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Seiberling, A.G. -b.1865 Ohio, s/o Monroe & Sarah L. (Miller) Seiberling

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Seiberling, A.G. -b.1865 Ohio, s/o Monroe & Sarah L. (Miller) Seiberling

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 11:11AM GMT
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Seiberling, Miller, Tate
Seiberling, A.G. -b.1865 Ohio, son of Monroe & Sarah L. (Miller) Seiberling

from a book on found on HeritageQuestOnline.com – not in my line as far as I know

Title: Indiana and Indianans: a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt
City of Publication: Chicago
Publisher: American Historical Society
Date: 1919
Page Count: 2610
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ill., facsims., maps, ports.
Reel/Fiche Number: Genealogy and local history; LH12054)
Subject Headings: Indiana -- History
Indiana -- Biography.
Indiana

A.G. Seiberling of Kokomo, is a member of a prominent family of manufacturers and business executives known all over the middle west, but especially at Akron, Ohio, where the name Seiberling is synonymous with a large part of the great rubber and other industrial enterprises which give that city its unique fame.

It was on a farm in Summit County, Ohio, not far from Akron, that A.G. Seiberling was born January 4, 1865. His parents were Monroe and Sarah L. (Miller) Seiberling, both now deceased. Monroe Seiberling lived on a farm in Summit County until his 30th year, and after that took an active part in some of the large business enterprises controlled and directed by his family and associated in Akron.

The Seiberlings had among other interests a controlling share in several strawboard factories, and it was for the purpose of organizing the Kokomo Strawboard Company that Monroe Seiberling came to Kokomo in 1888. He was here two years in that business, and then promoted and organized the Diamond Plate Glass Company. In 1895 when this was absorbed by the Pittsburg Glass Company, he removed to Peoria and built the plant of the Peoria Plate Glass Company. Five years later, he established a similar plant at Ottawa, Illinois.

For many years, he was widely known for his enterprise in promoting and building large industrial concerns. Thus his name belongs in a group of Manufacturers and business organizers in which men of the Seiberling name have long been so prominent. Monroe Seiberling was a republican, a Knight Templar Mason, and had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living.

A.G. Seiberling grew up at Akron, attended public school there, and spent one term in Buchtel College. His first business service was an office boy with the Akron Strawboard Company. He was bookkeeper of that concern one year, and then was appointed manager and treasurer of the Ohio Strawboard Company at Upper Sandusky. In 1887 he came to Kokomo, and was treasurer of the Diamond Plate Glass Company until 1895.

For a time he was connected with the Pittsburg Glass Company as general purchasing agent and was associated with his father in promoting and establishing the Peoria Rubber Company, and was its manager and treasurer five years. He was similarly connected with the plate glass plant at Ottawa, Illinois, but in 1905 returned to Kokomo and became secretary and treasurer of the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company. He was with that company five and a half years. Since then, Mr. Seiberling has been general manager of the Haynes Automobile Company, one of the largest industries of its kind in Indiana.

He is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Mohamed Temple of Peoria, Illinois, and is affiliated with the Elks. He is a member of the Chicago Athletic Association, and a director of the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Seiberling is a republican and affiliated with the Lutheran Church. He married Miss Anna Tate, of Kokomo, on July 3, 1889.

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