Son of George Bressler & Ann Eliza Dorneck
Spouse of Sarah Tonner - Married 1 May 1849 in Centre County, PA
Dr. Charles H Bressler, father of John T., was born at Mill Hall, Clinton Co., Pa., in 1821, and was graduated with the degree of M.D., at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1844. He also studied under the late Dr. Washington L. Atlee. From 1839 to 1849 he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Lancaster, and he practiced dentistry and medicine at Bellefonte until 1855, when he removed to the city of York, resuming his profession there. Having commissioned, by Gov. Curtin, as sheriff of York County, to fill a vacancy. He was a devout Methodist in religious faith, and few stood higher in the estimation of his associates in the Church.
Dr. Bressler married Sarah Ann Tonner, daughter of Rev. John N. Tonner, of Bellefonte, Center [Centre] County, a Methodist minister, who died at Canton, Ohio. There were both schoolmates of Gov. Andrew Curtin, the beloved war governor of Pennsylvania, and one of Dr. Bressler's children, by his request, was made his namesake. Dr. Charles H and Sarah Ann Bressler had children as follows: John T. is mentioned below; George B., of Lancaster, a prominent citizen and alderman there, married Ella M. Henry; Emma Barnet, Clara V. and Ella M., unmarried, live in York County; Wilbur C., a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College, married Molly Snyder [Smyser], of York, and practices there; Andrew Curtin, a traveling salesman, is a resident of York; Charles died in infancy. Mrs. Bressler died in 1868, at the age of thirty-eight.
John T. Bressler was born Feb. 25 1850, in Bellefonte, and was five years old when the family moved to York, where he received his early education. He studied under Rev. A. M. Eberly, at Cottage Hill College, where he graduated. Then he took up dentistry with his father at York, upon completing his course of study removed to Upper Allen Township, and has practiced his profession at Shepherdstown ever since. For seven years Dr. Bressler has been justice of the peace and he has served two terms as assessor of his township. In addition to being a skillful dental practitioner he has won a justifiable reputation as an investor, one of his designs being a wheel washer, a device for hubs to utilize lost motion. His covered shaft clip is now being introduced, and his latest invention is a combined roller and harrow, which is about perfected.
SOURCE: Biographical annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, Publication date: 1905.
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Spouse of Sarah Tonner - Married 1 May 1849 in Centre County, PA
Dr. Charles H Bressler, father of John T., was born at Mill Hall, Clinton Co., Pa., in 1821, and was graduated with the degree of M.D., at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1844. He also studied under the late Dr. Washington L. Atlee. From 1839 to 1849 he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Lancaster, and he practiced dentistry and medicine at Bellefonte until 1855, when he removed to the city of York, resuming his profession there. Having commissioned, by Gov. Curtin, as sheriff of York County, to fill a vacancy. He was a devout Methodist in religious faith, and few stood higher in the estimation of his associates in the Church.
Dr. Bressler married Sarah Ann Tonner, daughter of Rev. John N. Tonner, of Bellefonte, Center [Centre] County, a Methodist minister, who died at Canton, Ohio. There were both schoolmates of Gov. Andrew Curtin, the beloved war governor of Pennsylvania, and one of Dr. Bressler's children, by his request, was made his namesake. Dr. Charles H and Sarah Ann Bressler had children as follows: John T. is mentioned below; George B., of Lancaster, a prominent citizen and alderman there, married Ella M. Henry; Emma Barnet, Clara V. and Ella M., unmarried, live in York County; Wilbur C., a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College, married Molly Snyder [Smyser], of York, and practices there; Andrew Curtin, a traveling salesman, is a resident of York; Charles died in infancy. Mrs. Bressler died in 1868, at the age of thirty-eight.
John T. Bressler was born Feb. 25 1850, in Bellefonte, and was five years old when the family moved to York, where he received his early education. He studied under Rev. A. M. Eberly, at Cottage Hill College, where he graduated. Then he took up dentistry with his father at York, upon completing his course of study removed to Upper Allen Township, and has practiced his profession at Shepherdstown ever since. For seven years Dr. Bressler has been justice of the peace and he has served two terms as assessor of his township. In addition to being a skillful dental practitioner he has won a justifiable reputation as an investor, one of his designs being a wheel washer, a device for hubs to utilize lost motion. His covered shaft clip is now being introduced, and his latest invention is a combined roller and harrow, which is about perfected.
SOURCE: Biographical annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, Publication date: 1905.
