Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-06-18
Lcnhart Otha Shraaer, Deceased.

gret for the necessity, we prepare briei
obituary notice Of LENHARr OTHo SHRA-
DER, Esq, who departed this life June sth,
A. d., 1862, aged 81 years and 4 months
On Tuesday large concourse of relatives
ana friends followed the remains to theiI
last resting place in the old cemetery in Ian
caster, the funeral ceremonies being con
Quoted by the resident clergy, aided BY the
oldest citizens of the town.
Deceased was born, Feb, 18th, 1902, il
Somerset, Pa, and was the son Of Hon
Ohio Shrader, native Of Saxony, Ger
many, who emigrated with his family tc
this country in theyear 1897 The father
Icing lawyer Of some eminence in bis
adopted State, was appointed by President
Jefferson in 1906, chief Justice of the Ter
ritory of Louisiana, to preside in he Mis-
souri, Territorial District, to which latter
country the family removed thereafter
Upon the death Of BIS father, in 1871,
Lenhart Ohio remained at Kaskaskia in
illinois until the year Of the State organi-
cation VIXEN he removed to Vandalia, the
capitol of Illinois. Here he married and
remained until the summer of 1880, when
he removed with his family to the Territ-
ory,of Wisconsin, having been detained in
Illinois, some years later than he designed
to close his connection as the Ward and
Protagee Of Judge Nathaniel Pope.
AT Kaskaskia, Lenhart Ohio commenc-
ed the printing business about the year
1917, in the Western Ietezligcncer office,
carried on by Cook and Blackwell. printed
as we have heard him say, on a ramage
press manufactured at the place, and forms
beat with buckskin balls filled with wool,
a method of hiking long since superseded
by elastic rollers. He served his time,
and in 1924 became the proprietor of the
Illinois Reporter, Kaskaskia, and for one
year he edited, selected copy, set the type,
read proof, beat, pressed and delivered the
Reporter to subscribers without any help.
The Reporter was four column weekly,
and then ranked among the first papers Of
the State, there being but two others, they
published but enthusiastically. In 1882
be was in the Black Hawk war which he
served through, receiving his discharge.
His design, on coming to Wisconsin, was
to follow mining, but shortly thereafter in
1912 he was appointed by the Hon. Chas
Dunn, then presiding in the southwestern
District Of Wisconsin, Clerk of the Circuit
Court Of Grant county, which Office he
held by appointment and election till
1850, also holding BY election the Office Of
Clerk of the Board from As to 40. In
the year AZ he also started the Grant
County Herald, with which he was connec-
ted few months.
In the year 81, being out of business,
he once more resumed his old occupation
of editor and printer. and took working
interest in the Grant County Herald, in
company with the writer hereof, and re-
manned Herewith connected for near two
years. Since that time to the date of his
death, Mr.. Shrader gave but little atten-
ton to public business, deyoting mort Of
his time to his farm. For the past year
or two he has however been an acting jas
tice ofthe Peace, clerk Of the corporation,
&C., but with less respect to profits than to
active business to which he had been SO
long accustomed.
A respected wife and large family Of
sons and daughters, mostly all grown men
and women, remain to mourn his depart
ure and perpetuate his name and good
qualities.
1t common with the settlers of Lanca.-
ter and tho county, we knew Mr.. Shrader,
and knew him we'll for half life allotment
of years, and can speak for all that he pos
sessed remarkable firmness, clearness Of
perception and uprightness Of intent. His
opinions were as fixed as the rocks, and
which nothing could oyerturn but the Sc
velest logic; yet he was reasonable man
and possessed an unbiased Judgment, caus-
ing his opinions Of things to be about rs
much respected as statute laws.
BY short but eventGr+>6alsiness con-
ncction with Mr. Shrader in the printing,
at time when poverty and debt placed US
in his hands, we learned to best know and
most admire the man, as well as to over
look bis only fault. lie more than once
heard expressed in private our acknowledge
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