Christian Slagle Shaffer and Jane Croes Lane

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Husband Christian Slagle Shaffer ¹

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           Born: 6 Mar 1823 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1 Apr 1905 - Abingdon, Knox Co, IL 1
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         Father: John Shaffer (1776-1863) 1
         Mother: Charlotte Slagle (1792-1846) 1

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       Marriage: 21 Jun 1864 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1

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Wife Jane Croes Lane ¹

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           Born: 24 Mar 1832 - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV 1
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General Notes: Husband - Christian Slagle Shaffer

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He attended schools in Washington and Hickory, Pennsylvania, until he was fourteen years old, when he commenced to learn his father's trade of saddlery and harness making, in 1837. He worked at home until 1840, when he went to Zanesville, Ohio, and worked with his brother William until 1843. He then returned home and worked with his brother Jacob until March 6th, 1844, when he, with James Eckert and Robert McElhinny, started for Fairfield, Iowa, and their friends never expected to see them again because they were going so far away. The trip was made from Pittsburgh to St. Louis and from St. Louis to Fort Madison by river steamboats. They left Pittsburgh the last week in March and reached Fort Madison in April. It commenced to rain the day they reached Fort Madison and rained every day until July 3rd. Messrs. Shaffer and Eckert were in business together till April, 1845, when Mr. Eckert went to Keokuk and Mr. Shaffer continued the business alone until 1849, when he sold out to Mr. Robert McElhinny. In 1848 and 1849, Mr. Shaffer bought and packed dressed hogs, paying one and one-fourth and two cents cash a pound and the balance in trade, for them. In March, 1850, he with a number of friends started for California, which they reached in ninety days. He stayed in California until the spring of 1851, when he, with his party, returned to Iowa by water, by way of the Isthmus of Panama. They crossed the Isthmus on foot, the trip across requiring one day to make it. From Panama they went to Havana and New Orleans by steamer; from New Orleans to St. Louis and from St. Louis to Keokuk by river packet boats. From Keokuk to Fairfield they travelled by coach, arriving in Fairfield on July 6th, 1851. In May, 1864, Mr. Shaffer went from Fairfield to Washington, Pennsylvania, where he was married. They returned to Fairfield, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1847 C. S. Shaffer was made a Mason and was an affiliated Master Mason for fifty-eight years. At the time of his death he was the last survivor of the charter members of Clinton Lodge No. 15. Among the occupations of Mr. Shaffer in later years, he performed the excellent service of renovating, and placing in position, the Museum of Natural History objects donated by his brother, Dr. Joshua Munro Shaffer, to the Public Library.

1 Ella Campbell Slagle Nichols, Family Record (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately published, 1914).