Shafer, Jacob K
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1826, in Rockingham county, Va. In 1849 he moved to Stockton, Cal., and in 1850 was elected district attorney. In 1852 he was elected mayor of Stockton, and in 1853 was judge of San Joaquin county, and continued in office until 1862, when he removed to Washington territory. He was elected delegate from the territory of Washington to the forty-first congress as a democrat.
SHAFFNER, TALIAFERRO PRESTON, inventor, author, was born in 1818 in Smithfield, Va. He was an inventor of note, and the author of The Telegraph Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The Secession War in America; History of America; and Odd Fellowship. He died Dec. 11, 1881, in Troy, N. Y.