Background
Gessler, Theodore was born on October 16, 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Christian H. and Christina (Schaeffer) Gessler.
Gessler, Theodore was born on October 16, 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Christian H. and Christina (Schaeffer) Gessler.
Bachelor of Arts, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1864, Master of Arts, 1867. Bucknell Theological Seminary, 1863-1864. (Doctor of Divinity, Bucknell, 1883).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1864. Pastor Pilgrim Church, New York, 1864-1868, 1st Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1868-1879, Central Church, Brooklyn, 1880-1886, Grace Church, New York, 1886-1897. Retired, but friends erected a church at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, and pastor same, October since 1910.
President Board of Council, Borough of Hopatcong, 1897-1913.
Private Company A, 28th Regiment Pennsylvania Volumes, during emergency of Lee’s invasion. President New Jersey Baptist South.S. Union, 1870-1879.
Secretary Baptist Congress, 1895-1912. Chaplain Crescent Lodge F.&Master of Arts, New York, since 1880.
Republican.
Married Annie L. Sherborne, 1863 (died 1880). Married second, Georgie M. Edwards, December 1883.