FRED SCHAFROTH

SCHAFROTH

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 18:51:34

FRED SCHAFROTH, one of the leading stock-raisers and farmers of Jasper township, was born in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, February 5, 1841. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Sutlen) Shafroth, natives of the same place. In 1852 the family, consisting of the parents and nine children, emigrated to America and settled in Monroe county, Ohio. There Mr. Shafroth purchased a farm and passed the remainder of his days. He died in the spring of 1863, and his wife survived him but three weeks.

Young Shafroth was reared on a farm and attended the district school; he assisted his parents in the maintenance of the family until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted August 14, 1862, in Company E, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in many hard-fought battles, and did his country valiant service. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged, June 14, 1865, and returned to his Ohio home where he resumed the occupation of agriculture.

Mr. Shafroth was united in marriage June 6, 1866, to Miss Margaret Walter, a native of Switzerland and a daughter of Jacob Walter, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1853, and settled in the state of Ohio. In the spring of 1868 our subject came to Adams county, and settled on what is known as the Dairy Farm near Corning; there he resided until 1877, when he purchased his present farm, which contains 200 acres of good land in a high state of cultivation. He makes a specialty of breeding short-horn cattle and Berkshire hogs.

Mr. and Mrs. Shafroth are the parents of five children: Emma M., Mary, the wife of Rev. W. C. McClelland, of Donaway township; Cora, Louis and Clara. The family were deeply bereaved by the death of the wife and mother, which occurred January 10, 1882, at the age of thirty-seven years.

Mr. Shafroth is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party.