George Kessler

George Edward Kessler was an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect.

George E. Kessler was born in Frankenhausen, Germany, to Edward Carl Kessler and Adolphe Clotilde Zeitsche Kessler on July 16, 1862. In 1865 the family, including Georges sister, Fredericka Antionette Louisa, emigrated to the United States. After living briefly in New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin, the family ultimately settled in Dallas, Texas, where Georges father and uncle invested in a cotton plantation. His father died in 1878. After his fathers death, George, at the age of sixteen, worked as a cashboy at Sanger Brothers Dry Goods.

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