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T C Esser
Theodore Clemens Esser, president of the T.C. Esser Company, was engaged in the manufacture and distribution of paint in Milwaukee for more than half a century. The firm also handled all kinds of glass, including stained glass for churches, and did vitrolite and metal store front construction work. He is the great-grandfather of Mark J. Seitz, bishop of the Diocese of El Paso.
== History ==
His father had come from Germany in young manhood and settled on a farm in Wisconsin, but he always suffered from ill health and left the farm to establish his home in Aurora, where Theodore Clemens Esser was born February 14, 1871. The family numbered eight children, and because of the father’s inability to work much of the time it was necessary that Theodore C. and some of the other children should early provide for their own support.
Educational opportunities were necessarily limited and when but twelve years of age Theodore C. Esser had to put aside his textbooks. He sought and obtained a position in a paint shop, where he was paid a wage of fifty cents per day, but he there gained his initial knowledge of the business in which he was destined to progress to the point of notable success. After a year he entered the employ of the W. S. Frazier Road Cart Company of Aurora, large manufacturers of sulkies, road carts, buggies and other horse-drawn vehicles. While there he learned the nature of colors and the methods of grinding and mixing them, working for many hours a day at a stone slab with a flat bottomed conical stone. Working at various phases of the business in time he became an expert carriage painter and when sixteen years of age he was earning nine dollars a week. It was about this time that his father died.
At the age of twenty Theodore C. Esser was a full-fledged painter, engaged on piece work that brought him from $18 to $27 per week. He next contracted to do a painting job for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company in Chicago and when he finished the work four months later he became a roof-slater at Clinton, Iowa, still working for the railroad company. In 1892 he decided to visit Milwaukee, where he had a sister living, and find out what kind of a city it was. Within a few days he had secured employment - a painting job – with the Milwaukee Buggy Company, but when a week had passed he was called home to Aurora through the serious illness of his mother. When he returned a little later he brought with him his wife, for during the absence from Milwaukee he had married Miss Lena Gengler of Aurora. He again found employment with the Milwaukee Buggy Company, but the pay was only seven dollars and a half per week and feeling that he could do better at piece work he arranged with the company to finish six hundred gears and wheels for a stipulated sum, and in that way earned from twenty-five to thirty dollars per week. Thus step by step he advanced toward the goal of success, although not all days in his active career were equally bright. After doing contract work until the fall of 1893 Mr. Esser took sixty dollars that he had saved, bought some equipment for painting and established a business of his own at Thirty-third and Cherry streets in a room above a blacksmith shop.
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