Biographical Sketch of Oscar Ehlers, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Oscar Ehlers, sheriff of Franklin County, Mo., was born in that county
and State, May 12, 1860, the son of William Ehlers, a farmer of Lyon
Township, of this county.  The father was a native of Germany, and 
emigrated to America about 1845.  Our subject attained his majority on
the farm, received the rudiments of an education in the common schools
and finished at Johnson's Commercial College, at St. Louis, Mo.  He 
left home in 1878 and located in New Haven, where he engaged in mer-
chandising for about three years.  He located in Union, in 1881, and
took a position as deputy collector under R. M. Armstrong, which posi-
tion he held for two years, after which he resumed merchandising at
Champion City, Mo.  In November, 1886, he was elected as sheriff on 
the Democratic ticket, receiving a majority of 279 votes, though the
county is largely Republican.  He is now filling the office with abil-
ity and to the satisfaction of all concerned.

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