Background
Shafer, Morris Luther was born on August 8, 1903 in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Elmer George Ellsworth and Mary Ann (McCarter) Shafer.
Shafer, Morris Luther was born on August 8, 1903 in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Elmer George Ellsworth and Mary Ann (McCarter) Shafer.
Student Temple University, 1921-1922. Bachelor of Philosophy with honors, Muhlenberg College, 1925, Doctor of Laws, 1958. Master of Arts, Lafayette College, 1929.
Student of University Pennsylvania, 1933, Doctor of Laws, 1947.
Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1934. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1959.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) College, 1960.
Administrative and teaching staff, division general education New York University, 1934-1943, administrative assistant to dean, 1939-1943. Lecturer Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, 1946. Adjunct staff economics Rutgers University, 1947-1950.
Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1947.
Practiced Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 1947-1954, 56-68. Member firm Snyder, Wert, Wilcox, Shafer & Doll, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1954-1956.
Solicitor to register of wills, political subdivisions, Lehigh County. Dean, professional law Dickinson School Law, 1956-1965.
Assistant director commission on continuing legal education Pennsylvania Bar, 1965-1966.
Adviser Joint-State Government Commission, 1956.
Member firm Snyder, Wert, Wilcox, Shafer & Doll, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1954-1956. Member American, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County bar associations, American Judicature Society.
Married Mary Abigail Walker, June 24, 1939.