Biography

09/16/1816 - 01/26/1862


SHAFFNER, William, a Representative from Berks County; born, September 16, 1816 in Berks County, Pennsylvania; engaged, mercantile business; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1848 and 1849; died, January 26, 1862 in Rehrersburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery, Rehrersburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania. 


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