Biographical Sketch of Otto Rohlfing, Jefferson County, Missouri

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

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Otto Rohlfing, dealer in fresh and salt meats, game and poultry, 
De Soto, was born in St. Charles, Mo., April 6, 1860.  He was one of
ten children born to Henry and Catherine (Young) Rohlfing, viz.:
Edward, painter in St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad shops
at De Soto; Otto Henry, locomotive engineer on the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railroad, between De Soto and Piedmont; Adolph,
Louis, George, Lizzie and Minnie.  Henry Rohlfing, father of our sub-
ject, came to America from Germany when twenty-five years of age, and
first settled in St. Charles.  He married in Jefferson County, and 
then lived in St. Charles, and returned to De Soto, Jefferson County,
Mo., four years later, where he worked at the shoemaker's trade until
his death, on August 4, 1879, aged about forty-seven years.  His wife, 
also a native of Germany, was a daughter of Conrad Young, of Jefferson
County, and died nine months before her husband.  Otto Rohlfing came
to De Soto with his parents in 1864, where he received his education.
When but twelve years of age he commenced work in a butcher shop,
working for Mathieu & Racine nine years.  May 14, 1887, Mr. Rohlfing
opened a butcher shop on his own account, which business he has since
successfully conducted, and carries a first class supply of meats of
all kinds.  He is one of the industrious and enterprising young men 
of De Soto, and is well liked.  In politics he is a Democrat.

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