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PAUL WERNTZ SHAFER (April 27, 1893 - August 17, 1954) was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Born in 1893 in Elkhart, Indiana, his family moved to Three Rivers, Michigan, and ...view morePAUL WERNTZ SHAFER (April 27, 1893 - August 17, 1954) was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Born in 1893 in Elkhart, Indiana, his family moved to Three Rivers, Michigan, and he attended Ferris Institute (now Ferris State University) in Big Rapids, Michigan. He studied law by correspondence with the Blackstone Institute of Chicago, Illinois and became a reporter, editor, and publisher of newspapers in Elkhart, Indiana, Battle Creek, Michigan, and Bronson, Michigan. He was a member of the Indiana State Militia in 1916 and 1917 and served as a municipal judge in Battle Creek from 1929-1936.
Shafer won the Republican Party primary elections of September 1936 for Michigan’s 3rd congressional district. He was elected to the 75th United States Congress and to the eight succeeding Congresses, serving from January 1937 until his death in 1954 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 61, two weeks after being re-nominated in the Republican primary election to the 84th Congress.
JOHN HOWLAND SNOW (July 29, 1901 - December 22, 1988) was an American author, editor and publisher.
Born in 1901 in Evanston, Illinois, he attended schools in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. He travelled extensively throughout the 1920’s, hiking through 22 countries and touring the British isles by bike. During the 1930’s he established an import-export business in 21 countries and during World War II worked aboard a Norwegian ship before arriving back in New York in 1941.
He published his first book America—Which Way? in 1945. He went on to write a total of six books, and in 1953 set up his own publishing company, The Long House, Inc. He married Mary Elizabeth Robey (1907-1977) and in 1955 the couple moved from New York to Wilton.
Snow passed away in 1988 at the age of 87.view less