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Whiting, “Paper-Making in New England,” 309; Gravell et al., American Watermarks, 235.
Whiting, William. “Paper-Making in New England.” In The New England States: Their Constitutional, Judicial, Educational, Commercial, Professional and Industrial History, edited by William T. Davis, vol. 1, pp. 303–333. Boston: D. H. Hurd, 1897.
Gravell, Thomas L., George Miller, and Elizabeth Walsh. American Watermarks: 1690–1835. 2nd ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.
Dye, “Frederick Kesler Papers, 1837–1899.”
Dye, Della L. “Frederick Kesler Papers, 1837–1899.” Unpublished finding aid, 1975, for collection held at Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Online version at Archives West, Orbis Cascade Alliance. Accessed 15 May 2017. archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv16976.
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Kesler, “Brief Sketch,” 4–5.
Kesler, Frederick. “A Brief Sketch & Life of Bp F. Kesler.” Frederick Kesler, Papers, 1837– 1899. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Kesler, “Brief Sketch,” 2–5.
Kesler, Frederick. “A Brief Sketch & Life of Bp F. Kesler.” Frederick Kesler, Papers, 1837– 1899. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
The need for additional mills in southeastern Iowa was demonstrated in a nineteenth-century history of Lee County, Iowa, that recorded accounts of people waiting “a week at a time” in order to grind their wheat or corn at one of the first mills built there in 1835. Kesler was an experienced millwright; he had constructed mills in Ohio, Iowa Territory, and Mississippi. (History of Lee County, Iowa, 399; Kesler, “Brief Sketch,” 1–4; “Programme,” in Autobiographies, Frederick Kesler, Papers, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.)
The History of Lee County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., a Biographical Directory of Citizens. . . . Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1879.
Kesler, Frederick. “A Brief Sketch & Life of Bp F. Kesler.” Frederick Kesler, Papers, 1837– 1899. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Kesler, Frederick. Papers, 1837–1899. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Kesler’s brother had apparently moved away from the area. When Kesler and his five siblings were orphaned in 1821 or 1822, they were separated and placed in different homes. Of his siblings, he wrote in his autobiography, “We grew up amongst strangers & to a verry great exstent became strangers to each oather & as we grew up scatering over the cuntry & thus becoming lost to each oather.” It is unclear which of his brothers—Peter or Jacob—Kesler referred to in his letter to JS. (Kesler, Autobiography, 1.)
Kesler, Frederick. Autobiography, circa 1886. CHL. MS 10857.