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LORENZ SEIFERT
A trusted employee of the Wagner
Leather Company who holds the unusual record of almost a half century’s
continuous service with this concern, is Lorenz Seifert, an esteemed citizen of
San Joaquin County since the early days of 1870. Mr. Seifert is a native of Bavaria, Germany,
born there April 1, 1851. His farther,
Bernhardt Seifert, was a fruit grower and a cloth manufacturer who married
Barbara Krimm, Lorenz being the second oldest of
their nine children, only three of whom are now living. Besides Lorenz there is Bernhardt, who lived
in Germany and a sister, Mrs. Roth, who resides adjoining our subject. Reared in the farming district, where he
received a good education in the local schools, the early years of his life
were spent in various occupations, in the meat business, on farms and in a
furnace factory, and traveling on the road for the latter.
In June, 1870, Mr. Seifert came to
the United States and located at Buffalo, New York, where he worked in a
brickyard under December before coming to California. For several years after arriving at Stockton
he worked for the Pioneer Tannery, and in 1874 he entered the employ of the
Wagner Leather Company. He learned all
the branches of the tanning business and became skilled and proficient in the
handling of leather, so that for close to half a century he has been one of the
company’s most capable and appreciated employees, still active in its business.
In Stockton, in December, 1877, Mr.
Seifert was married to Miss Lena Fetters, born in Bavaria, and they reared a
fine family of children, all upright, industrious citizens and assets to the
communities where they reside. They
are: Mrs. Lena Eldringham
of Acampo has one child; Elizabeth, the wife of Walter Templeton of Stockton,
is the mother of two children. Gussie,
Mrs. Joseph Lynch of San Francisco; Dora is the wife of Henry Green, a
contractor of Stockton, and they are the parents of two children: Mrs. Anna Ellis of Stockton, and one son,
Christopher Seifert, is also with the Wagner Leather Company. Beloved by her family and many friends, Mrs.
Seifert passed away in 1914. In the
early years of his residence here Mr. Seifert was a member of the Turnverein,
and he is now affiliated with the Druids.
In religious circles he gives his support to the German Lutheran Church,
contributing generously to its worthy causes.
In 1876 he bought his lot at 1228 East Oak Street and built the
comfortable residence, where he has resided ever since. He has built several other places which he
has disposed of.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
630. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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