William Kesselman and Magdeline Moser

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Husband William Kesselman ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Oct 1832 - Hamburg, Germany 1
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           Died: 1914 or 1916 2 3
         Buried:  - Butler, Butler Co, PA

       Marriage: 1860 4

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Wife Magdeline Moser ⁴

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            AKA: Margaret Moser,3 Margaret Mosher 2
           Born:  - Germany
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           Died: 1899 or 1902 2 3 4
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Children

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1 M Edward H. Kesselman ^{2 4}

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2 M William H. Kesselman ^{2 4}

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3 M Lewis P. Kesselman ^{2 4}

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4 F Minta Kesselman ^{2 5}

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           Born: 6 Nov 1881 - Pennsylvania 5
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         Spouse: Benjamin Harrison Jack (1861-      ) 5
           Marr: 6 Nov 1919 5

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5 M Floyd Victor Kesselman ^{2 3}

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           Born: 22 Apr 1887 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 3
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         Spouse: Georgia M. Christie (      -      ) 6 7 8
           Marr: 1914 8

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General Notes: Husband - William Kesselman

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From Germany, he came, a young man of twenty-two years, to America. He located at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and worked there as a machinist from 1856 until 1870. He then moved to Parker's Landing, where he started a shop of his own, which he conducted until 1875, when he removed to Saint Joe, Butler County, working there, with his own shop, until 1883. In the latter year he established his business in Butler and operated it as the Kesselman Machine Shop until about 1887, when C. J. Brandberg became associated with him and the firm assumed the style of Kesselman & Company. In addition to the large amount of work done in the Butler establishment, the firm found it advantageous to also carry on a machine shop at Parkersburg, West Virginia. [TCHBC, 659]

He was born in Germany and at the age of seventeen years emigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. He founded the Kesselman Company in 1872 in Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania. The plant was moved to Butler in 1882, where it was then in continual operation, being the oldest oil tool manufacturing company in the United States.

He and his wife came early to the United States, where he established a manufacturing concern in western Pennsylvania, the product being oil well tools, and the output was considered of the highest standard. Mr. Kesselman, senior, was associated with Mr. Brandberg in this business, which was later conducted by the heirs of these two men under the name of Kesselman & Company. The concern had a branch plant at Parkersburg, West Virginia, the local plant occupying about 10,000 square feet of space, while the other plant was even larger.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 659.

2 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 1184.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 270.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 660.

5 Jeff McBride, Thomas Armstrong in Path Valley (Laurel, Md: Web-published, 2012).

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 823.

7 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 1185.

8 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 271.