Isaac D. Shaffer ¹⁴³⁹

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BIOGRAPHY

Isaac D. Shaffer, one of the most prominent and enterprising of the business men of Scalp Level, Pennsylvania, was born at Windber, February 2, 1854. . . . . His education was obtained in the public schools, and he settled on a farm near Windber, in 1879, where he still (1906) resides. He is a practical man of business, and possessed of sound judgement. He sold the coal under one hundred and ten acres of his land, in 1892, to A. F. Sayers, of the Wilmore Coal Coompany, and they opened a drift known as No. 31. In addition to cultivating his farm he is engaged in the dairy business and for a number of years has furnished milk to the citizens of Windber. He has besides this a number of other business interests: Is stockholder and director in the Citizens' National Bank; director and stockholder in the Windber Building Association; director in the Johnstown and Shelp Electric Road Company; and has been president of the Solex Telephone Company for three years. He is a member of the German Bapatist or Dunkard Church, and was assessor of Paiant township in 1898. He is a man of energy and intelligence, and is greatly esteemed by his fellow citizens.

He married in April 13, 1876, Suannah Weaver, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Weaver, and they had children: Milton W., born July 4, 1877, married Anna Faust, October, 1898, and has one child, Margaret, born August, 1899; Ida, born July 25, 1878, married, 1895, Milton Livingston, and has four children: Edna, born 1897, David, Byron and Franklin; Minerva, born April 6, 1882; Emma, born July 20, 1885, married Franklin Seese; Mary, born May 24, 1887; Rachel, born August 8, 1890; Arthur, born August 7, 1892; Elizabeth, born September 9, 1894, died January 10, 1895; William A., born May 6, 1896; Martha, born March 21, 1899.

Source: History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Personal History
Author: Somerset County by William H. Welfley, Volume III
Publication: The Lewis Publishing Company, New York: : Chicago, 1906
Note: Information collected at the Clarion County Historical Library, Clarion, Pennsylvania.
Page: Page 496 ^1430,1439

Isaac married Susannah Weaver, daughter of Abraham A. "Abram" Weaver and Elizabeth Stutzman, on 13 Apr 1876 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹⁴³⁰ (Susannah Weaver was born on 1 Nov 1856 in Paint Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA ¹⁴³⁵ and died on 25 Jun 1924 in Quakertown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA ¹⁴³⁹.)