Imperial County, CA Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007.

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ADOLPH KESSLING
 
                   After a long and varied career, during which he has traveled 
extensively and devoted his energies to numerous lines of endeavor, Adolph 
Kessling is now one of the leading business men of Calexico, where his 
progressive and enterprising methods have won success. Mr. Kessling is a native 
of Germany and was born January 4, 1856. He acquired his education in the 
schools of his native land and at the age of twenty he went to Russia, where he 
spent five years. In December, 1881, he came to America. Early in life he 
learned the meat business and after his arrival in this country he worked in the 
coal mines for a time. He then followed mining and prospected in Nevada, 
California, Arizona, and Mexico. In Kansas City he  worked in the packing houses 
and also found employment on the railroads. In Southeastern Missouri he worked 
at his trade for two years and in Texas he engaged in business for himself. Mr. 
Kessling was married in Kansas City, Missouri, and removed to Texas the 
following year. He married Paulina Hausler in December, 1886. Seven children 
were born of this union, two of whom are dead. The living are Hulda, wife of 
Charles Freer, residing in Texas; Adolph, Albert, William and Edwin. The latter 
is attending school in Brenham, Texas. In March, 1905, Mr. Kessling came to 
Imperial Valley. He worked for a time and also did much prospecting in this 
locality and crossed the Colorado Desert from many points. In 1910 he engaged in 
the meat business in a small way. The business has grown and Mr. Kessling was 
obliged to change his location three times. He now has one of the most modern 
markets in the Valley and does a wholesale as well as retail business. Mr. 
Kessling has forty acres of highly cultivated land in the Valley. Fraternally he 
is a member of the K. of P. of Calexico.
 
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California," Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 
1918, pp. 369-370.