| Title |
Kessler, J. Millard |
| Date |
b. 1848 |
| Description |
John Millard Kessler, born in 1848 in the Northern Liberties Ward of Philadelphia, was a partner in the lithographic firm
of Breuker & Kessler. Established 1866 by George W. Breuker, Sr. and John's older brother Harry C. Kessler, the firm employed
Kessler as a clerk in 1868. By the mid 1870s he acted as a proprietor following the departure of his elder brother.
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Kessler resided with his parents at 1621 Summer Street until the mid-1880s. He resided at 619 N 18th and 1928 Wallace Street
until the mid-1890s, when he moved to the Aldine Hotel, then the Belgravia, and finally The Maidstone. By 1900 he married
Evelina M. Haehnlen(1853-1922), the daughter of Philadelphia lithographer Louis Haehnlen. From 1906 to 1911, he worked for
Otto Martin & Co., a lithographic supply company before, presumably for retirement, he relocated with his wife to Los Angeles
in the late 1910s. Evelina Kessler died in Los Angeles in 1922.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Breuker & Kessler and Hahenlen, Louis. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860, 1880, 1900 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Philadelphia City Directories 1868-1916 (intermittently) |
