Birth: 20 Jun 1881 – Kaiserslautern, Rheinpfalz, Bayern, Germany
Death: 9 Nov 1945 – West Bend, Palo Alto, Iowa, USA
Father: Carl Gottlieb Schafer (1856-1934)
Mother: Franziska Stein (1854-1889)
Marriage: 3 Mar 1910 – Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa, USA
Spouse: Elizabeth Marie Schmidt (1889-1973)
Children:
- Carl Gottlieb Schafer (1910-2007)
- Louis Fredrich Schafer (1911-1990)
- William Paul Schafer (1913-1979)
- Frances Margaret Schafer (1915-1916)
- Robert Otto Schafer (1917-1983)
- Otto Edward Schafer (1919-1979)
- Ernest Elmer Schafer (1920-1998)
- Benjamin George Schafer (1922-1944)
- Eleanor Margaret Schafer (1924-2011)
- Wilma Rose Schafer (1925-1997)
- Betty Marie Schafer (1927-2007)
- Leona Mae Schafer (1929-2014)
- Donald Fredrick Schafer (1930-2005)