Dresser family.

Prominent Springfield, Illinois, family descended from Rev. Charles Dresser, the first Episcopal rector of St. Paul's parish in Springfield.

The Dresser family immigrated to Springfield from Virginia in 1838. Rev. Dresser was the minister who married Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, and later sold his home on 8th and Jackson Streets in Springfield to the Lincolns. In 1855 Rev. Dresser became a faculty member at Jubilee College near Peoria, Illinois, where he taught for a few years. Rev. Dresser and his wife Louisa Withers Dresser were the parents of eleven children, one of whom was Dr. Thomas W. Dresser, a physician to Mary Todd Lincoln in her final illness. Dr. Dresser and his wife Margaret Doremus Dresser had one daughter, Katherine. She married the Rev. John Chanler White, Episcopal bishop of Springfield from 1924 to 1947.