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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">James McMillan Shafter</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:James_M._Shafter_(Vermont,_Wisconsin,_California_politician).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/James_M._Shafter_%28Vermont%2C_Wisconsin%2C_California_politician%29.jpg/220px-James_M._Shafter_%28Vermont%2C_Wisconsin%2C_California_politician%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/James_M._Shafter_%28Vermont%2C_Wisconsin%2C_California_politician%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="268" data-file-height="406" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">From <i>San Francisco Examiner</i> (August 30, 1892)</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">California Superior Court Judge for <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_County_Superior_Court" title="San Francisco County Superior Court">San Francisco County</a></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 1889 – January 1, 1891</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Appointed by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Waterman_(governor)" title="Robert Waterman (governor)">Robert Waterman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_F._Sullivan" title="Jeremiah F. Sullivan">Jeremiah F. Sullivan</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/California_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="California Senate">California Senate</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_County,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco County, California">San Francisco</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 1861 – January 1865</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Archibald C. Peachy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">A. L. Tubbs</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">5th <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly">Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 14, 1852 – January 3, 1853</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_W._Horn" title="Frederick W. Horn">Frederick W. Horn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Palmer" title="Henry L. Palmer">Henry L. Palmer</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">13th <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Vermont" title="Secretary of State of Vermont">Secretary of State of Vermont</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />November 1842 – July 1849</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alvah_Sabin" title="Alvah Sabin">Alvah Sabin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Farrand_F._Merrill" title="Farrand F. Merrill">Farrand F. Merrill</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Wisconsin State Assembly">Wisconsin State Assembly</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/Sheboygan_County,_Wisconsin" title="Sheboygan County, Wisconsin">Sheboygan</a> 1st district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 5, 1852 – January 3, 1853</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Albert D. La Due</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Taylor_(Wisconsin_judge)" title="David Taylor (Wisconsin judge)">David Taylor</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Vermont_House_of_Representatives" title="Vermont House of Representatives">Vermont House of Representatives</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/Townsend,_Vermont" class="mw-redirect" title="Townsend, Vermont">Townsend</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />October 1, 1841 – October 1, 1843</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Samuel F. Thompson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Nathan Fisher</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1816-05-27</span>)</span>May 27, 1816<br /><a href="/wiki/Athens,_Vermont" title="Athens, Vermont">Athens, Vermont</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 29, 1892<span style="display:none">(1892-08-29)</span> (aged 76)<br /><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Diabetes" title="Diabetes">Diabetes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/National_Union_Party_(United_States)" title="National Union Party (United States)">Natl. Union</a> (1860s)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a> (before 1854)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Julia Granville Hubbard</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1845; died 1871)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Payne Jewett Shafter</li><li><sup>(b. 1846; died 1934)</sup></li><li>James Chester Shafter</li><li><sup>(b. 1851; died 1929)</sup></li><li>Chester Hubbard Shafter</li><li><sup>(b. 1854; died 1863)</sup></li><li>Julia Ruth (Hamiltony)</li><li><sup>(b. 1859; died 1936)</sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_L._Shafter" title="Oscar L. Shafter">Oscar L. Shafter</a> (brother)</li><li><a href="/wiki/William_Rufus_Shafter" title="William Rufus Shafter">William Rufus Shafter</a> (nephew)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University">Wesleyan University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Lawyer</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James McMillan Shafter</b> (May 27, 1816 – August 29, 1892) was an <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a> lawyer, politician, and pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> and <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. He was the 13th <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Vermont" title="Secretary of State of Vermont">Secretary of State of Vermont</a> and the 5th <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly">speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly</a> (1852). Later in life he was a <a href="/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate">California state senator</a> and <a href="/wiki/California_superior_courts" title="California superior courts">superior court judge</a>. Near the time of his death, his large dairy ranch in <a href="/wiki/Marin_County,_California" title="Marin County, California">Marin County, California</a>, was described as one of the largest ranches in the world—over 23,000 acres.<sup id="cite_ref-bench_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bench-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His name was abbreviated in different ways over the course of his life, including <span class="nowrap"><b>J. McM. Shafter</b></span>, <span class="nowrap"><b>Jas. M'm. Shafter</b></span>, and other permutations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_McMillan_Shafter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James McMillan Shafter was the fourth of six children born to William Rufus Shafter and his wife Mary (<i><span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span></i> Lovell). His older brother is <a href="/wiki/Oscar_L._Shafter" title="Oscar L. Shafter">Oscar L. Shafter</a>. Through another brother, Hugh, he was an uncle of U.S. Army major general <a href="/wiki/William_Rufus_Shafter" title="William Rufus Shafter">William Rufus Shafter</a>, who was a recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Medal_of_Honor" title="Medal of Honor">Medal of Honor</a> for actions in the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Shafters were descended from James Shafter, an orphan who may have been born in England or shortly after his parents emigrated to the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> in the early 18th century. Its unknown if his parents' name was actually "Shafter" or if the orphan James just took that name after their death.