Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Oesterle, Carl 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Carl Oesterle, a jeweler and optician carrying on business at No. 106 North 
Chicago street, has been a resident of Joliet since 1881. A native of Germany, 
he was born in the southern part of that country in 1859 and there learned the 
trade of watchmaking. He has a brother living in Chicago who is the only other 
representative of the family in the new world. When twenty years of age Carl 
Oesterle, crossing the Atlantic to the United States, took up his abode in 
Joliet, where he arrived in January, 1881. He had become an expert watchmaker 
in his native country and here he entered the employ of Henry Young, working 
at his trade. In the fall of the same year, however, he formed a partnership 
with T. W. Martin under the firm style of Martin & Oesterle, jewelers and 
watchmakers. They located on Jefferson street, where they remained until 1885, 
when Mr. Oesterle withdrew from the firm and started in business on his own 
account. He now carries a full and complete line of watches, jewelry, diamonds 
and cut glass, having a well appointed store: its neat and tasteful 
arrangement, its reasonable prices and his courteous treatment of his 
customers all combining to secure him a liberal patronage. Mr. Oesterle is 
also watch inspector for the Michigan Central Railroad and the Chicago, Rock 
Island & Pacific Railroad, and he employs an optician, engraver and watchmaker 
to assist him in carrying on his business. Mr. Oesterle was married in Joliet 
to Miss Louisa Bez, who died in 1896, leaving four children, Albert C., 
Margaret P., Louisa L. and Clarence L., all at home. The last named is in the 
store with his father and is an engraver by trade. Mr. Oesterle is independent 
in politics. He is connected with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, 
the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the Masonic lodge. He is today the 
oldest jeweler in years of consecutive business connection at Joliet and has 
been at his present location for the past seventeen years. His standing in 
trade circles is proportionate to the length of his connection with business 
interests here, he being justly accounted one of the leading merchants of the 
city. 

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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