1893-94

Sam J. Shafer

Sam J. Shafer was senior editor of the Phonograph in Colby. He was one of the early settlers of Colby and was one of the most prominent men of northern Wisconsin. He was chief clerk of the state senate during Governor Wilbur Peck’s first administration. He was elected mayor of Colby several times. Throughout the great part of his life in Wisconsin he has been one of the leading men in the Democratic Party; and by his sterling honesty and never failing good nature won the respect and esteem of all. For years he has been identified with the leading workers in the I. O. O. F. Lodge at one time holding the next to the highest office in that order in Wisconsin.
Sam J. Schafer was born near Hamilton, Canada, June 6th, 1850. He and his family moved to Beaver Dam in 1854. He moved to Colby in August 1878, where he started the Phonograph.