Marshall-Leavenworth County KS Archives Biographies.....Hessel, Clement Theodore 1848 - 1906
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CLEMENT THEODORE HESSEL.

    The late Clement Theodore Hessel, for years one of the best-known and most
substantial farmers in the immediate vicinity of Frankfort, this county, and who
died at his home on the east edge of that city on July 15, 1906, was a native of
the state of Wisconsin, born at Watertown, that state, April 20, 1848, a son of
Clement Hessel and wife, the former of whom was born in Germany of French
parentage. In his young manhood Clement T. Hessel came to Kansas and became a
stock buyer at Atchison, traveling out of there to all parts of the country
adjacent to that market, buying livestock. Before coming to Kansas, Mr. Hessel
had married in Wisconsin, Mary Lynch, of Columbus, that state, and who became
ill at her home in Atchison. He accompanied her back to her old home at
Columbus, where she died, leaving one child, a son, Frank, who is now living in
the West.

    Later Mr. Hessel returned to Kansas and eventually came to Marshall county,
locating at Frankfort, where, on January 7, 1890, he married Johanna Fox, who
was born at Brandywine, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1859, a daughter of Richard and
Johanna (Kellar) Fox, natives of Ireland, who came to this country in the days
of their youth and were married at Brandywine, Pennsylvania. In 1881 the Fox
family came to Kansas and settled on a farm in the northwest corner of
Vermillion township, this county, where they established their home, and where
Mr. Fox spent his last days, his death occurring on September 25, 1903. He was
born on September 21, 1838, and was therefore just past seventy-five years of
age at the time of his death. His widow later moved to Frankfort, where she
spent her last days, her death occurring on March 8, 1915. She was born in the
year 1832 and was therefore eighty-three years of age at the time of her death.
Richard Fox and his wife were the parents of six children, of whom Mrs. Hessel
was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow: Richard, who was a
railroad man and who died at his home in Atchison in 1904; Mrs. Charles Brady,
who lived on a farm on Irish creek in this county, is now deceased; Humphrey,
who lives at Frankfort; Julia, now employed at the Odd Fellow Home, who has
proved up on a homestead claim in the vicinity of Chugwater, in Laramie county,
Wyoming, and Thomas, who is farming the old Fox home place in the northwest
corner of Vermillion township.

    After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hessel rented a quarter-section farm on
the eastern edge of Frankfort, where they established their home, and six months
later bought the place. There Mr. Hessel continued farming until his death in
1906. He made extensive improvements on the place and his family now has a
splendid home there, having continued to make that their place of residence
since his death. Mr. Hessel was a very energetic and progressive farmer, his
operations being carried on in accordance with modern methods of farming, and he
did very well, so that his family was left quite well circumstanced at the time
of his death. He was a member of the Catholic church, as is his widow, and their
children have been reared in that faith.

    To Clement .T. and Johanna (Fox) Hessel four children were born, namely:
Clement Joseph, born on May 14, 1894, who is a graduate of the high school at
Frankfort; Anna Regina, who on February 8, 1911, married John Thomas Ahern, of
this county, and has two children, Eugene Arthur, born on September 19, 1913,
and Justin Hessel, May 19, 1916; William Richard, born on November 7, 1895, who
was graduated from the Frankfort high school, and Arthur Gerald, December 16,
1899, who also is a graduate of the Frankfort high school. Mrs. Hessel has a
very pleasant home on the outskirts of Frankfort and has ever taken a proper
part in the general social activities of the community of which she has been a
member since the days of her young womanhood.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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