Biography

12/17/1838 - 11/17/1913

SCHAEFFER, George Donmoyer, a Representative from Berks County; born, December 17, 1838 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pa.; teacher; merchant, coal, lumber and feed; farmer; justice of the peace, Fleetwood (7 years); elected, council, Fleetwood; deputy sheriff, Berks County (15 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1876, 1877 and 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); notary public (1907-1913); died, November 17, 1913 in Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fleetwood Cemetery, Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania.