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JOSHUA SHAFFER

In the early days, as late as 1872, buffalo hunting was a popular sport. Joshua Shaffer and his son Lewis went out to where Wichita now is and brought home a fine lot of buffalo 'meat for winter and a lot of hides and several buffalo calves which they kept on the farm. They trained a pair to work in the yoke as oxen and excited much interest as they drove them about, especially at the county fairs. They were finally taken to Coney Island, New York. Joshua Shaffer was from Van Wert, Ohio, where he married Catherine Hagerman. Their children were Lewis N. who married Catherine Ireland; Sarah J. married Thomas Fife; Martha married Joshua Perkins, Elizabeth married Sylvanus Perkins and Ellen married James Ireland.

(History of Linnn County, by William Ansel Mitchell, 1928, Page 352)

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