Biographical Sketch of Michael Ostertag, Jefferson County, Missouri

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

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Michael Ostertag is a native of Grosselfingen, Prussia, and was born in
1831.  He is a son of Conrad and Ann Mary (Ostertag) Ostertag, the for-
mer of whom, a farmer by occupation, was born in 1776 and died in 1834;
the latter was born in 1777 and died in 1832.  Of the seventeen child-
ren born to them Michael is the youngest and the only survivor.  His
parents both dying when he was very young, he lived with an uncle a few
years, and then was taken to Hechingen, where he resided until his 
fifteenth year with his aunt, Judith Slehle; he afterward clerked in a
store in Stuttgart, and in 1852 left his native country and immigrated
to America, first locating in St. Louis, where he engaged in merchandi-
sing.  In 1871 he moved to Frumet Mines, Jefferson County, where he
kept a boarding house until 1872, when he came to De Soto and acted as
proprietor of the Jefferson House until 1881; he then sold out and his
wife established the present business here, dealing in dry goods, not-
ions and jewelry.  In November, 1853, he married Miss Chresentia Meyer,
who was born in Prussia in 1835.  They became the parents of fourteen
children, eight of whom died in infancy, and but five of whom are still
living: Magdelena (wife of Philip Schaub), Henry (a twin to Magdelena
died October 4, 1878, and was buried on his twenty third birthday),
Louisa, Katie, Christian Michael (died June 23, 1871, aged six years),
Emily and Clara.  Mr. Ostertag is one of the highly esteemed citizens 
of De Soto.  He is a Republican in politics and a member of the D.O.H.
The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church.

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