IRA EDWIN SHAFFER

SHAFFER, Ira Edwin, a Representative from Northumberland County; born in Freeburg, Snyder County, Pa., June 21, 1874; blacksmith; elected, council, Mount Carmel; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1913 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1914); elected, school board, Mount Carmel; died, March 7, 1943 in Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.