Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ehrhardt, August 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

August Ehrhardt, county treasurer of Will county, in which position he is 
rendering efficient, faithful and expert service, came to the county in 1855, 
at which time he located in Crete. He was born in Saxony, Germany, April 3, 
1840, and was a youth of fourteen years when he crossed the Atlantic to the 
United States with his parents, Christoph and Sophie (Werner) Ehrhardt. The 
family located at Blue Island, Illinois, and the father followed the 
occupation of farming in order to provide for his family. He died in the year 
1876, while his wife survived until 1882. August Ehrhardt lived with his 
parents near Blue Island for some time and then came to Will county, settling 
at Monee, where he carried on general farming until 1865, save for the period 
of his service in the Civil war. He enlisted in 1862 in the Eighty-second 
Illinois infantry as a private and was a valorous soldier until the close of 
hostilities. When the country no longer needed his services he returned to 
Monee, and for fifteen years was engaged in business with August Schiffer. He 
then removed to Beecher, where he carried on general merchandising, purchasing 
the store of Mr. Matthias. He also assisted in locating the creamery at 
Beecher and still owns the business block in which it is conducted. The 
mercantile business of which he became proprietor had been established about 
ten years before. In its control he has displayed excellent business judgment 
and discernment and has made a creditable record in the conduct of the 
enterprise. He served as postmaster at Beecher under President Harrison and 
again under President McKinley, during which time there were established three 
rural routes from this office. In 1906 he was elected county treasurer of Will 
county and is now filling the position, the duties of which he discharges with 
promptness and fidelity. Mr. Ehrhardt was married in 1865, at Blue Island, 
Illinois, to Miss Louise Kline, who was born in Germany, June 14, 1843, a 
daughter of August Kline. They became the parents of two sons: Arthur, who now 
has charge of his father's store; and Carl, who is cashier of the First 
National Bank of Beecher and who was deputy probate clerk. Mr. Ehrhardt has 
always taken an active part in politics as a stalwart champion of the 
republican party and was committeeman of his town and township for twenty 
years. In all life's relations he has displayed the same fidelity to his 
country and her welfare that he showed when on southern battlefields he 
followed the old flag. Socially Mr. Ehrhardt is a member of the Masonic order 
at Peotone and he has been commander of Chicago Heights post, G. A. R. His 
religious faith is that of the Evangelical church. At all times and under all 
circumstances, whether in official service, in business life, as a member of 
the army, or as a private citizen he has displayed fidelity to the interests 
of his country and her welfare and his record has been creditable. 

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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