Seiberling, Nathan & Catherine (Peters) -parents of John Frederick Seiberling, who m. Catherine Miller
also Monroe (married Sarah Miller)
and Columbus (married Sarah Miller)
from a book found on HeritageQuestOnline.com -not in my line as far as I know
Title: Akron and Summit County
Authors: Grismer, Karl Hiram
City of Publication: Akron, Ohio
Publisher: Summit County Historical Society
Date: 1952
Page Count: 831
Notes: Date of publication suggested by OCLCQ in OCLC
"Biographies": p. [647]-821
Reproduction of original in the Newberry Library
Includes bibliographical references (p. [822]) and index
ill., maps, ports.
Reel/Fiche Number: (Genealogy and local history; LH14656)
Akron and Summit County, Ohio
Nathan Seiberling, progenitor of the Seiberling family in Summit County, was born in Linnville, Lehigh County, Pa., April 14, 1810, the son of John and Catherine (Bair) Seiberling, and a descendant of Michael Seiberling, who emigrated to this country from Swabia, Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1741.
Nathan attended German and English schools until he was 15 years old when he began learning the trade of shoemaker. On December 29, 1829, he was married to Catherine Peters, also a native of Lehigh County, who inherited $900 about the time of her marriage. This sum, a small fortune in those days, greatly aided the young couple in getting a start in life.
Two years later the Seiberlings decided to “go West to Ohio" where some of their former neighbors had already gone. On April 15, 1831, they left Linnville with their first child, a girl, accompanied by Peter Hartman and his family. The journey was made with two horses and a covered wagon, required 25 days, and was completed May 10. Three weeks later they moved onto a 100-acre tract in Norton Township which they bought for $600. They built a log cabin and made it their home for the next nine years.
Their land was heavily covered with virgin forests but within a year they had five acres sufficiently cleared to plant corn, potatoes, and wheat. To get money for the necessities of life while his farm was being developed, Mr. Seiberling followed his shoemaker’s trade, making and repairing boots and shoes for neighboring settlers.
In 1839 Mr. Seiberling completed a sawmill, built on Hubbard Creek, which ran through his property. This mill was the principle source of revenue which in after years made him financially independent and enabled him to buy enough adjoining lands to give him a farm of more than 500 acres. He also bought 1,000 acres in Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. Seiberling had fifteen children, two of whom died in infancy. Those who lived were:
1. Kittie (Mrs. Paul Wall)
2. John Frederick (married to Catherine Miller)
3. James H. (married to Elizabeth Baughman)
4. Sarah (Mrs. J.H. Harter)
5. Monroe (married to Sarah Miller)
6. Frank (died at 16)
7. Mary (Mrs. Joseph Kemmerer)
8. Eliza (Mrs. Sherman E. Baughman)
9. Charles (married to Jerusha Betz)
10. N. Septimus (married to Joseva Meyers)
11. Columbus (married to Sarah Miller)
12. Milton A. (married to Fayetta Johnson)
13. Gustavus (married to Julia Kulp).
Mr. Seiberling died November 3, 1889. Mrs. Seiberling on February 24, 1895.