Age: 43
Served: 13 years
1899 to May 3, 1912
George Kloster emigrated from Germany during 1888 and settled in Wyoming, Ohio. Ten years later, on January 24, 1898, he was the victim of a burglary where $12 was taken from the room where he boarded. Within a year of the burglary, he joined the Wyoming Police Force. By 1906, he was elected to the position of Village Marshal. Also, during that year, he married a widow, Elizabeth Reisinger, who had two children by a previous marriage.
On May 2, 1912, Wyoming citizen Henry Van Rohr reported to Marshal Kloster that a suspicious man was loitering in a field on Cooper Avenue. Eleven months prior, a female had been attacked there in a much publicized case.
At 10:45 p.m., Marshal Kloster responded to the field and approached the suspicious man. When he was within a few feet, the man pulled a revolver and shot Marshal Kloster from close range in his right side. The man ran away and Marshal Kloster emptied his own revolver at him as he disappeared in the darkness. Marshal Kloster was certain that one or more of his shots took effect.
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