Oemler, Arminius, 1827-1897.

Dr. Arminius Oemler (1827-1897) was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was the son of Augustus Gottleib and Mary Ann Shad Oemler. He was a physician, agriculturist, as well as a promoter of the oyster industry in Georgia. He was educated in Savannah schools and the Dresden Technische Bildungsanstalt in Germany. He studied medicine in the office of Dr. Stephen N. Harris of Savannah and at New York University. He practiced medicine for a short time, but he found it a strain on his health and turned to farming instead. Oemler served in the Confederate States Army, first as Captain of the 2nd Company of DeKalk Riflemen and then with the engineering corps. In 1883, he published his truck Farming at the South. With his son, Augustus (1867-1927), he the first oyster packing plant in the South on Wilmington Island in Chatham County, Georgia. They also established an oyster packing plant on St. Catherine's Island, Georgia. In 1889, Oemler published a paper, The Life History, Propagation and Protection of the American Oyster. He married Elizabeth P. Heyward of South Carolina. Marie Conway Oemler (1879-1932) was a well-known novelist and the wife of John Norton Oemler, the grandson of Dr. Arminius Oemler.