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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.