BIO:  George R. Shaffer, 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

GEORGE R. SHAFFER, farmer and dairyman, in Shrewsbury Township, was born in Codorus Township 
March 21, 1841.  His parents, Adam and Susanna (Ruhle) Shaffer, were natives of York County, 
and of German descent, and had eleven children – seven boys and four girls.  George R. was 
brought up on the farm, and educated at the common schools.  At twenty-one years of age he 
began the butcher business, and followed it four years.  January 10, 1867, he was married, in 
Shrewsbury Township, to Rebecca Nonamaker, of York County, and had six children, one of whom 
died young:  Henry Clinton, Jennie Florence, Arthur Ervin and Zura Alverta are living.  Mr. 
Shaffer moved to his present farm of 100 acres, at the time he was married, working it until 
1880, when he also commenced the dairy business.  He is a member of the Reformed Church, while 
his wife belongs to the Lutheran Church.  His father died in 1875, aged seventy-five years, and 
is mother in 1872, aged sixty-five years.