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Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 210.
 
C. B. SHAFFNER

     One of the energetic and successful market gardeners in Lane county is C.
B. Shaffner, who has won a high reputation in that line, his twenty-two-acre
farm producing remarkable crops. Mr. Shaffner is a native of Ohio, born in 1853,
and is a son of William and Mary (Coffman) Shaffner, who were natives of
Pennsylvania, the father's natal year being 1824. He followed farming until his
retirement late in life, when he moved to a city home.

     C. B. Shaffner was reared under the parental roof and attended the public
schools of Ohio, remaining at home until twenty-one years of age, when he went
to South Dakota, where he took up a homestead and a tree claim, and also
preempted a tract of land near Pierre in 1882. He devoted his attention entirely
to cattle and remained in that state twenty-one years. In 1904 Mr. Shaffner came
to his present place in Lane county, where he bought thirty-nine acres of good
land, a portion of which he later sold, retaining twenty-two acres, which he
devoted to garden produce, principally head lettuce, peppers, carrots, beets,
cauliflower and cabbage, which he sells to the cannery and the stores. In 1926
he produced and delivered to the cannery one hundred tons of carrots and sixty
tons of beets.

     While living in South Dakota, Mr. Shaffner was united in marriage to Miss
Ella Siefert, who was born in South Bend, Indiana, and who died in 1924. They
had six children: Grant, who graduated from the University of Oregon in 1916,
and is married and lives in Salem; Florence, the wife of C. P. Hart, of
Bellingham, Washington; Bertha, the wife of Harold Wills, of Eugene, and mother
of a daughter. Phyllis; Donald; Grace; and Arthur. All are high school
graduates. Mr. Shaffner is independent in his political views but takes an
active interest in everything relating to the welfare of his community. White
living in South Dakota he served as a member of the school board and since
coming to Lane county has been a member of the board of county commissioners.
His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal church. He. is a
member of the Eugene Fruit Growers Association and the Grange. Standing for all
that is best in the life of the community, his record has gained for him the
unqualified confidence and respect of his fellowmen.

     
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