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 | | He was born in Clinton county, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of April, 1841, a son of Benjamin B. Shaffer, a farmer, who removed from the Keystone state to Illinois in 1856, locating in Knox county, where he passed the remainder of his life. |
 | | Shaffer was born in Wayne County, Ohio, July 15, 1843, and was formerly a teacher in the public schools of Knox County. |
 | | The father studied medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, where after graduating, he engaged in practice, and from whence he removed to Sangamon and Knox counties, and continued the practice in the latter county until his death, which was caused by an accident on the cars at Galesburg, in 1870, he having attained the age of 70. |
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