Re: Schaffter Family
SCHAFFTER, HALL, DOVE, HECKHART, HECKERT, HECKART, RUDY, MCCOMBER
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Schaffter Family (Marie-Thérèse Schaffter)
Date: 6/11/2018 at 18:09:08
I was able to locate the dates and places you were seeking, along with some obituaries you don't already have.
C. Albin Schaffter to Lucy Kate Hall
Marriage: 11 January 1861 in Lynchburg County, VirginiaEugene Schaffter to Hattie Heckhart
Marriage: 16 November 1893 in Eagle Grove, Wright, IowaCamilla Schaffter born: 1 January 1898 in Eagle Grove, Wright, Iowa
Camilla Schaffter married: William L. McComber on March 19, 1918 in Eagle Grove, Wright, Iowa
They divorced after a few years of marriage. No children.Camilla Schaffter McComber died 22 June 1988 in Washington, DC
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On Wednesday, June 22, 1988. Camilla Schaffter McComber of Washington, DC, sister of Dr. Dorothy Schaffter. Memorial services will be held at The Georgetown Presbyterian Church, 2115 P St. NW, on Sunday, June 26 at 12 noon. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to at The Georgetown Presbyterian Church.The Washington Post -- Washington, DC
24 June 1988*********
Employment in Washington, DC:
Camilla McComber, chief of the copyright clearance unit of the editorial division of the editorial division of the International Information Administration.**************
Rock Creek Cemetery – Washington, DC
MCCOMBER, Camilla, Birth; 1/1/1898, Death 6/22/1988, Burial: 6/25/1988, Section: 3, Lot: 319, Grave: 1SCHAFFTER, Dorothy, Birth: 09/12/1894, Death: 10/9/1993, Burial: 10/12/1993, Section: 3, Lot: 319, Grave: 3
SCHAFFTER, Hattie H., Birth: 8/20/1871; Died; 9/22/1967, Burial: 9/25/1967, Section: 3, Lot: 319, Grave: 2
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Former Eagle Grove resident, Mrs. Eugene Schaffter died at the age of 96 on September 22nd [1967] in Washington, D.C. She was buried in Washington. Mrs. Schaffter had lived for many, many years in Washington with her daughters, Camilla and Dorothy, in the Georgetown area. Mrs. Schaffter was the former Hattie Heckert and she was married to Eugene Schaffter in 1893, who was a well known lawyer in this city. He served as mayor here in the early 1900's, was on the school board for years. His father was in the newspaper business here and owned "The Telephone" and later started the "Boone Valley Gazette" which he published until his death.
Miss Camilla Schaffter is employed in the State Department and plans to retire in January. Miss Dorothy Schaffter, who was a college instructor, retired some years ago. The Schaffter family home was on South Iowa Ave, where the Lyle Amonson family now lives. Mrs. Schaffter was a sister of Mrs. James Rudy of Eagle Grove, who died many years ago.
Eagle Grove Eagle -- Eagle Grove, Iowa
December 21, 1967************
Dorothy Schaffter, 99, a former political science professor and college president who became a writer and researcher for the Legislative Research Service of the Library of Congress, died of pneumonia Oct. 8 at The Georgetown, a retirement residence in Washington. Dr. Schaffter joined the staff of the Library of Congress in 1946 and retired in 1964 as research counsel of the government division of the Legislative Research Service. She worked several more years as a consultant. While working for the library, she wrote a history of the National Science Foundation and books on the judicial interpretation of war's effect on life insurance contracts and the judicial interpretation of war's effect on military courts.Dr. Schaffter was born in Eagle Grove, Iowa. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received master's and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of Iowa. She taught at Iowa until 1930, when she joined the faculty of Vassar College. She was a full professor of political science at Vassar in 1943 when she was named president of Connecticut College for Women. She held that post until 1945, when she moved to Washington and became a writer and historian with the American Council on Education. She joined the Library of Congress the following year. Dr. Schaffter was an elder and trustee of Georgetown Presbyterian Church. In 1971, she wrote a history of the church. She leaves no immediate survivors.
Washington Post --- Washington, DC
October 11, 1993********
Camilla Schaffter McComber's husband [divorced]:William Lamont McComber born 31 July 1900 in Palo Alto County, Iowa;
Died 13 November 1968 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota****
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