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Information from Essex County Message Board, Ancestry.com.

1861 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-6:
Dresser William, M, Married, married 1856, 27, born U Canada, W Methodist, Farmer;
Rachel, F, Married, married 1856, 27, born U Canada, W Methodist;
George, M, Single, 5, born U Canada, W Methodist;
Alwilda, F, Singe, 3, born U Canada, W Methodist;
Thomas, M, Single, 1, born U Canada, W Methodist.

1901 personal census, Mersea Twp, Essex Co., ON, K1-7:
Dresser Thos Jr., M, Married, 30 June 1860, 40, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Carpt'r Farmer;
Ena, F, wife, 26 Aug 1860, 40, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Gordon, M, son, Single, 21 Nov 1882, 18, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth, Farmer's Son;
Floyd, M, son, Single, 10 Feb 1886, 14, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Erman, M, son, Single, 16 July 1888, 12, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Erma, F, daughter, Single, 16 July 1888, 12, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Mable, F, daughter, Single, 14 July 1892, 8, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth;
Edwin, M, son, Single, 24 Sept 1898, 2, born Ont, origin: English, Can, Meth.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 480-482:
Charles Minnis, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Mersea township ... was born in Mersea township, Feb. 3, 1846, and is of Irish extraction, his father, John Minnis, having been born Feb. 2, 1818, in County Down, Ireland.
     Mr. Minnis was married, in Mersea township, Feb. 12, 1869, to Hannah Dresser, who was born in Mersea township April 25, 1848, a daughter of George and Rose H. (Adams) Dresser, and one child blessed this union, Oscar, born May 7, 1871, who died from diphtheria Sept. 1, 1879. He was buried in Lake View cemetery. Mrs. Hannah (Dresser) Minnis died Aug. 22, 1904 and was buried in the Lake View cemetery...
     The Dresser family, of Mersea township, is one of the oldest of this section of County Essex, where its representatives have for over sixty years been identified with the growth and progress of that community. The founder of the name in Mersea township was George Dresser, who was a native of Yorkshire, England, a son of Thomas, who lived and died in his native home, stanch in his support of the Church of England.
     George Dresser, before mentioned, grew to manhood in England, and there received a good solid education. He worked as a farmer on his father's home, and married Rose Hannah Adams in 1831. From time to time friends and relatives of young Dresser had crossed to America, and appeared to succeed, and, longing for a wider field in which to found a home, he and his wife emigrated to America, in a sailing vessel, landing in Quebec after a long and very tiresome voyage. From Quebec they made their way to Ontario, they came to the County of Kent, living there until 1841, when they removed to County Essex, and settling in Mersea township on a tract of 100 acres they laid the foundations of a sterling old family, beginning their pioneer life in a log house. With his brave wife to help and cheer him, George Dresser commenced clearing his land, and in time his sons also assisted. Later, a brick house replaced the primitive log one, and substantial buildings were put up about the farm. Upon this property, redeemed from the wilderness by such steadfast endeavor, George Dresser lived out his life, and died at the advanced age of ninety-one years, wealthy, respected and beloved. In politics he was a strict Conservative, and he was called upon to serve in the township council, as well as to fill a number of other township offices, his keen judgment and ability making him peculiarly fitted for public office.
     George Dresser was a member of the Methodist Church, and took a deep interest in all church matters, living up to his creed in his daily life, and endeavoring to influence others to a higher way of living... His good wife also died on the homestead, and both were interred in Lake View cemetery. She, too, was a devout member of the Methodist Church, and was beloved by a wide circle of friends. The following named children were born to Mr. and Mrs. George Dresser: William is mentioned below. Christopher died at the age of twenty years. Thomas, who is now engaged in farming on the 3rd Concession, in Mersea township, married Mary Jane Minnis, daughter of the late John Minnis, and sister of Charles Minnis, of Mersea township, and they have a child, Darius, a farmer of Gosfield township. Hannah married Charles Minnis, of Mersea township. Lewis died in young manhood. Everett is on the homestead. Edith married David Nebitt, of Leamington. Ivan is at home. Margaret married James McCraken, of Mersea township.
     William Dresser, the oldest son of George Dresser, was born in eastern Ontario, and came to the County of Essex with his parents, locating in Mersea township, where he began working at an early age. There he grew to manhood, and when he had attained maturity located on the 3rd Concession, on the farm now owned and operated by his brother, Thomas Dresser. He exchanged the homestead farm for the one he owned, and upon it died in 1896; he is interred in Lake View cemetery. He was a firm Methodist in religion, in politics a Conservative, and was a man of force and character, very highly esteemed.
     While living in Mersea township William Dresser married Rachel Wiper, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Wilkinson) Wiper, and she survives, at the age of seventy years, living upon the Dresser homestead. She is a member of the Methodist Church. The following children were born to them: George, a machinist of Wheatley, Ont.; Alwida, who married Dempster Wales, of Mersea township; Thomas, a farmer of Mersea township; Mary Hannah, who married Edwin Foster, of Tilbury West; Christopher, of Middlesex; Laura, who married William Kidd Wilkinson, of Mersea township; Ella, who married John Wales, of Mersea township; Rose Etta, who married Finley Robinson, of Mersea township; William Henry, on the homestead (he married Vina Armstrong); Howard N., a resident of Gosfield South; and Cora, who married Albert Smith, of the 5th Concession, Mersea township.

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George Dresser ca 1799-   Rose Hannah Adams ca 1815-   Thomas Wiper ca 1790-   Mary Wilkinson ca 1805-
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William Dresser ca 1834-1896   Rachel Wiper 1834-
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Thomas Dresser 1860-