Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Shryer, Oscar W. 1847 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   OSCAR W. SHRYER. a native of the county of which he is yet a resident, and a
son of Marcus H. and Mary A. (Eveleigh) Shryer, appropriate mention of whom is
made elsewhere herein, was born April 15, 1847. His early education was obtained
in the best schools of Greene County, but subsequently, beginning in 1863, he
attended Hanover College for three years. In 1868, he entered the Law Department
of the State University at Bloomington, graduating with the degree of L.L. B. in
1869. For about two years after this, Mr. Shryer was associated in the practice
of his profession with Col. Aden G. Cavins, at Bloomfield, but on the expiration
of this time he took a trip to the Pacific Coast, and for a time was employed in
the capacity of reporter at Stockton on the Independent, subsequently editing
the Evening Herald, both daily journals. In 1873, he returned to Bloomfield,
Ind., and immediately began serving as cashier of the Bloomfield Bank. In 1876,
he began the publication of the Bloomfield News, which he continued two years,
but in 1878, became an equal owner of the re-organized Bloomfield Bank, and has
ever since been engaged in banking with marked success. Arabelle M. Cressy
became his wife on the 28th of October, 1873, and their union has been blessed
with two children—Frank W., born February 19, 1877, and George C, born March 26,
1880. The parents are members of: the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Shryer
is a member of the Blue Lodge in Masonry, in which order he has served as W. M.
several times. and has also represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. He is a
Republican in politics, and is connected with all public improvements of the day.

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Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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