Walter lived in Newark's Ironbound District until he was 19, going to Barringer High School. He was only one of five children who went to high school, graduated from Stevens Tech in 1911 with an engineering degree. Instead of going into engineering, he got a position at an insurance company named Ocean Accident and Guarantee Insurance Co. where he met Katherine Ruth Weber. In May 1914, he married her and graduated from New York Law School in 1915 which helped him with drafting insurance contracts.
In 1922, he used this knowledge to start his own insurance company named Walter A Schaefer & Co., with an office in Newark until after World War II. By the late 1920s and 1930s, Walter Sr. was president of the Casualty Underwriters Association, part of the Essex County Association of Insurance Agents. During World War II, Ruth and Walter served as air raid wardens, and later he rank against a well-liked Republican Fred Hartley, using his admiration of Lincoln to his advantage although he was not successful. Later he served as senior citizen affairs adviser for a Democratic Senator named Carmen Orechio, started a speakers club in Nutley, and was honored by the club and town council at his 100th Birthday in 1990, before his death later that year, on December 1, 1990, outliving his son, Walter Jr. who died in October.
Walter Sr.'s parents were George Schaefer and Margaret Bahr. George was an immigrant from Germany in 1871 (and born in 1847) who was a baker in New York for years, dying between 1899 and 1900. Walter's mother, by contrast, was born in Tusten, Sullivan, New York in 1854. Born to a family from Bavaria, Germany, her father was a farmer named John Bahr (1825-1892) and her mother was named Margaret (b. 1829). After marrying George Schaefer, she served as administrator of his will which was written in 1894, with the administration in 1900 to "five minor children," one of whom was Walter Sr. He would live on 95 York Avenue from 1900 to 1910, and later within Essex, New Jersey.
Walter later married Marjorie Cleary. He died on December 1, 1990 in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey.
In 1922, he used this knowledge to start his own insurance company named Walter A Schaefer & Co., with an office in Newark until after World War II. By the late 1920s and 1930s, Walter Sr. was president of the Casualty Underwriters Association, part of the Essex County Association of Insurance Agents. During World War II, Ruth and Walter served as air raid wardens, and later he rank against a well-liked Republican Fred Hartley, using his admiration of Lincoln to his advantage although he was not successful. Later he served as senior citizen affairs adviser for a Democratic Senator named Carmen Orechio, started a speakers club in Nutley, and was honored by the club and town council at his 100th Birthday in 1990, before his death later that year, on December 1, 1990, outliving his son, Walter Jr. who died in October.
Walter Sr.'s parents were George Schaefer and Margaret Bahr. George was an immigrant from Germany in 1871 (and born in 1847) who was a baker in New York for years, dying between 1899 and 1900. Walter's mother, by contrast, was born in Tusten, Sullivan, New York in 1854. Born to a family from Bavaria, Germany, her father was a farmer named John Bahr (1825-1892) and her mother was named Margaret (b. 1829). After marrying George Schaefer, she served as administrator of his will which was written in 1894, with the administration in 1900 to "five minor children," one of whom was Walter Sr. He would live on 95 York Avenue from 1900 to 1910, and later within Essex, New Jersey.
Walter later married Marjorie Cleary. He died on December 1, 1990 in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey.
Walter lived in Newark's Ironbound District until he was 19, going to Barringer High School. He was only one of five children who went to high school, graduated from Stevens Tech in 1911 with an engineering degree. Instead of going into engineering, he got a position at an insurance company named Ocean Accident and Guarantee Insurance Co. where he met Katherine Ruth Weber. In May 1914, he married her and graduated from New York Law School in 1915 which helped him with drafting insurance contracts.
In 1922, he used this knowledge to start his own insurance company named Walter A Schaefer & Co., with an office in Newark until after World War II. By the late 1920s and 1930s, Walter Sr. was president of the Casualty Underwriters Association, part of the Essex County Association of Insurance Agents. During World War II, Ruth and Walter served as air raid wardens, and later he rank against a well-liked Republican Fred Hartley, using his admiration of Lincoln to his advantage although he was not successful. Later he served as senior citizen affairs adviser for a Democratic Senator named Carmen Orechio, started a speakers club in Nutley, and was honored by the club and town council at his 100th Birthday in 1990, before his death later that year, on December 1, 1990, outliving his son, Walter Jr. who died in October.
Walter Sr.'s parents were George Schaefer and Margaret Bahr. George was an immigrant from Germany in 1871 (and born in 1847) who was a baker in New York for years, dying between 1899 and 1900. Walter's mother, by contrast, was born in Tusten, Sullivan, New York in 1854. Born to a family from Bavaria, Germany, her father was a farmer named John Bahr (1825-1892) and her mother was named Margaret (b. 1829). After marrying George Schaefer, she served as administrator of his will which was written in 1894, with the administration in 1900 to "five minor children," one of whom was Walter Sr. He would live on 95 York Avenue from 1900 to 1910, and later within Essex, New Jersey.
Walter later married Marjorie Cleary. He died on December 1, 1990 in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey.
In 1922, he used this knowledge to start his own insurance company named Walter A Schaefer & Co., with an office in Newark until after World War II. By the late 1920s and 1930s, Walter Sr. was president of the Casualty Underwriters Association, part of the Essex County Association of Insurance Agents. During World War II, Ruth and Walter served as air raid wardens, and later he rank against a well-liked Republican Fred Hartley, using his admiration of Lincoln to his advantage although he was not successful. Later he served as senior citizen affairs adviser for a Democratic Senator named Carmen Orechio, started a speakers club in Nutley, and was honored by the club and town council at his 100th Birthday in 1990, before his death later that year, on December 1, 1990, outliving his son, Walter Jr. who died in October.
Walter Sr.'s parents were George Schaefer and Margaret Bahr. George was an immigrant from Germany in 1871 (and born in 1847) who was a baker in New York for years, dying between 1899 and 1900. Walter's mother, by contrast, was born in Tusten, Sullivan, New York in 1854. Born to a family from Bavaria, Germany, her father was a farmer named John Bahr (1825-1892) and her mother was named Margaret (b. 1829). After marrying George Schaefer, she served as administrator of his will which was written in 1894, with the administration in 1900 to "five minor children," one of whom was Walter Sr. He would live on 95 York Avenue from 1900 to 1910, and later within Essex, New Jersey.
Walter later married Marjorie Cleary. He died on December 1, 1990 in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey.
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