Oscar Ernst was born in Oshkosh in 1857, a son of Conrad Ernst, a German immigrant, who had established a Butcher shop on Ferry Street (Main Street) in Oshkosh by 1850. Oscar began working in his father’s Butcher shop prior to 1876. He took over the business when his father went into semi-retirement in 1895. He married Mollie C. Anger on March 30, 1902. He was retired by 1914 and died March 22, 1934.
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