CHARLES A. FESSLER, of Newberry Township, Miami County, Ohio, with his wife, is the owner of 100 acres of land located two and one- half miles north of Covington, on the northeast corner of the intersection of the Covington and Stillwater Pikes. He was born on a farm in Shelby County, Ohio, July 26, 1868, and is a son of John Martin and Catherine Elizabeth (Peterseim) Fessler.

John M. Fessler was born in Germany and was about eleven years of age when he accompanied his mother to the United States, his father having died previous to that time. They located on a farm in Shelby County, where the father of the subject of this record has since lived. He married Catherine Elizabeth Peterseim, who was born in Shelby County, but was reared in Newberry Township, Miami County, just north of Bloomer.

Charles A. Fessler was reared on the home farm where his parents still reside, and has always followed agricultural pursuits. After his marriage in 1895, they set up housekeeping on the farm adjoining his present place on the northeast, in Newberry Township. They rented that property until 1906, when he purchased what is known as the old Drake farm, on which he has since lived. There is a large brick house and a good set of farm buildings on the place, and he has made many other important improvements, among other things fencing the entire place. He. follows general farming and stock raising. October 6, 1895, Mr. Fessler was united in marriage with Miss Jennie A. Rhoades, a. daughter of Uriah V. and Dorothy Alain (Routson) Rhoades, and they have two, children, Treva Esther and Zelma Irene. Religiously, they are members of the Lutheran Church at Bloomer.