Vitals | name: | Friedrich Ferdinand Schäfer 1 (German)
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer 2 (anglicized) | | parents: | May be Gottfried and Joh[anna] Erdemüthe Schafer,1 both born in Prussia 3 | | born: | either: Zorbau,1 Weißenfels,1 Prussia,3 25 November 1 1839 1, 2
or: Braunschweig,4 Prussia,3 16 August 5 1839 2, 5 | | married: | Sophie Braun (1838-1924) 6, 7 in 1860 4 | | children: | Otto Max (1867-1911) 8
Eda (1882-1935) 4, 7, 14 | | moved to U.S.: | Probably in 1871 (age 32) 9 | | moved to California: | by 1876,10 possibly as early as 1873 5, 11 | | studio: | San Francisco, California, 1880-1886 12
presumably in his residence from 1887 onwards | | residence: | Oakland, California, 1880-1882 3, 13
Alameda, California, 1883-1904 2, 13
Oakland, California, 1905-1927 13 | | naturalized: | San Francisco, California, October 24, 1884 2 | | died: | Oakland, California, July 18, 1927 (age 87) 5, 14 | | Sources 1. Possible parish birth record of the artist. 2. 1886 Great Register of Alameda County, California. 3. 1880 United States Census for Frederick Schafer family, Oakland, California. 4. William K. Dick notes (undated, c. 1975) of a conversation with the artist's grandson Frederick O. Hughes. 5. Death certificate of Fredrick F. Schafer, informed by daughter Eda Schafer Freitas. 6. Death certificate of Sophie Braun Schafer, informed by "Fredrick" Schafer. 7. Obituary of Sophie Schafer, Oakland Tribune, 1 July 1924. 8. 1906 Alameda County Voter Registration, Fourth Ward, Precinct No. 6, entry 242. 9. S. S. Thuringia departure from Hamburg.
S. S. Thuringia arrival at New York City. 10. A 1976 advertisement of a San Francisco sale including paintings by Schafer. 11. Departure of a Frederick Schafer and family from New York. Itinerary via Panama. Arrival in San Francisco in April 1873. 12. Langley's San Francisco Directory, 1880-1886. 13. Husted's Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley Directory, 1879-1927. 14. Obituary of Frederick F. Schafer, Oakland Tribune, 19 July 1927. |