BIO:  Jesse 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, Codorus Township, Pg 94

JESSE SHAFFER, son of John and Margaret (Overmiller) Shaffer, second in a family 
of eleven children, was born in Hopewell Township in 1811, and was reared on his 
father’s farm.  He married Catherine Klinefelter, daughter of George and 
Elizabeth (Diehl) Klinefelter.  Five children have blessed this marriage:  
Rebecca, Elizabeth, George, Catherine and Jacob.  Mr. Shaffer has resided at his 
present home for the last forty years.  His farm contains 164 acres of excellent 
land, about forty acres of woodland.  In 1862 he build the Shaffer grist-mill, 
which has been in operation continuously ever since John Shaffer, our subject’s 
father, attained the ripe old age of eighty-two, when he died in Hopewell 
Township; his wife died in her fifty-eighth year.  Mr. Shaffer is one of the 
leading members of Shaffer’s Church.  He has been closely identified with this 
church since it was built, having aided largely by his means and time in its 
construction.