SHAFER, HERMAN — Farmer, section 17, P. O. Lincoln. Was born in Ohio, April 11, 1844, and at the age of four years accompanied his parents to Wisconsin and was there raised and educated, He engaged in farming and in the fall of 1861 he came to Iowa, locating in Delaware county. He remained there until the fall of 1861 and then went to Missouri, where he continued his former avocation, and in October of 1874 he came to this county and is the owner of 129 acres of land. In 1864 he enlisted in company F, Sixteenth Iowa, and served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He was married in Delaware county, Towa, October 7, 1868, to Miss Augusta A. Hotchkiss. They have three children: Herbert E., Bertha E. and Martha.
SOURCE: Union Historical Company, The History of Polk County, Iowa, p. 983
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