 Esser Company and 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.Theodore C. Esser is the great-grandfather of Mark J. Seitz, bishop of the Diocese of El Paso.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.