Hello I am searching for any information on the name Kessler/Kesler. Dr. Archibald Kenton (A.K.) first practiced in Alderson and Hominy Falls, WV. He later moved to Hinton, where he opened a small hospital. March 1898 Archibald K. Kessler, M.D., opened a hospital in Clarksburg, WV on the corner of Water Street and Washington Avenue. In 1904 Dr. A.K. Kessler decided to come to Huntington to build a second institution. The result was the Kessler Hospital and Sanitarium, which was located on the southwest corner of 4th Ave. and 5th. St. In addition to the hospital, Dr. Kessler started a school of nursing in that same year. In 1907, fourteen women were graduated from the school. After Dr. Henry Hatfield stepped down as governor of WV in 1917, he went into partnership with Dr. Kessler at his new location built in 1910 and opening in 1911, at 1st. St. and 6th Ave. It was also in 1917 that the main three-story building was added. The Kessler-Hatfield Hospital, was renamed Huntington Memorial Hospital in 1928. Dr. A.K. Kessler and his wife Heneretta (Etta) Price lived at 326 W 6th Ave in 1944. They attended Fifth Ave Baptist Church and had four children, Opie Cecil Kessler b & d 1894, Noca/Nokah Kessler m. Festes Oval Marple, Archibald Donald Kessler m. Perk Vinson and Margie Kessler m. Lewis Gates Hoyt. I would be interested in exchanging with anyone working these Marple, Vinson or Hoyt lines that could give me more information. A brother of Dr. Archibald K. Kessler was Dr. Joseph Crane Kessler. He ran the Gauley Summit Sanitarium with another brother Dr. Daniel Peck Kessler in Cowen, WV. He moved to Huntington in 1914 to be associated with the Kessler-Hatfield Hospital for a number of years. He moved his practice to Hamlin, WV in 1926 where he remained active until 1940 when he retired because of ill health. Several items of historical interest belonging to him were donated to a medical museum in Huntington, WV. Joseph C. Kessler and his wife Delora Belle Kagy, had three children, Thelma Ruth Kessler, Arthur Kagy Kessler b1905 & d 1906, Terzah Elizabeth Kessler m. Wilbur Clair Dickson. Dr Joe and Delora also raised a nephew of Dr Joe's named James (Jim or Jimmy) Peck Kessler b. 1913. By fall of 1922 James P. Kessler he was living in Huntington, WV and attending the 5th Ave. Baptist Church and was still attending there in 1926. In April 1928 he graduated elementary school and in May 1933 he graduated from Carroll District High School, Hamlin, WV. Any information at all about James P. Kessler would be appreciated. No bits of information on any of the above would be to small and I would be most appreciative for any help. Thanks you, Karen Kessler Cottrill WV Kessler/Kesler/Keslar Family Historian I am making no claims that the above information is correct and should not be posted as so. This is being given as personal information to be used for further research and not all has been documented.