Geneve L. A. Shaffer

Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer (July 20, 1888 – December 13, 1976) was an American realtor, lecturer and writer.

Her father was William Chase Shaffer, an associate of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and inventor of the sprinkler system, the automatic burglar alarm and the chemical fire extinguisher.

[4] At the beginning of the 1900s, Geneve Shaffer was living with her mother and brother at 302 Holyoke Street, San Francisco.

For this ascension, the Smithsonian Institution regards Shaffer as the first woman glider pilot in the United States.

She also worked with Cleve in his Shaffer Aero Manufacturing Co., serving as secretary and chief rigger.

[2] Shaffer lectured in India, Australia, in the northern part of Africa and in many European countries.

[2] In 1934, Mary Margaret McBride, NEA Service Staff Correspondent, called her "record-breaking California's outstanding woman realtor" in occasion of Shaffer visit to the East for a 10 million dollar construction deal.

Geneve Shaffer, San Francisco Call , 1909
Geneve Shaffer, 1922