Biographical Sketch of Leopold M. Schaffer, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Leopold M. Schaffer, the subject of this sketch, is one of the promi-
nent citizens of Lyon Township, Franklin Co., Mo., and deputy assessor
under County Assessor Gerber.  He was born in Brunswick, Germany, in 
1826, and immigrated to America in 1851, locating in Franklin County,
Mo.  In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in the Federal cavalry service at
St. Louis, but, the cavalry being over supplied, he enlisted or was 
transferred to Company G, Forty-third Regiment of Illinois Infantry.
He served three years as a private, and was on detail part of the time
at the quartermaster's department.  At the close of the war he return-
ed home and resumed agricultural pursuits, which he has since contin-
ued.  He began assisting in the assessor's office in 1882, and has
continued there up to the present.  He is a Democrat in politics, and 
as such stands well with his party.  In 1852 Mr. Schaffer was united
in marriage to Miss Augusta Wurll, who was born in Germany in 1831, 
and came to America when a child.  To this union seven children were 
born, all living.  Mr. Schaffer had the misfortune to lose his wife in
1882.  His parents, Charles and Julia (Knoblauch) Schaffer, were nat-
ives of Germany, where they passed their days.

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