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FRIEDRICH SCHAFER, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. El Paso, Woodford Co.; was born in Waldmohr, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, May 11, 1820. At the usual age in that country, 14 years, he was apprenticed to the trade of a shoemaker. He came to the United States in 1852, and located at Washington, Tazewell Co., Ill., where he worked at his trade six years, and then engaged in farming. In 1864, he removed to McLean Co., and settled on his present farm. He owns 160 acres on Secs. 22 and 23, finely improved and cultivated besides 20 acres of timber on the Mackinaw; nor is his success in life to be estimated by the amount of real estate owned by him; he is, financially, one of the solid men of the community possessing those characteristics of his countrymen which enable them to succeed so often where others fail. He was married March 1, 1846, to Miss Louisa Vogelgesang, who was born in Breidefelder-Hof, Bavaria Aug. 28, 1828; they have seven children living - Frederick J. (now Pastor of the Evangelical Association of the Warrensburg and Clinton Mission, Kansas), Lewis (a farmer of Sumner Co., Kan.), Christian (a farmer, of Yates Township), John (of Sumner Co., Kan ) Katie L. (a music teacher, of Brown Co., Kan.), Louisa E. and Matilda.