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Note: Comments by Richard Schafer........ My mother, Selma, born in Wilmington, daughter of Abe and Lina, was in the charter class of the University of Delaware graduated in 1918 and became a research chemist for DuPont in Nashville, TN during WW I. Abe had a very successful shoe business at 411 King St. in Wilmington with Bloomar and later bought him out. In 1921 he sold the business, retired and moved to Philadelphia where there would be more opportunities for his single 24 year old daughter to meet Jewish men. She met my father in 1921 when he was a young struggling physician having graduated from the Univ. of Pa. Medical School in 1914. He was born in Philadelphia in 1891, several months after his parents, Samuel and Susannah Schafer had arrived from Germany in 1890. My grandfather, Samuel, had a little tailor shop on Ridge Ave. in Phila. and spoke only German until my father entered public school in 1897. My father learned English in public school. I met Grandfather Schafer when I was 2 or 3 and vaguely remember a bald-headed man with glasses and a handle-bar mustache who spoke broken English and died when I was 3. Grandfather Bachrach (Abe) also died within one moth of Samuel Schafer in 1927 and I have more memories of Abe who was very American and had a good sense of humor.
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