Theodore Schaffer [SEP] educated at
, when nineteen years old, resumed his studies, and later attended the Western University, now University of Pittsburgh. When fourteen years old he began work in the iron mill of Moorhead, McLean & Co., of Pittsburgh, remaining there a year and a half, and then worked until 1872 at the Penn forge (Everson, Preston & Co.) iron mill. He was employed by the same company for a time in a new mill at Scottdale, Pennsylvania, but returned and again worked at the Penn forge. He
Theodore Schaffer
Theodore Schaffer (born 1856) was president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, republican, Methodist. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1856, raised there, and educated in the public schools. His father, Mathias F. Shaffer, is a native of Karlsruhe, Germany, and came to the States as a young man, in 1847. 
Theodore Schaffer began selling papers when he was eight years old, and left school at the age of twelve, but afterwards