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Below is a family biography included in The History of Franklin County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Leopold M. Schaffer, the subject of this sketch, is one of the prominent 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 returned home and resumed agricultural pursuits, which he has since continued. 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 natives of Germany, where they passed their days.
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