Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 506. FREDERIC MEDLER The subject of the following biographical mention is the youngest son of Bruno F. and Minerva J. Medler, and at present he resides with his parents, three and one-half miles northeast of Wasco, Sherman county. He is a native Oregonian, having been born in the county in which he now lives, July 25, 1883, and is, at the present writing in his twenty-second year. He has secured a good business education in the public schools of Sherman county, and assists his father and brothers in the multifarious details of farm work on so extensive a scale as they are conducted in this part of Oregon. Our subject has three brothers and four sisters living, Julius, Albert, Walter, Fannie, Mollie, Ida and May. One other sister, Henrietta, who was the wife of William Herricks, ex-county clerk and assessor of Sherman county, died in 1902 at Moro. Mr. Medler is a popular young man in the community in which he resides and numbers a host of friends. Our subject is in partnership with his brother, Julius, and they operate their father's farm, raising annually four hundred and fifty acres of grain, mostly wheat. They have the best of stock and machinery, and the farm is one of the landmarks of Sherman county, being one of the very first improved here and producing one of. the first crops of wheat grown in what is now Sherman county. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.