Biography of John Seiler, pages 586 / 587.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Seiler, one of the most prominent farmers and stock-raisers in 
Fairfield Township, was born in Lebanon County, Pa., 15, 1815, a son of 
Mathias and Barbara (Curry) Seiler, natives of Pennsylvania, of German 
descent.  In 1832 his parents moved to Wayne County, Ohio, where his mother 
died at the age of fifty-three years, and his father aged ninety-three years.    
He was reared on a farm, but his father being a stonemason he learned the trade 
in his youth, and upon reaching his majority went into business with his 
father, continuing four years.  He subsequently followed his trade alone 
till 1864, when he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought the farm of 
eighty-five acres where he has since lived, in Fairfield Township.  His 
land is all well cultivated and his residence and farm buildings are among 
the best in the township.  He has always been an industrious frugal man, and 
as a result has a good home and is surrounded by all the comforts of life.  
He was married Oct. 4, 1838, to Lucetta, daughter of Michael and Catherine 
(Fisher) Reinoehl, a native of Lebanon County, Pa.  They are the parents of 
five children---Caroline, wife of Samuel Gallatin, of Clark County, Ill,; 
Cyrus, Treasurer of Elkhart County, Ind.; Michael, Professor of mathematical, 
physical and political geography in Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute, 
Ind., from which he graduated in 1876; Franklin, a graduate of Eastman College,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is by profession a bookkeeper and teacher; and John Henry, 
a graduate of the College of Medicine in Michigan University, Ann Arbor, in the 
class of 1885.

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Auburn, Indiana
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