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Son of George Bressler & Ann Eliza Dorneck
Spouse of Sarah Tonner - Married 1 May 1849 in Centre County, PA
Dr. Charles H Bressler, father of John T., was born at Mill Hall, Clinton Co., Pa., in 1821, and was graduated with the degree of M.D., at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1844. He also studied under the late Dr. Washington L. Atlee. From 1839 to 1849 he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Lancaster, and he practiced dentistry and medicine at Bellefonte until 1855, when he removed to the city of York, resuming his profession there. Having commissioned, by Gov. Curtin, as sheriff of York County, to fill a vacancy. He was a devout Methodist in religious faith, and few stood higher in the estimation of his associates in the Church.
Dr. Bressler married Sarah Ann Tonner, daughter of Rev. John N. Tonner, of Bellefonte, Center [Centre] County, a Methodist minister, who died at Canton, Ohio. There were both schoolmates of Gov. Andrew Curtin, the beloved war governor of Pennsylvania, and one of Dr. Bressler's children, by his request, was made his namesake. Dr. Charles H and Sarah Ann Bressler had children as follows: John T. is mentioned below; George B., of Lancaster, a prominent citizen and alderman there, married Ella M. Henry; Emma Barnet, Clara V. and Ella M., unmarried, live in York County; Wilbur C., a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College, married Molly Snyder [Smyser], of York, and practices there; Andrew Curtin, a traveling salesman, is a resident of York; Charles died in infancy. Mrs. Bressler died in 1868, at the age of thirty-eight.
John T. Bressler was born Feb. 25 1850, in Bellefonte, and was five years old when the family moved to York, where he received his early education. He studied under Rev. A. M. Eberly, at Cottage Hill College, where he graduated. Then he took up dentistry with his father at York, upon completing his course of study removed to Upper Allen Township, and has practiced his profession at Shepherdstown ever since. For seven years Dr. Bressler has been justice of the peace and he has served two terms as assessor of his township. In addition to being a skillful dental practitioner he has won a justifiable reputation as an investor, one of his designs being a wheel washer, a device for hubs to utilize lost motion. His covered shaft clip is now being introduced, and his latest invention is a combined roller and harrow, which is about perfected.
SOURCE: Biographical annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, Publication date: 1905.
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Spouse of Sarah Tonner - Married 1 May 1849 in Centre County, PA
Dr. Charles H Bressler, father of John T., was born at Mill Hall, Clinton Co., Pa., in 1821, and was graduated with the degree of M.D., at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1844. He also studied under the late Dr. Washington L. Atlee. From 1839 to 1849 he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Lancaster, and he practiced dentistry and medicine at Bellefonte until 1855, when he removed to the city of York, resuming his profession there. Having commissioned, by Gov. Curtin, as sheriff of York County, to fill a vacancy. He was a devout Methodist in religious faith, and few stood higher in the estimation of his associates in the Church.
Dr. Bressler married Sarah Ann Tonner, daughter of Rev. John N. Tonner, of Bellefonte, Center [Centre] County, a Methodist minister, who died at Canton, Ohio. There were both schoolmates of Gov. Andrew Curtin, the beloved war governor of Pennsylvania, and one of Dr. Bressler's children, by his request, was made his namesake. Dr. Charles H and Sarah Ann Bressler had children as follows: John T. is mentioned below; George B., of Lancaster, a prominent citizen and alderman there, married Ella M. Henry; Emma Barnet, Clara V. and Ella M., unmarried, live in York County; Wilbur C., a graduate of the Baltimore Dental College, married Molly Snyder [Smyser], of York, and practices there; Andrew Curtin, a traveling salesman, is a resident of York; Charles died in infancy. Mrs. Bressler died in 1868, at the age of thirty-eight.
John T. Bressler was born Feb. 25 1850, in Bellefonte, and was five years old when the family moved to York, where he received his early education. He studied under Rev. A. M. Eberly, at Cottage Hill College, where he graduated. Then he took up dentistry with his father at York, upon completing his course of study removed to Upper Allen Township, and has practiced his profession at Shepherdstown ever since. For seven years Dr. Bressler has been justice of the peace and he has served two terms as assessor of his township. In addition to being a skillful dental practitioner he has won a justifiable reputation as an investor, one of his designs being a wheel washer, a device for hubs to utilize lost motion. His covered shaft clip is now being introduced, and his latest invention is a combined roller and harrow, which is about perfected.
SOURCE: Biographical annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, Publication date: 1905.
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