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Harry Gustavus “Gus” Shaffer I

Birth	:	22 Jan 1885 Tunnelton, Preston County, West Virginia, USA
Death	:	3 Jul 1971
Burial	:	Kincardine Cemetery, Kincardine, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate	:	44.1613350, -81.6461868
Description	:	WV Blue Book (1924), p. 113: [HARRY GUS SHAFFER, (Republican), President of the Senate, was born in the town of Tunnelton, Preston county, on the 22nd day of January, 1885. After attending the public schools of Kingwood he entered the State University, at Morgantown, and graduated from that institution in 1908, receiving a law diploma. Locating in the town of Madison, the county seat of Boone county, to practice his profession, he soon became one of the leading advocates at the bar. The firm of Leftwich & Shaffer, of which he is a member, has attracted a clientele that has... Read More	WV Blue Book (1924), p. 113: [HARRY GUS SHAFFER, (Republican), President of the Senate, was born in the town of Tunnelton, Preston county, on the 22nd day of January, 1885. After attending the public schools of Kingwood he entered the State University, at Morgantown, and graduated from that institution in 1908, receiving a law diploma. Locating in the town of Madison, the county seat of Boone county, to practice his profession, he soon became one of the leading advocates at the bar. The firm of Leftwich & Shaffer, of which he is a member, has attracted a clientele that has insured a large and very successful law business. Nominated on the Republican ticket for the State Senate, in the Eighth Senatorial district, in 1920, his political strength and popularity were evidenced by the vote he received, having a majority of almost four thousand over his Democratic opponent. In the session of 1921 Senator Shaffer served on many important standing committees and was very active in looking into all proposed legislation. In 1923 he was the Republican caucus nominee for President of the Senate and at the organization of that body on January 10th was duly elected and installed into office. No fairer minded man, no man endowed with a keener sense of justice and right, has ever occupied the presidential chair in the State Senate. While a strict and loyal party man, he was uniformly considerate of the rights of the minority, and from the opening of the session until the hour of final adjournment commanded the unanimous respect of the membership and Senate attaches.] History of WV, Old and New (1923), Vol. 3, pp. 479 and 480: [Hon. Harry G. SHAFFER. The associates of Hon. Harry G. Shaffer, state senator from Boone County, twice mayor of Madison, and one of the most distinguished men of this part of West Virginia, unhesitatingly place him among the coming practitioners of the West Virginia bar, for he is perfectly at home in every department, whether civil or criminal, common law or chancery, real estate or corporation law. Because of this he has earned a firm place among the lawyers of the state. He is one of the ideal gentlemen of public life, a man of remarkable strength of character and unassuming courtesy. Senator Shaffer was born at Tunnelton, Preston County, January 22, 1885, son of Gus J. and Florence J. (Thomas) Shaffer. His parents were also born in Preston County, where his father is still living, his mother being now deceased. Senator Shaffer is properly proud of his family on both sides of the house. His maternal grandfather, Elisha Thomas, was twice sheriff of Preston County, and was the leading man of his locality for a number of years. The Thomas family is of Scotch-Irish descent. The Shaffer family, of German origin, first settled in America prior to the Revolution, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, at a point later known as Shafferstown. Adam Shaffer removed from this settlement to Washington County, Maryland, where he married Catherine Wotring, and they immediately joined the German settlement in Preston County, near Brookside. To them were born eight sons and four daughters, one of the sons, Daniel, being the grandfather of Senator Shaffer. Daniel Shaffer, born in 1805, married Elizabeth Izenhart, born in 1810. They had five sons and three daughters. Their home was also in Preston County. The sons were George Francis, Martin Luther, Jesse W., Gustavus Josephus and Arthur McKinley. The daughters were Susan, who married Thomas Humbertson, of Frostburg, Maryland; Mary, who married George Lantz, of Preston County; and Priscilla, who married James H. Wilson, also of Preston County. Gus J. Shaffer, the father of Senator Shaffer, has lived in Preston County the greater portion of his life, at different times at Fellowsville, Rowlesburg, Newburg, Austin, Carmel, Tunnelton and Kingwood. Gus J. Shaffer has been a merchant and a public man, for a number of years served as a director in Kingwood 's oldest bank, and his home is in Kingwood. He has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A member of the family at Carmel now has possession of the bullet moulds used by Catherine Wotring when but a small girl to mould bullets for the American Army. She was so engaged in 1777, the day the battle of Brandywine was fought, while her mother and older sisters worked in the fields in the absence of the father, who was in the army. Growing up in his native county. Senator Shaffer attended its common schools, and later the Kingswood school conducted by Prof. Rufus Holden at Kingwood, West Virginia. Following that he had one year "in an academic course and two years in law, graduating from the latter course in 1908. In 1909 he came to Madison, where he has since been engaged in the general practice of his profession. From the beginning of his connection with Boone County Senator Shaffer has taken a very active part in public affairs, and in 1918 and 1919 was selected mayor of Madison. During his life in Boone County he made such a record for service that in 1920 he was elected to the Upper House of the West Virginia Legislature from his district, and as a member of that body has given convincing proof of his disinterested desire to serve his constituents. In 1916 Senator Shaffer married at Madison Miss Brookie Turley, a daughter of W. H. and Hester (McClure) Turley, both natives of West Virginia. Mr. Turley is engaged in merchandising upon an extensive scale at Madison. Senator and Mrs. Shaffer have three children, namely: Catherine Hester, Florence Jane and Margaret Eleanor. The Baptist Church holds the membership of Mrs. Shaffer. Senator Shaffer is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a republican, and is one of the leaders of his party in his district. Professionally he belongs to the Boone County Bar Association and West Virginia State Bar Association. He is a member of Sigma Chi college fraternity, Delta Chi Law fraternity and The Mountain, the latter a college society of West Virginia made up of the leaders of all the other college fraternities. In the nature of things, a man endowed with so bright and rich a personality as Senator Shaffer would be a leader in polities, and in him Boone County acknowledges an exemplar of the highest kind of republicanism—the leadership of honor, of loyalty to the integrity of the community, the state and nation, and of sturdy American manhood. He leads the people because they have confidence in him. They have tried him and know him to be safe, fearless and ever alert and zealous for their interests.] WV Blue Book (1922), p. 108: [SHAFFER, HARRY GUS. (Republican). Address: Madison, West Virginia. A hold-over Senator from the Eighth District. Born in Tunnelton, Preston county, on the 22nd day of January, 1885; his early education was received in the public schools of Kingwood; later he attended the State University from which he graduated in 1908, receiving a law diploma; after graduation he removed to Madison, Boone county, where he is actively engaged in the practice of law and ranks as one of the leading advocates at the bar; in the 1920 primary he received the Republican nomination for the Senate and was elected in November following by a majority of nearly four thousand; in the 1921 sessions was chairman of the Senate Committee on Forfeited and Unappropriated Lands, and served also on the committees on Roads and Navigation, Militia, Banks and Corporations, Claims and Grievances, Public Library, Forestry and Conservation.] Contributor: 1Anonymous1 (50006409)