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Born in <a href="/wiki/Athens,_Vermont" title="Athens, Vermont">Athens, Vermont</a> in 1816, Shafter attended public schools and then graduated from <a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University">Wesleyan University</a> ni 1837. Two years later, he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a> and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1840.<sup id="cite_ref-bench_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bench-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_McMillan_Shafter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He went to work as a lawyer in <a href="/wiki/Townsend,_Vermont" class="mw-redirect" title="Townsend, Vermont">Townsend, Vermont</a>, where he remained for three years before moving to <a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Vermont" title="Burlington, Vermont">Burlington, Vermont</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bench_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bench-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While living in Townsend, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Vermont_House_of_Representatives" title="Vermont House of Representatives">Vermont House of Representatives</a> in 1841, and he was then elected <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Vermont" title="Secretary of State of Vermont">Secretary of State of Vermont</a>, serving from 1842 until resigning in the summer of 1849, in order to seek out new opportunities in the west.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-regent_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-regent-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1850, he first moved to <a href="/wiki/Sheboygan,_Wisconsin" title="Sheboygan, Wisconsin">Sheboygan, Wisconsin</a>, and was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Wisconsin State Assembly">Wisconsin State Assembly</a> in 1851. During the <a href="/wiki/5th_Wisconsin_Legislature" title="5th Wisconsin Legislature">1852 legislative session</a>, Shafter served as <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly">speaker of the Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the fall of 1852, he was the Whig Party nominee for <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district">Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district</a>, but he lost that election to Democrat <a href="/wiki/John_B._Macy" title="John B. Macy">John B. Macy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1855, he then moved to <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>, where he practiced law with his brother, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_L._Shafter" title="Oscar L. Shafter">Oscar L. Shafter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1857, a complex real estate litigation resulted in the Shafter firm winning a victory for their client of 75,000 acres of farm land at <a href="/wiki/Point_Reyes,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Point Reyes, California">Point Reyes</a> in Marin County.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The client sold the property to the Shafters.<sup id="cite_ref-reyes_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reyes-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They leased it to dairy farmers who provided milk and butter to an ever-growing San Francisco and prospered.<sup id="cite_ref-cheese_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cheese-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Shafter families owned most of Point Reyes from 1857 to 1919, when the land was sold in parcels.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1862, Shafter served in the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Senate" title="California State Senate">California State Senate</a> and was its <a href="/wiki/President_Pro_Tempore_of_the_California_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate">President pro tempore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shafter also served in the <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(California)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional Convention (California)">California Constitution Convention</a> of 1878 and was on the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Board_of_Regents" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California Board of Regents">University of California Board of Regents</a> <i>ex officio</i> as President of the California State Agricultural Association. In November 1885, he was appointed one of the original trustees of <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Leland Stanford Junior University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-obit_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1888, Shafter survived a gunshot at close range.<sup id="cite_ref-shot_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shot-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son, Dr. James Shafter, had sued for a divorce and the wife's brother, angry at the proceedings, confronted the elder Shafter in the San Francisco City Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brother fired four times at point blank range but missed his mark.<sup id="cite_ref-shot_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shot-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1889, Governor <a href="/wiki/Robert_Waterman_(governor)" title="Robert Waterman (governor)">Robert Waterman</a> appointed Shafter as judge of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_County_Superior_Court" title="San Francisco County Superior Court">San Francisco County Superior Court</a> to fill the vacancy from the resignation of <a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_F._Sullivan" title="Jeremiah F. Sullivan">Jeremiah F. Sullivan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Near the time of his death, his large <a href="/wiki/California_dairy_industry" title="California dairy industry">dairy ranch</a> in <a href="/wiki/Marin_County,_California" title="Marin County, California">Marin County, California</a>, was described as one of the largest ranches in the world—over 23,000 acres.<sup id="cite_ref-bench_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bench-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_McMillan_Shafter&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1845, James McMillan Shafter married Julia Granville Hubbard (September 11, 1821 – February 11, 1871) in <a href="/wiki/Montpelier,_Vermont" title="Montpelier, Vermont">Montpelier, Vermont</a>, who had studied at <a href="/wiki/Emma_Willard_School" title="Emma Willard School">Troy Female Seminary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had at least four children: Payne Jewett Shafter,<sup id="cite_ref-The_marriage_ceremony_of_Payne_J._Shafter_and_Miss_Nellie_Jackson_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_marriage_ceremony_of_Payne_J._Shafter_and_Miss_Nellie_Jackson-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James Chester Shafter, Chester Hubbard Shafter, and Julia Ruth Shafter.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time of his death, in 1892, Shafter left an estate worth about $1,000,000 (about $33,000,000 adjusted for inflation to 2023). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_McMillan_Shafter&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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No. 8. California Digital Newspaper Collection. 19 February 1920. p. 7<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 20,</span> 2017</span>. <q>His two sons, Dr. J. C. Shafter, of San Francisco, and Payne J. Shafter, of Olema, and his daughter, Mrs. A. F. 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