Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Miessler, C F Otto, M D 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Dr. C. F. Otto Miessler, who in the practice of his profession has shown 
intimate and accurate knowledge of the principles of medicine and surgery, 
making continued advancement through his broad study and research, was born in 
Gratiot county, Michigan, in 1858. His father, E. G. H. Miessler, a native of 
Germany, is a retired physician now living in Batavia, Illinois, at the age of 
eighty-one years. He came to the United States about 1848, locating near 
Saginaw, Michigan. He was a graduate of the Heidelburg College of Germany and 
having studied for the ministry was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran 
church, subsequent to which time he was sent to the United States by the 
church to do missionary work among the Chippewa Indians. He spent about twelve 
years with that tribe, doing effective labor toward civilization as well as 
moral development. Determining to enter the medical profession, he was 
graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago and entered upon the 
practice of his profession in that city in 1873, there remaining until 1898, 
when he retired. He was a successful physician of wide and varied learning and 
his life has been one of signal usefulness to his fellowmen. He holds 
membership in the Evangelical Lutheran church. His wife, who in her maidenhood 
was Caroline Hunning, was born in Germany and died in 1871 at the age of forty-
three years. They were the parents of five children, of whom three are living: 
Dr. Miessler, of this review; Herman, a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran 
church at Columbus, Nebraska; and Frederick, a minister of the same 
denomination at Batavia, Illinois. Dr. Miessler attended the common schools of 
his native town, also Concordia College at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he 
pursued a classical course and was graduated in 1876. In the fall of the 
following year he entered Hahnemann Medical College and completed a course in 
1880. In the autumn of that year he entered upon the active practice of his 
profession in connection with his father in Chicago, where he remained until 
the spring of 1883, since which time he has been located in Crete. He has 
achieved a more than ordinary measure of success, due in large measure to the 
fact that he keeps in touch with the progress of the profession through broad 
reading and study, thus continually promoting his skill and ability. In 1895 
he pursued the course of orificial surgery under Dr E. H. Pratt, of Chicago. 
In 1888 Dr. Miessler was married to Miss Caroline Wilkening, who was born in 
Crete township in 1861, a daughter of John and Mary Wilkening, who came from 
Germany at an early day and settled on a farm in Crete township. He died 
December 24, 1906, at the age of eighty-six years and six months, after a 
residence of fifty-five years in that township. He was a prosperous man with 
splendid business qualifications, and during the five and a half decades in 
which the farm was in his possession there was never a mortgage upon it. Unto 
Dr. and Mrs. Miessler have been born three children: Minna, Herbert T. and 
Erich C. The parents are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church and in 
politics the Doctor is an earnest republican. He is also a member of the 
Clinical Society of Hahnemann College, of the Illinois Homeopathic Society and 
the American Institute of Homeopathy. His home is a handsome residence, which 
he owns and which is an indication of his life of usefulness and of success. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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