Fluent in German, Shaffer served with the US Army as a translator during World War II.
He then taught economics at Concord College in Athens, West Virginia, for a year and a half.
Along with 28 other professors, Shaffer left the school as he felt he could no longer honorably be associated with the university.
He also wrote countless scholarly articles, and a popular piece on U.S. History titled "The U.S. Conquers the West."
[2] Harry Shaffer had four children, two stepchildren (with Betty R. Rosenzweig, married in 1987), and seven grandchildren at the time of his death at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.