General Notes

Taken from the History of Jay County, Indiana Volume II 1922         

Eugene E. Shafer, cashier of the Farmers State Bank of Redkey and for
many years one of the best known business men of that city, is a native
son of Jay county and has lived here all his life.  Mr. Shafer was born
on a farm in Penn township on November 7, 1875, and is a son of Daniel G.
and Mary A. (Underwood) Shafer, who more than twenty-five years ago
became residents of Redkey.  Daniel G. Shafer was born in Columbiana
county, Ohio, and was but a lad when he came with his mother and
step-father to Indiana, the family settling on a farm in Penn township,
this county, in 1846, among the pioneers of that section of the county. 
He grew up on that pioneer farm and after his marriage continued farming
until 1878, in which year he moved to Pennville, where he remained until
1894, the year of his removal to Redkey, where he became engaged as a
teamster and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death
occurring there on October 3, 1917.  Eugene E. Shafer was but three years
of age when his parents moved from the farm to Pennville and in the
excellent schools of this pleasant village he received his schooling. 
When the family moved to Redkey he became employed in a restaurant there
and presently became engaged in the restaurant business on his own
account, a business he followed for about twenty years or until he was
asked to take the position of assistant cashier in the Farmers State Bank
of Redkey.  It was on April 9, 1917, that Mr. Shafer entered upon his
service in the bank and on February 1, 1921, he was elected cashier of
the bank, the position he now occupies, one of the best known bankers in
this part of the state.  The Farmers State Bank of Redkey was organized
on March 18, 1914, with Lee Dearmond as president, Morton Dull as
vice-president and Mark A. Wilson as cashier.  Mr. Shafer is a 32d degree
(Scottish Rite) Mason and a Knight of Pythias.  He and his wife are
members of the Christian (Disciples) Church and are Republicans.  On May
14, 1919, Eugene Shafer was united in marriage to Ethel Blackburn, who
was born in the neighboring county of Delaware, daughter of George and
Nettie Blackburn, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter,
Thelma Pearl.  Mr. and Mrs. Shafer have a pleasant home at Redkey and
take an interest part in the general social activities of the community.