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Marriage record, Leamington, Essex Co., ON, from Mary Crandall's site:
002760 ­81 Edwin FOSTER, 27, Mersea, Mersea, farmer, s/o William Henry FOSTER & Sarah A CROW to Mary Hannah DRESSER, 18, Mersea, Mersea, d/o William DRESSER & Racheal WIPER; wit Coustare BENSON & J J E HENDERSON on 1 June 1881 in Leamington.

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...
     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.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 415-416:
Edwin Foster, son of William Henry Foster, of Mersea township, is a well-known and properous agriculturist of Tilbury West, where he has been actively at work for a quarter of a century. He was born on Talbot Street, in Mersea township, and his education was all acquired under the primitive conditions incident to the old-time log schoolhouse. He remained at home with his parents, assisting in the work of the home farm until he attained his majority, when his father purchased for him a tract of one hundred acres on the township line of Tilbury West, near the village of Staples. His first efforts in making this a home were expended in the erection of a log house, and then he began to clear the land for cultivation. Under his father's careful tuition he had acquired a practical knowledge of the work before him, and he started systematically to work. As his land became better adapted to the plow, and the financial returns for his labors more abundant, he made extensive improvements, the log cabin being replaced by a substantial and commodious brick dwelling, costing about $2,500, and the original outbuildings gave way to modern structures. He is industrious and thrifty, and the neat appearance of his farm is but tangible evidence of his methodical habits. The success he has attained has been well deserved.
     In Mersea township, Mr. Foster married Mary Hannah Dresser, daughter of the late George Dresser. To this union has come one son Orland, born Sept. 6, 1884, now attending high school. Mrs. Foster is a lady of refined taste, and an artist of ability. She is devoted to her home, and much of her husband's success may be attributed to her sympathy and co-operation. Both Mr. and Mrs. Foster are members of the Methodist Church at Staples, and are active in the work, he being a trustee and steward of the Church, while Mrs. Foster was superintendent of the Sunday-school one year, and is assistant this year, and is also a most efficient teacher in the Sunday-school. Mr. Foster is a school trustee at Staples, and he takes a keen interest in all progressive measures, being ever ready with time and means to do a good citizen's duty in improving and advancing his town and county.

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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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Mary Hannah Dresser ca 1863-