Age: 54
Served: 6 years
1873 to January 1879; January 1881 to April 3, 1881
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Tony was born as Anton Schaefer on December 3, 1826 in the village of Lohne in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in Germany. He immigrated to the United States and to Cincinnati between 1840 and 1850. He married Maria Agnes (Gausepohl) Meyer on October 26, 1850 in St Paul’s Church. Tony made venetian blinds and later helped his wife’s relatives in lard oil manufacture. During 1858, he was elected to represent the 9th Ward on Cincinnati City Council for a term ending in 1860.
By 1873 he joined the Cincinnati Police Department. Partisan hiring, promotions, demotions, and terminations were the norm. He survived a couple political changes in City Hall, but when Mayor Jacob, a Republican, took office, he dismissed Patrolman Schaefer, a Democrat, about January 1879. Based on Patrolman Schaefer’s reputation as a “good officer and a man of temperate habits,” the Mayor reinstated him in about January 1881.
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