A. E. SCHAFFER is a business man of widely extended experience, and for many years has been closely identified with the commercial and civic life of Wapakoneta and Auglaize County.
     He is of German ancestry.  His paternal grandparents spent all their lives in Germany, and his maternal grandfather was Adam Lenhart.  His father, George Schaffer, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1837, and came to Auglaize County, Ohio, when eighteen years of age.  For many years he followed the trade of cooper, and afterward was in the grocery business until he retired  ten years before his death, which occurred in June, 1910.  He was prosperous in his business affairs, was active in the democratic party and in the Catholic Church, but never sought any official honors.  George Schaffer married Mary Lenhart, who was born in Shelby County, Ohio, June 5, 1845, and is still living and has passed her seventieth birthday.  The parents were married in Shelby County.  Of their seven children the four now living are:  A. E. Schaffer; George S., who is a tie contractor at Fort Smith, Arkansas; W. T., a grocer at Wapakoneta; and Frank, who is deputy sealer of weights and measures.
     With an education in the parochial and public schools, A. E. Schaffer found his first business experience in the grocery store of his father, for whom he worked until he was twenty-two.  He was then in the grocery business for himself, and altogether had sixteen years of experience in that line.  Selling out his interests he became representative in Ohio for a New York City commission house, and during the four years spent in that business he made Wapakoneta his headquarters.
     For a number of years now Mr. Schaffer has been one of the men controlling and directing the affairs of the Democratic Printing Company of Wapakoneta.  This company published the Daily News and the Auglaize County Democrat.  From his duties in that company Mr. Schaffer was called by election in 1909 to the office of county auditor, which he filled with credit and efficiency for four years.  Since leaving office he has continued the management of the Democratic Printing Company at Wapakoneta.
     In 1891 he married Miss Maggie Culleton, of St. Marys.  He and his wife are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and for years he has been one of the active leaders in the democratic party of Auglaize County.  Mr. Schaffer has had much to do with the success of the county and with local fairs held in this part of Ohio.  He is secretary of the local Fair Association, an office he has filled for twenty years, and is also circuit secretary of the Ohio Fair Circuit, which comprises fifty-four of the leading fairs in the state.
Source:  History of Northwest Ohio  Vol. II - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York - 1917 - Page 735