GEORGE J. AND ANN FESSLER FAMILY

Christian Fessler came to this country from Germany in 1868 at the age of 25.
Caroline Schmale was born in this country in Cook County, Illinois in 1849.
Christian Fessler and Caroline Schmale were married in DuPage County, on January 12, 1874.

Purchased from the government forty acres of land on Mack Road in Winfield, Illinois.

Purchased another forty acres of land from the government five years later; had a total of eighty acres, of farm land, and forest land on Mack Road which is now the DuPage County Forest Preserve. 

The son of Christian and Caroline Fessler, George Fessler was born on this farm (Mack Road) on September 4, 1879 and his future wife Anna Wiesbrock was born November 6, 1877 on a farm which is now Warrenville and Wheaton High School, Wheaton, Illinois -

They were married at SS Peter and Paul Church in Naperville, on February 3, 1903. They lived and farmed north of Naperville, which is now the subdivision of Cress Creek.