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CITY OF DUBOIS Page 109
dition". The part sold to Nick Stone eventually became vested in W.
N. Prothero, who plotted it in lots.
Mr. Shaffer's peace and quiet being again disturbed by
the growing population, he evidently decided to get as far away from
the growing city as he could, and he then traded the balance of the
land of George Shaffer III for a farm in Lawrence Township, a short
distance from Clearfield. Clearfield respected Mr. Shaffer's wish
for quietness, and on this farm he died in peace, many years after
he left the City of DuBois.
After Mr. Shaffer had left the city, the title in a
small piece of land on East Long Avenue came in controversy on
account of there being no deed out of Mr. Shaffer. He was
interviewed about this and he said, "Yes, I expected someone would
want this land some day. Bill Corley wanted the corner in there to
straighten out his lot he had bought off the Terpe property, and me
and Bill made a trade. I told Bill I would furnish the boards and
posts and give him the land if he would build a fence between us and
Bill constructed the fence, but I never gave him a deed". When asked
if he would now make a deed he promptly replied, "Yes, I'll make the
deed, but I won't pay for it."
At this time, this little piece of land had become very
valuable, and Mr. Shaffer could have exacted a price, but in line
with his honesty he knew that although he had parted with his title
for a song, yet it would be unfair to ask money for that which he
had given away.
George Shaffer II purchased from the legal owners the
land upon which his father, George Shaffer I had located in 1812,
and received his deed on the 6th of April 1838. George Shaffer II
having died, his property was divided by the Orphans' Court of
Clearfield County, and what was purpart Number One became vested in
Michael Shaffer, a son of George Shaffer II, and other members of
the family, who held it until some time in 1850, when Jacob
Heberling, with his family, emigrated from Schuylkill County and
purchased from Michael Shaffer and the other heirs, this piece of
land, receiving their deed on the 26th of August 1854. Jacob
Heberling conveyed his title to his son David Heberling.
In 1865 David Heberling, being lured by the then cheap
land in the west, and tiring of the wilderness, found a purchaser in
John Rumbarger, a lumberman, who had been drifting north from
Kittanning, where he had removed from his native county of
Huntingdon.
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