Dr. Charles A. Kessinger

    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.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.