"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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DR. CHARLES A. KESSINGER was born February 8, 1853, in Athens County, Ohio.
He is the eldest child, and second son of Joseph L. and Mary (Jewett)
Kessinger, natives of Ohio, who were married in their native place. The
father was elected Sheriff of the county in 1852, and served for four years.
In 1868, he was appointed Internal Revenue Collector, which office he filled
for ten years. He served all through the war, and was commissioned Captain
of the Fortieth Ohio for meritorious conduct. Charles A. Kessinger was
reared in Athens County, where he received a good collegiate education in
the Ohio University. In 1873, he began reading medicine with Dr. A. B.
Frame, of Athens, and continued for three years, during which time he
graduated at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in the spring of 1876.
April 8, 1876, he was appointed Superintendent of the Ohio Penitentiary
Hospital, and served five years. In March, 1883, he came to Martinsville
and entered the regular practice, and is at present so engaged. On
September 19, 1883, he was married here to Julia D. Blackstone, daughter of
Dr. D. B. Blackstone, Mr. Kessinger is a member of the A. F. & A. M.,
Parmacetia Lodge, Athens, Ohio. Politically he is a Republican. He is
eminent as a practitioner and respected as a citizen.
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