CHARLES OESTERLEY. Charles Oesterlcy, who since 1892 has conducted a butcher business in Upper Sandusky, is a native of Germany, born March 12, 1857, and is a son of Andrew and May (Berkly) Oesterley. The father was a butcher by trade and conducted a store in his native country for some time. He was born in 1827 and in 1863 came to Ohio, where he died in 1892. His wife has also passed away, her death having occurred January 26, 1890, when she was sixty-three years two months and fif teen days of age. Charles Oesterley acquired a limited education in the pub lic schools of Upper Sandusky, which he attended until he was fourteen years of age, but his educational advantages were extremely limited and have been supplemented in later life by constant reading, experience and observation. For two years after laying aside his books he worked in a brick yard in Upper Sandusky but afterward learned the butcher business, at which he worked in the employ of others until 1892, when he began bis independent career. He owns a first- class, modern butcher shop, equipped with machinery and fixtures valued at fifteen hundred dollars, and in recognition of his straightforward business methods and high quality of the goods which he handles has been accorded a liberal and constantly increasing patronage. He owns in addition eighteen acres of land and a comfortable and commodious residence on North Third street. On the 15th of May, 1892, Mr. Oesterley married, in Upper Sandusky, Miss Katie Matz, a daughter of George and Catherine Matz, the former of whom followed the occupation of carpet weaving. Mr. Matz was born in 1837 and died in 1907, while his wife was born in 1839 and died in 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Oesterley became the parents of a daughter, Emma, who married Irving Mankle, a jeweler of Upper Sandusky.Mr. Oesterley is a devout adherent of the German Lutheran church and politically gives his allegiance to the democratic party. He is interested in the progress and welfare of the community in which he has resided for so many years and as a member of the town council did his best to promote all meas ures of reform and advancement. Although born in Germany and still loyal to the memory of his fatherland, Mr. Oesterley 's enterprising and progressive spirit has made him a typical American in every sense of the word. By constant exertion, guided by good judgment, he has raised himself to the promi nent position he now holds in mercantile circles, having the friendship of many and the respect of all who know him.