History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              BIOGRAPHY. 935
quent promotions, and he continued his services with this institution fifteen years, acquiring valuable experience and a thorough and prac¬ tical knowledge of the banking business, fitting him for his life work. In 1886 Mr. Eilers went to Central City, Nebraska, and established the Farmers' State Bank, of which, he became cashier, holding that office six years. Returning to Oshkosh in 1892, he with others organ¬ ized the South Side Exchange Bank, with a capital of $25,000, Mr. Franklin Leach becoming its president, Mr. Joseph Koeckner vice- president, and he being elected cashier. There have been various changes of officers in this institution since it was founded sixteen years ago, but through all the changes Air. Eilers has been continued in the office to which he was at first elected and is regarded as a reliable and successful banker, sound in judgment, conservative in methods and high-minded and honorable in all things. Mr. Eilers, while de¬ voting his chief attention to the duties of his responsible office, takes a commendable interest in civic affairs and is in hearty sympathy with whatever tends to the material and moral betterment of the city and community. He is a man of pleasing personality, courteous in manner, sociable, firm in principle, yet reasonable and modest withal; in short, a high-minded Christian gentleman. In religious faith he is affiliated with the German Lutheran church.
In 1884 Mr. Eilers married Aliss Anna Anderson, a woman of fine social standing, whose native abilities and attainments make her a most worthy helpmate and campanion for her worthy husband. They have two children, named respectively Frederick and Richard.
Frederick Elwers, a well known druggist of Neenah, Wiscon¬ sin, located at 105 West AVisconsin avenue, is a native of Mecklen¬ burg, Germany, where his parents, Ernest and Mary (Miller) Elwers, were likewise born.
Mr. Elwers, our subject, was born April 13, 1847, and came to the ¦ United States with his parents in 1852. The father was a shoemaker by trade and followed that calling both in Germany and after coming to this country, retiring from the business, which he carried on in Neenah for many years, some time before his death, which occurred at Neenah in 1900 at the age of seventy-eight. Mrs. Elwers, his wife, survived him for six years. They were both members of the Lutheran church and are buried together at Neenah. Of their eight children ^Ye survive.   Mr. Elwers was a Democrat in politics.
After completing his education in the public schools of Neenah Frederick entered the employ of Kimberly & Henry, druggists of Neenah, as an apprentice, and is now the proprietor of the establish¬ ment he first entered.   Upon the dissolution of the firm of Kimberly