SHAFFNER, E. C. 1861-1909

SHAFFNER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 10/7/2019 at 17:24:42

E C. Shaffner of Waterloo

Loses His Life In Gulf Coast Country.

Iowa furnished one prominent victim to the storm which swept the gulf coast country, leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake, E. C. Shaffner was the man and he was prominent at Waterloo until he caught the gulf coast fever and left for the Lone Star state, expecting to make his fortune in raising oranges, figs, garden truck and the hundred and one other things for which the gulf coast is famous.

He was caught in the storm near Houston and killed, much to the regret of his friends.
The severe storm has brought to public notice the large number of Iowa people who have invested in land in the gulf coast country the past few years. Not long ago thousands of Iowa people were investing in Canada lands, but just now there is a steady trend towards the coast, because of cheap productive land, fine climate and early crops for the northern market.

In Des Moines alone it has been estimated that fully 1,000 people have invested in the coast country and probably other towns in the state will show as large a proportion. Should this continue Iowa cities and towns and Iowa settlements will soon be as thick in Texas as they are now in Canada and California.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer July 30, 1909, 2, C4

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Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Waterloo and that he was born in 1861 and died July 21, 1909.

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