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CARSON L. KISSELL.  A business establishment at Napoleon well and favorably known among the farmers and truck growers in Henry County is the produce and packing house plant owned by Carson L. Kissell at 502 East Clinton Street.  Mr. Kissell is an expert in the produce business, has been at it constantly since he was a boy and has not only handled a profitable business but has done much to stimulate production in his section of Henry County and has gathered and distributed to the world's markets many carloads every year.      His present plant was erected in 1907, and comprises a large warehouse and storage and packing building 90 feet long by 30 feet wide, with all the equipment necessary for the handling of produce and poultry.  He started in business at Napoleon in 1903 on Washington Street and was in that location until 1907.      Mr. Kissell came to Napoleon from Columbus Grove, where he gained his first experience in the produce business with his father at the age of twelve years, and afterwards operated independently.  He was born at Columbus Grove, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1882, was reared and educated there and in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, but both during his schooling and since has been a practical produce man for a period of twenty years.      His parents were Jacob and Rachel (Van Meter) Kissell, both natives of Ohio and of Pennsylvania stock.  The maternal grandparents were Jerry and Anna Kissell, who were natives of Pennsylvania, where they married, and were early settlers in Putnam County, Ohio, where they improved a good farm and spent their active lives.  Jerry Kissell died when about eighty years old and his wife about the same age.  He was in many ways a remarkable man, and at the age of seventy could lay out a corn furrow as straight as an arrow.  Jerry Kissell and wife in Pennsylvania were members of the Lutheran Church, but affiliated with the Christian denomination in Ohio.  He was a democrat.  Jacob Kissell was one of a family of four sons and one daughter, all of whom grew up and married and three of the sons are still living in Ohio.      Jacob Kissell spent his early life on a farm in Putnam County and was married in Allen County, Ohio, to Rachel Van Meter, who was of Pennsylvania parents and early settlers in Allen County, where they located near Rockport, and there James Van Meter and wife lived out the rest of their days on a farm.  They were active members of the Christian Church and in politics James Van Meter was a republican. After their marriage Jacob Kissell and wife spent many years on a farm in Putnam County, but afterwards he established a produce business at Columbus Grove, and is till living there and active in business at the age of fifty-eight.  His wife died on the old farm in 1902 aged fifty-six.  Both were members of the Christian Church, and James Kissell is a democrat and has served two terms in the city council.  He is also a member of the lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Of the children, Laura died after her marriage to Commodore Gwynn, who now lives at Ottawa, Ohio, with two children.  The second in age is Carson L.   James J.is a produce dealer at Columbus Grove and has a family of four sons and three daughters.  Heurtle T. is a pharmacist and druggist at Birmingham, Alabama, and is married but has no children.  Lizzie E. is the widow of Fielin Taylor who for a number of years was a commercial traveler and afterwards lived at Birmingham, Alabama, and Mrs. Taylor now lives at Columbus Grove with her son and daughter.      Carson L. Kissell in 1912 erected a beautiful eleven room brick house at the corner of Clinton and Castle streets in Napoleon, and in that attractive home enjoys at the comforts and pleasures of family life with his wife and four children.  He was married at Gomer, in Allen County, to Miss Isadore Clevenger.  She was born in Allen County in June, 1871, was married June 2, 1896, and died at her home in Napoleon Apr. 13, 1904.  Her grandparents were early settlers from Pennsylvania in Allen County, and spent their lives there, and her parents now reside on a farm at Gomer.  Mrs. Kissell was a member of the Christian Church.  Her town children Helen aged seventeen, and Ralph, aged thirteen, now reside with their grandparents in Gomer, Ohio, and attend school there.  For his second wife Mr. Kissell married Catherine Kalbe who was born in Napoleon, where her parents, Henry and Johanna Kalbe are still living.  Her parents were both natives of Germany and her father at one time served as county surveyor of Henry County.  Mr. and Mrs. Kissell have the following children:  Annetta, Juanita, Donald L. and Dorothy D.  The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Kissell is a democrat and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Napoleon Lodge No. 929 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 727

 

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