director, and one term as councilman.