Alameda County Biographies

LOUIS SCHAFFERS

Transcribed by: Betty Wilson

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	LOUIS SCHAFFERS, the proprietor of the Fashion Stables and a prominent citizen at 
Livermore, was born in the city of New York, October 30, 1854.  In 1875 he came to San 
Francisco by rail, and was for a while employed in Oakland as a butcher for other parties, and 
then until the fall of 1882 he carried on the business there for himself.  Then selling out he 
went to Livermore and continued in the same business for a year, and finally purchased the 
well-known Fashion Stables of Jones & Wilkinson, which he now conducts with a fine patronage, 
as he is able to furnish a goodly number of handsome �turn-outs,� etc.  He is Republican in his 
political views, and has been of considerable service to his party, taking a prominent part in 
politics for fifteen years.  In 1885 he was elected Town Marshall; in 1886 Town Trustee, and in 
1888 re-elected; in 1889 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, which position 
he now holds.
	He was married in Oakland, October 24, 1889, to Miss Caroline Fougure, and their two 
children are named Arthur L. and William.

Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891