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Harry Gustavus “Gus” Shaffer I's memorial is located at: Kincardine Cemetery, Kincardine, Bruce County, Canada.
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Latitude: 44.1613350
Longitude: -81.6461868

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Brookie Mae Turley Shaffer

(1893 - 1976)

Siblings

Children

Catherine Shaffer Blair

(1916 - 1996)

Jane Shaffer Johnson

(1920 - 2012)

Harry Gustavus “Gus” Shaffer Jr.

(1926 - 2019)

Winfield Turley “Teke” Shaffer

(1928 - 2008)

Frank Brooks Shaffer

(1933 - 1934)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Kincardine Cemetery
Kincardine, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1613350, -81.6461868

2. Anglican Church of the Messiah Memorial Garden
Kincardine, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1736000, -81.6328600

3. Reid Family Cemetery
Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1749000, -81.6146000

4. Pine River United Cemetery
Pine River, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0913000, -81.7349000

5. St. Luke's Anglican Cemetery
Huron Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0911390, -81.7346940

6. Pine River United Church Cemetery
Ripley, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0908410, -81.7350930

7. Ripley Huron Cemetery
Ripley, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0691000, -81.5868000

8. Armow Methodist Cemetery
Armow, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1907700, -81.5102700

9. Bervie Methodist Church Cemetery
Bervie, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1278100, -81.4965700

10. Bervie Anglican Church Cemetery
Bervie, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1283220, -81.4960130

11. Bervie Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Bervie, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.1229730, -81.4827040

12. Tiverton Cemetery
Tiverton, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.2704180, -81.5416430

13. Olivet United Church Verdun Methodist Cemetery
Clover Valley, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0229710, -81.6154580

14. Inverhuron Cemetery
Inverhuron, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.2995100, -81.5987500

15. McKenzie
Huron Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0083420, -81.6313210

16. Lochalsh Cemetery
Lochalsh, Huron County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0079100, -81.6317070

17. Evangelical United Brethren Cemetery
Bruce Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.2814000, -81.4736000

18. Kinlough Methodist Cemetery
Kinloss Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0581000, -81.4429000

19. Port Bruce Cemetery
Baie du Doré, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.3266600, -81.5325200

20. Hope Methodist Cemetery
Ashfield Township, Huron County, Canada
Coordinate: 43.9817990, -81.5677030

21. St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery
Holyrood, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.0249130, -81.4642640

22. Shiloh Community Cemetery
Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.2606000, -81.4205000

23. McLean Family Cemetery
Glammis, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 44.2287950, -81.3965030

24. Kinloss Mennonite Cemetery
Kinloss Township, Bruce County, Canada
Coordinate: 43.9957771, -81.4917755