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. 894.
 
JOHN DAVID EDLER

     is a well-to-do wool grower of Klamath county, Oregon, residing principally
in Lakeview. He was born May 27, 1865, in Perry county, Pennsylvania, the son of
John and Doratha (Myers) Edler. He has one brother, Jacob, and one sister, Emma
C. Edler, both residing in Crawford county, Kansas.
     As a boy Mr. Edler removed with his parents to Illinois, and from that
state the family emigrated to Crawford county, Kansas, where the father took a
homestead, upon which he lived until his death, and upon which the mother is
still making her home. In June, of the year 1885, Mr. Edler removed to Alturas,
Modoc county, California, and during the following autumn came to Lake county,
Oregon. He began life here as a sheepherder, but soon acquired capital
sufficient to enable him to purchase a small flock of sheep of his own. With
that start he has continued during subsequent years to add to his flock until
his sheep now number several thousand. He also owns eighteen hundred acres of
land twelve miles east of Bonanza, Klamath county, Oregon, the tract being known
far and wide as the "Keno Springs ranch."
     Mr. Edler is a member of the United Workmen lodge of Lakeview.
     He is a man of great industry, as may be judged by the foregoing facts
relating to his life, and is generally looked upon as one of the leading
citizens of southern Oregon.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.