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Mayor of Fort Wayne
On the record
Stepped in on Zollinger's death, then won the office outright.
Scherer came to the chair by appointment: on Zollinger's death the council named him to serve until 3 May 1894, and two years later he won the office outright, holding it for two terms, to 9 May 1901. His annual messages for fiscal 1896 and 1897 survive — the city's own account of itself in those years, digitized at the Internet Archive. Under his administration the contract was let, in 1897, for the fifth Allen County Courthouse, the building that still anchors downtown; he had earlier been deputized, as a citizen, during the street railway strike of June 1893.
Find them on this page
- § 04 — the mayoral roster
Roster cross-checked between the City of Fort Wayne’s official mayors page and the full dated list — sources printed under the roster in § 04. Further sources: Messages and Reports of the Mayor of Fort Wayne, fiscal 1896 and 1897 (Internet Archive); Peggy Seigel, ‘A Proud Heritage’ (2002).