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Oelschlager Family
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William Oelschlager was born in German, but by the early 1860s was living in Canada. He was a Justice of the Peace as well as a proprietor of a tobacco factory in Berlin, Ont. Later he was manager of the Economical Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Berlin. From 1879 until his death in 1893, he served as the town treasurer. In 1881, he escorted four invited German delegates to Manitoba to study its potential for agricultural settlement, filing a report to John H. Pope, the Canadian Minister of Agriculture.