William Oesterling and Emma L. Forcht

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Husband William Oesterling ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Jan 1867 - Brady's Bend, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: Leonard Oesterling, Sr. (1831-Aft 1909) 3 4
         Mother: Margaret Flohr (Abt 1834-Aft 1909) 3

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Wife Emma L. Forcht ²

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         Father: Henry Forcht (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 F Florence Oesterling ²

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2 F Ethel Oesterling ²

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3 F Bertha Oesterling ²

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General Notes: Husband - William Oesterling

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He was three years old when his father settled on the farm at Carbon Center, Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he still resides, and there the child grew to youth and manhood. When he was twenty-one years old he began work in the oil fields as a driller and as such was employed in Armstrong, Butler and Allegheny Counties. For about ten years he was in partnership with his brother, in oil contracting, and long continued his interest in the oil business. In 1894 he purchased a farm from his father and moved on the place in the fall of 1895. In 1898 he erected a large frame residence, selling the one he had built in 1895, to the B. R. & P. Railroad. There was another house standing on the farm, which he rented out.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 845.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 957.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 844.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 915.