BIO:  Isaac Sheffer, 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 182

ISAAC SHEFFER, a miller of Shrewsbury Township, was born in Hopewell Township, April 12, 1844, 
and is the son of John and Hannah (Bahn) Sheffer.  John Sheffer was born in Shrewsbury Township 
in 1800; followed milling for a business, and in 1822, married Hannah Bahn, a native of 
Springfield Township, born in 1804.  He had born to him eight children, and departed this life 
about the year 1876.  Isaac Sheffer was married, in 1868, to M. M. Moffett, and to this union 
have been born five children.  The parents are members of the Lutheran Church and stand high in 
the estimation of the community.